Yiannis Kouros
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Yiannis Kouros (born February 13, 1956 in Tripolis, Greece) is a Greek 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 the 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 |
| 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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