ultramarathon
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An ultramarathon is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of . The sport of running ultramarathons is called ultra running or ultra distance running.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Ultramarathon
- Sport.image
- Sahara Race 2011.jpg
- Sport.imagesize
- 220px
- Sport.caption
- Ultramarathoners compete at the Sahara Race 2011 (4 Deserts)
- Sport.union
- World AthleticsInternational Association of UltrarunnersGlobal Organization of Multi-Day UltramarathonersInternational Trail Running Association
- Sport.world
- 1987–present
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports discipline
- Subclass of
- long-distance running
- Sport
- athletics
- Image
- Sahara Race 2011.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ultramarathon
- topic's main category
- Category:Ultrarunning
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Overview
- IAU World Record and World Best performances
- Men
- Women
- Men
- Women
- IAU World Championships
- Ultramarathons by regions
- Africa
- Asia
- Oceania, Australia, and New Zealand
- Europe
- North America
- See also
- References
- External links
An ultramarathon is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of . The sport of running ultramarathons is called ultra running or ultra distance running.
Various distances, surfaces, and formats are raced competitively. The shortest common ultramarathon is , and around is typically the longest course distance raced in under 24 hours, but there are also longer multiday races commonly held as 48 hours, , or more, sometimes raced in stages with breaks for sleep.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ultramarathon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.