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Starts May 2, 2004 at 12 NOON
Men
Ashprihanal Aalto,33, Helsinki, FIN
One of the best endurance runners in the world, Ashprihanal is ranked second alltime for 3100 miles (46 days 13 hours), has won the 700 mile race three times with a best of 9 days five hours, and has won the 3100 race two times(2000 and 2001). Ashprihanal has emerged victorious in the Six Day Race for the last two years as well, winning each race with supreme efforts on the last day. He has also hiked the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail in solo fashion, covering 60 km per day for up to twelve weeks. Ashprihanal works as a courier and delivery man back in Helsinki.Tsvetan Tsekov,23, Sofia, BUL
Last year Tsvetan finished second in the Ten Day with 622 miles and completed 901 miles in the 1000. In 2002 he won the 700 mile race for the men in 11 days 18 hours.Al Prawda,57, Brooklyn,NY USA
Ultra Al will be running and celebrating his 200th ultramarathon in this six day race. In a long and interesting racing career, Al has run over 500 miles for six days, over 224 miles for 48 hours( an indoor US best), and has even run 70 miles backwards.Urs Maurer,49,Oberageri, SUI
Urs has run 28 ultras in 25 years of running He makes his debut at six days. He has a best of 208 km(129 miles) for 24 hours.Uwe Postler,40, Innsbruck, AUT
Uwe will be running his first six day race.He has a best of 204 km(124 miles) for 48 hours.Peter Zuidema,36, Utrecht, NETH
Peter has been running for 17 years. His bests include 207 km(128 miles ) for 24 hours, and 263 km( 161 miles) for 48 hours.Felix Kainz,44, Berlin, GER
In only five years of running, Felix has run over 90 ultras, including 98 miles for 24 hours, and 560 km(346 miles) in seven days.Dejan Kakonji,35 Subotica, Serb.Mont.
In five years of running, Dejan has completed three multidays, his best being 1000 km (622 miles) for 12 days in 2001.Miroslav Pospisek,43, Prague, CZ
Miroslav has run 10 ultras in eight years of running. His best is 323 km(200 miles) for three days.Dragan Stojanovic,32, Belgrade, Serb.Mont.
Dragan has run three ultras in four years of running. This will be his first attempt at six days.Roman Dzierlatka,47, Bristol, CT USA
Roman has completed over 40 ultras, including four multidays in his 27 years of running. Last year he ran 255 miles in the Six Day.Barny McBride,39, Auckland, NZ
Barney has run 32 ultras, including 340 miles for six days(2001) and 180 km(111 miles) for 24 hours.Unnatishil Bravo, 46, Paris, FRA
Unnatishil has run 36 ultras in 24 years of running. his best includes 507 miles in the 2002 700 mile race.Aryavan Lanham,52, Perth, AUS
In 20 years of running, Aryavan has completed five multidays. His best total is 430 miles for 12 days.Peter Elliott,38, Melbourne, AUS
Peter will be making his multiday debut with this six day event. He has been running for three years.Krastin Vasilev, 24, Sofia,BUL
Krastin will be running his first multiday race in 12 years of running.Lucian Balmer,21, San Francisco,CA USA
Lucian is the youngest runner in the race, but has been training diligently for months.Mario Komak, 29, Bratislava, SLK
Mario has completed two ultras but has no multiday experience.Zoran Marinkovic,40, Leskovac, Serb.Mont.
