319.614 kilometers. That’s 198.599 miles. In at some point. Operating.
That’s simply what Lithuania’s Aleksandr Sorokin did in setting a brand new 24-hour world document of 319.614 kilometers/198.599 miles on the 24-Hour European Championships in Verona, Italy on September 17 and 18, 2022. That’s 7:15 per mile or 4:30 per kilometer for twenty-four straight hours.
Beforehand, on August 28-29, 2021, Sorokin broke Yiannis Kouros’s “unbreakable” 24-hour world document of 188.590 miles/303.506 kilometers by practically six kilometers with a distance of 192.251 miles/309.399 kilometers. (Submit-2021 24-hour world document interview) Simply over a yr later this weekend, he broke his personal document by greater than 10 kilometers, operating 198.599 miles (319.614 kilometers).

Aleksandr Sorokin en path to setting a 24-hour world document. Picture: Marius Antanaitis display seize from race video
For these of you unfamiliar with Aleksandr, take a look at our Aleksandr Sorokin touchdown web page, the place you possibly can study extra about this man who’s set the 100-kilometer world document, 100-mile world document, 12-hour world document, and 24-hour world document (some twice) all throughout the previous 17 months!