Yiannis Kouros
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Yiannis Kouros (born February 13, 1956 in Tripolis, Arcadia, Greece) is a Greek/Australian ultra marathon runner based in Melbourne. He is sometimes called the "Running God" or the "Pheidippides Successor". As of June 2006, Yiannis is undefeated in any continuous world-class ultra marathon competition over 100 miles. He holds every men's world record from 100 to 1,000 miles, from 200 to 1,600 km, and from 1 to 10 days. In 1991, Yiannis starred as Pheidippides in the movie A Hero's Journey about the history of marathon running.
Yiannis has also contributed many literary and musical works, including over 1,000 poems (several of which appear in his book, Symblegmata (Clusters)) and a book: The Six-Day Run of the Century.
Tributes to Yiannis come from the world over, including from the Indian ultrarunner Arun Bhardwaj who named his son Yiannis.
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[edit] World records
According to the International Association of Ultrarunners, on the 27 June 2005.
R = Road - T = Track - I = Indoor
[edit] Distance
| 100miles R | 11h 46min 37s |
| 1000km T | 5d 16h 17min 00s |
| 1000km R | 5d 20h 13min 40s |
| 1000miles R | 10d 10h 30min 36s |
[edit] Time races
| 12h R | 162.543km |
| 12h T | 162.400km |
| 24h T | 303.506km |
| 24h R | 290.221km |
| 48h T | 473.797km |
| 6days T | 1036.80km (25 November 2005 - not yet on the IAU website) |
| 6days R | 1028.370km |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Yiannis Kouros official page - while some pages are shown, many pages are still under construction
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