Zoran has completed three ultras, with a best of 227 miles in six days.Standa Zubaty,32, Zlin, CZ
Standa will experience the baptism of fire, as this will be his first ultra after a few years of marathons.Janos Szeideman, 49, Pecs, HUN
Janos will also be running his first multiday after having run a few 12 hour ultras.Women
Dipali Cunningham,45, AUS
Dipali is one of the world's best women ultra-distance runners. She has won 14 of the 17 multiday events she has entered since 1992, including three overall victories. In the spring of 2001 she set a new women's world record on the road for six days with 510 miles, defeating all the men in that race. In 2001 she ran 700 miles in 9 days 11 hours, the third fastest all-time for women. She has completed the 700 mile race eight times. In 1998 she set a women's world best on the road for six-days with 504 miles, despite heavy rains at Wards Island Park. In 1999 she won the 700 mile race overall in 10 days, 21 hours. She is ranked third in the world for 700 miles, and third for 1000 miles, having dominated the women's 1000 mile race in 1997 in 13 days, 20 hours. She has won all six Six-Day titles in our spring-time event. She also likes shorter, faster races as well, having dominated the Sri Chinmoy 47 Mile Invitational 17 times for the women.Sigrid Eichner, 63, Berlin, GER
One of the most prolific ultrarunners, Sigrid has completed over 321 ultras, including over 200 100- km races, several multidays and even 44 stages of the Trans-Europe Race last summer( Lisbon to Moskow) running over 3000 km.She held an age group WR w-55 for 100 km in 1996-(9:27:29). She looks forward to the Six Day .Lunthita Duthely,40, Hialeah, Fl, USA
Lunthitha will be attempting her second multiday. Last year she ran 253 miles for the six day. She has been running 13 years.Elke Sobotta, 44, Hufingen,GER
In eleven years of running, Elke has completed three ultras, with a best of 57 miles for 12 hours.Kushali Tarantsova,37, Kiev, UKR
Kushali will be making her first multiday race this year, after having run three ultras after ten years of running.Magdalena Horbinger, 40,Vienna, AUT
After seven years of running, Magdalena will be attempting her first multiday. She has three ultras to her credit.Danica Plechlova,28, Bratislava, SLK
Danica has been running seven years, and will be attempting her first multiday.Srotaswiini Klandt, 64, Jamaica, NY GER
Aveteran of 25 years running, Srotaswini has run three multidays and several long relay runs. She has a best of 300 miles for six days in 1986. In 2002 she ran 227 miles in the Six Day race.World Road Bests
10-Day
Men: Yiannis Kouros, AUS - 964 miles(1988 - split)
Women: Sandy Barwick, NZ- 807 miles(1991- split)6-Day
Men: Yiannis Kouros, AUS-639 miles (1988 - split)
Women : Dipali Cunningham,AUS- 510 miles (2001)
Race RecordsThis event
10-Day
Men: Rimas Jakelaitis, LIT-901 miles (2001)
Women: Dipali Cunningham, AUS-723 miles (1996)
6-Day Men: David Luljak, USA -541miles (1998)
Women: Dipali Cunningham, AUS- 510 miles (2001) -
About the author:
Rupantar has been the race director of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team since 1985, having been asked by Sri Chinmoy to serve in that capacity. As well as working on the big races the US Marathon Team organise each year - the 3100 Mile Race and the Six and 10 Day Race - he also spends a considerable amount of time archiving the Marathon Team's 40 year history on this website.Results (PDF Download)
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Starts April 28, 12 NOON
Men Rimas Jakelaitis,49, Brooklyn, NY LIT
The event record-holder and three-time champion, Rimas returns to continue his luck at the Ten Day. In 2002 he won the Ten Day with 701 miles. In 2001 he set the event record with 901 miles; on the way he reached 600 miles for six days, one of only 11 men to have ever achieved this milestone in history. In 2000 he set an event record and won the Ten Day Race with 745 miles, then came back in the fall to set two world records in the Ultra Trio- 1300 miles in 16 days +00:28:10, and 2000 km-15 days +10:06:02. He also ran 823 miles for the first ten days of that race, an elite total and a new course record at that time. Rimas has run nearly 50 ultras in 20 years of running. He holds the Lithuanian 100 km record (7:20:41), set in1995. In 1999, in his multiday debut, he won the Six-Day with 517 miles, holding off all competitors. In 2002 he attempted and completed the 3100 mile race in 50 days+02:44:08 in a difficult struggle with shin splints and hot, sticky weather. A frequent racer, Rimas runs many of the local ultras in the New York area.Trishul Cherns,47, Middle Village,NY CAN
One of the most prolific ultrarunners in the world, Trishul is Canada's premier multiday specialist. In 1996 he finished fifth in the Sri Chinmoy 2700 Mile Race in 45 days, 15 hours. He holds 108 Canadian national records for various distances, including 1000 miles (13 days 7 hours), 48 hours (221 miles 230 yds) and 1000km (7 days 14 hours). He has done 538 miles for six days and over 130 miles for 24 hours, as well as having run over 30 multidays in his sparkling ultra career,totalliing over 150 ultra races. In 1999 he finished third in the 3100 miler in 50 days, three hours, surviving one of the hottest summers on record in New York. Last year he again braved the summer heat to finish the 3100 mile collossus in 55 days two hours. Trishul is a massage therapist living with his wife Kaaren in Middle Village,Queens.Don Winkley, 66, Corpus Christi, TX USA Last year at Flushing Meadows in the first six days of the 1000 mile race, Don set two records- a 65-69 age group world best of 171 miles for 48 hours, and a US age group best of 390 miles for 6 days. In 1997 he set an American age group record(55-59) for 1000 miles in 14 days 10 hours. At the time this was a masters world best for the distance. 1995 he became the oldest finisher of the Moonbat Trans America Race (2925 miles) finishing tenth and completing all 64 stages. In 1994 he set an American six day age group(55-59) record of 450 miles. In the Inaugural Sri Chinmoy Ten Day Race in 1996, Don finished fifth with 600 miles.He won the race overall the following year. He has run in many countries, including stage races across France, across Europe, and across the deserts of Australia.
