Difference between revisions of "Famous ultramarathon runners"
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<sort2>* [[Achim Heukemes]] | <sort2>* [[Achim Heukemes]] | ||
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* [[Ann Trason]], thirteen time Western States winner; holds numerous world records, including 100 mile (13:47:41 1991), 50m (5:40:18, 1991) , and 12 Hours (147.6k, 1991); American 100k record holder (7:00:48) | * [[Ann Trason]], thirteen time Western States winner; holds numerous world records, including 100 mile (13:47:41 1991), 50m (5:40:18, 1991) , and 12 Hours (147.6k, 1991); American 100k record holder (7:00:48) | ||
* [[Anne Riddle Lundblad]], former member, USA World 100k team; 2nd place 2005 World 100K [http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2006/03/usatf-ultrarunner-of-year-anne-riddle.html Interview] | * [[Anne Riddle Lundblad]], former member, USA World 100k team; 2nd place 2005 World 100K [http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2006/03/usatf-ultrarunner-of-year-anne-riddle.html Interview] | ||
Revision as of 17:41, 13 September 2012
<sort2>* Achim Heukemes
- Andy Jones
- Ann Trason, thirteen time Western States winner; holds numerous world records, including 100 mile (13:47:41 1991), 50m (5:40:18, 1991) , and 12 Hours (147.6k, 1991); American 100k record holder (7:00:48)
- Anne Riddle Lundblad, former member, USA World 100k team; 2nd place 2005 World 100K Interview
- Dr. Bernd Heinrich, US 100m track record holder (12:27:01), naturalist
- Bruce Fordyce, nine time Comrades Marathon winner; African 100K record holder (6:25:07)
- Carolyn Hunter-Rowe, multiple world record holder, including track 50K, 30M, 40M; two time World 100K champion
- Cavin Woodward
- Cliff Young, former winner Westfield Sydney to Melbourne; holds numerous world age records
- Constantin Santalov, three-time World 100K champion; considered to be one of the best 100K runners of all time
- Dave Warady, winner of the inaugural Trans-America Footrace
- Dick Collins, San Francisco Bay Area ultra legend, with over 1,000 races run
- Dipali Cunningham, champion multi-day race runner
- Don Choi, modern six day race pioneer
- Don Ritchie
- Hilary Walker, female ultrarunning pioneer, holds multiple world records; first female council member of IAU
- Edit Berces, world record holder, 24 hour treadmill; holds several Hungarian records
- Eleanor Adams Robinson, female ultrarunning pioneer, holds multiple world records
- Gordy Ansleigh, Western States pioneer, 'inventor' of the trail ultramarathon
- Jean-Paul Praet, European 100k record holder (6:15:30)
- Jesper Olsen, has run around the world in 22 months (2004-'05); won the Australian 6-days race (2004)
- Nikki Kimball, 2004 USA Outstanding Female Ultrarunner award winner; former member, USA World 100K team
- Oleg Kharitonov, 100 mile track world record holder
- Pam Reed, only woman to have won the Badwater Ultramarathon; former member, USA 24 hour team
- Rae Clark, holds US records for 24 hours (165.3 miles, 1990) and 100 mile road (12.12.19)
- Rimas Jakelaitis, champion multi-day race runner
- Rosie Swale-Pope, Round-the-world runner, started late 2003 in the UK, reached Alaska in 2005, continuing.
- Sandra Barwick, world record holder, 6 day track
- Scott Jurek, seven time Western States winner and record holder (15:36:27), and two time Badwater Ultra winner and record holder (24:36)
- Serge Girard, trans-continental runner
- Suprabha Beckjord 3100 mile race record holder
- Takahiro Sunada, 100k world record holder: 6:13:33 set in Tokyo, 1998
- Ted Corbitt, "father of American ultrarunning"; 1952 US Olympic team member; former American world record holder at various distances
- Tim Twietmeyer, five time Western States winner, 25-time Western States finisher Interview
- Tomoe Abe, 100k female world record holder (6:33:11)
- Yiannis Kouros, multi-day race legend, holder of numerous world records and world bests from 24 hours to 1,000m
- Karl Meltzer
- Dean Karnazes Author of Ultramarathon Man
- Scot Jurek 7 time winner of Western States and former holder of the US 24 hour track record.
- Mike Morton Current holder of the US 24 hour track record.</sort2>
