It was a record-setting 24 hours on the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Chinese language Taipei on Dec. 2, as Japan’s Miho Nakata broke the ladies’s world file by a mere 246 metres, recording 270.363 km (167.995 miles) within the interval.
Nakata averaged a tempo of 5 minutes and 20 seconds per kilometre (8:55/mile) throughout the race and solely beat the file by a little bit over half of a lap of the observe, which comes down to only over one minute. Nakata’s new mark surpasses the gap set by Camille Herron of 270.116 km (167.842 miles) on the final version of the championship in 2019.
Data are supposed to be damaged 🚀🌖!
Congratulations to Miho Nakata of Japan for breaking my @iaunews 24Hr World Report by 246m- new mark of 270.362 km 👏🇯🇵🌟! pic.twitter.com/mkrJ4pZqpA
— Camille Herron 🦸♀️ (@runcamille) December 2, 2023
Nakata was out entrance for many of the race, holding a spot of six kilometres on a two-kilometre (1.24 miles) loop via 12 hours. As time progressed, Nakata’s hole saved rising, beating the remainder of the ladies’s subject by 16 kilometres to win gold for Japan.
To place her new spectacular file in perspective, her distance was solely crushed by 4 males and would’ve positioned her fifth general. Nakata smashed her earlier greatest over the gap by 14 kilometres. That is her greatest end at an ultrarunning world championship, beforehand ending sixth on the 2022 IAU 100K World Championships.
Ukraine’s Olena Shevchenko took the silver with 254.463 km, whereas former ultrarunning world champion Patrycja Bereznowska of Poland took bronze (249.541 km).
Aleksandr Sorokin defends world title
Lithuanian ultrarunning star Aleksandr Sorokin efficiently defended his IAU 24-Hour World Championship title, profitable the boys’s race in 301.790 km. He was on a world file tempo via 18 hours however started to fall off the WR tempo with 5 hours to return.
Heading into the race, Sorokin was the favorite to win, however he went out extra conservatively than ordinary within the opening six hours. Sorokin took the lead after six hours and held on to win by over 9 kilometres, although he walked the final hour of the race.
Medalist of 2023 IAU 24H World Championships. The outcomes are below verification.
Ladies individually
1. NAKATA MIHO (JPN)
2. SHEVCHENKO OLENA (UKR)
3. PATRYCJA BEREZNOWSKA (POL)Males individually
1. Sorokin Aleksandr (LTU)
2. Zisimopoulos Fotios (GRE)
3. Tkachuk Andrii (UKR) pic.twitter.com/940UGTmMdQ— IAU (@iaunews) December 2, 2023
Fotios Zisimopoulos of Greece took second with 292.254 km, and Ukraine’s Andrii Tkachuk rounded out the rostrum with 284.540 km.
Sorokin holds the world file within the 24-hour self-discipline, setting the mark of 319.614 km on the 2022 IAU European Championships in Verona, Italy.