Walter Zimmermann,50, Markheidenfeld,GER In 2002, Walter finished second in the Ten Day Race with 651 miles, an impressive total. In 17 years of running he has run over 150 ultras, including 17 multiday races.He finished third in the 1999 Ten day Race with 623 miles.
Christopher Mullauer,31, Zurich, SUI Last fall in the 700 mile race, Christopher finished first for the men in 10 days,17 hours. Included in that race was a very good split of 409 miles for six days, in only his second multiday. Last year in the six day, Christopher ran 328 miles.
Christopher Rana,27 Hamburg,GER Last fall, Christopher finished second for the men in the 700 Mile Race in 11 days 14 hours, He ran the six day race last spring, completing 334 miles.
Luis Rios,56, Brooklyn,NY USA
In 2002 Luis ran 627 miles in the 700 mile race, the furthest he has gone in a multiday event. A fixture at all shorter ultras in the New York area, Luis has had a long and prolific running journey. He has completed over 200 ultras, including a best at 24 hours-140 miles, and several fast 100 milers to his credit. He has done eight multiday events, with a best of 421 miles for six days. He ran 525 miles in the Ten day race in 2001. In 2003 he totaled 525 miles again in the Ten-Day event.Gregor Knauer,50, Tempe, AZ USA
In 15 years of running, Gregor has completed five multidays, including 803 miles in the 1000 mile race(1997), and 376 miles for six days.Martin Vladovic,28,Trnava,SLK
In 2001, Martin ran 488 miles in the Ten Day race, his only multiday eventRainhald Pobitzer, 23, Innsbruck, AUT
Last year Rainald completed 352 miles in the Six Day in his multiday debut.Gerhard Gruenstaeudl, 35, Vienna, AUT
Gerhard has done 278 miles for six days in his only foray into multiday racing.Ric Marin,49, Johannesburg, RSA
Ric has done four multidays in his 100+ ultra resume. His best for six days is 608 km(375 miles) last year in the Gloden Leopard Six Day.Klaus Schulz,63, Berlin,GER
Klaus has been running for 10 years, including 24 ultras and 26 marathons. His six day multiday debut last year ended with 251 miles.Michal Petricek,39, Brno, CZ
Michal is new to ultrarunning, having only three ultras to his credit. Last year he ran 258 miles in the six day race.Petr Spacil,25, Brno, CZ
Petr has run six ultras, including a best of 330 km( 204 miles) for three days.Tamas Agoston,39, Zurich, SUI
In 14 years of running Tamas has completed several ultras, but never a race beyond 24 hours. His best is 83 miles for 24 hours.Gabor Kalman,38, Budapest, HUN
Gabor is making his multiday debut after five years of marathons and short ultras.Women Elvira Janosi, 48, Palic, Serb-Mont.
A seasoned veteran of 40 years of running, Elvira has travelled the world and competed everywhere. She hlods national records at six days, ten days, 1000 km and 700 miles. She has won the Ten Day Race four times for the women, including a best of 550 miles. She completed the 700 mile race in 2000 in 12 days four hours.Lenka Svecova,29,Brno,CZ
Lenka has completed 17 multidays in 22 years of running. Her bests include 1000 miles in 15 days 15 hours (2001), 635 miles for ten days (split), and 413 miles for six days- all national records.Dorothea Vogeli,40,Basel, SU
Last year Dorothea won the women's Ten Day with 577 miles. She was first lady in the 2002 1000 Mile Race with 901 miles. In all she has run 22 ultras including 4 multidays.Ingrid Kirschner,38, Munich, GER
Ingrid has run two multidays in seven years of running. Her best six day total was 315 miles from 2003.Friederike Makowka,44, Geneva,SW- GER
Friederike ran 340 miles in her multiday debut- Six Day race.Karina Ward, Canberra, AUS
Karina is making her first multiday appearance in 15 years of running. She has run four ultras.
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Results 2004
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