Finland’s Satu Lipiäinen has set a brand new girls’s 12-hour world document on the 2023 Kokkola Extremely Run in her house nation by operating 153.600 kilometers (95.443 miles).
It was solely 4.5 months in the past, in early January, that Poland’s Dominika Stelmach reset the 12-hour world document at 152.633 kilometers (94.841 miles). Lipiäinen’s efficiency, which is pending ratification, takes the document simply shy of a kilometer additional.
Lipiäinen’s common tempo for 12 hours comes out to about 4:41 minutes per kilometer (7:33 minutes per mile).
Finland’s Satu Lipiäinen on her technique to setting a 12-hour world document on the 2023 Kokkola Extremely Run in Finland. Photograph: Kalle Lipiäinen
The 2023 Kokkola Extremely Run, going down in its namesake city positioned on the west coast of Finland, is internet hosting six-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour races on Saturday and Sunday, Might 20 and 21. In accordance with the occasion web site, “The race course is formally measured and it’s 864.2 meters lengthy. The course is kind of flat and there may be roughly one meter ascension per lap. Half of the course is gravel and the opposite half tarmac.”
Whereas Lipiäinen has been acting at a excessive degree in ultrarunning for a number of years, she got here throughout iRunFar’s radar when she took fifth finally yr’s IAU 100k World Championships by operating 7:15, which was 11 minutes behind the champion. When not operating, she’s a post-doctoral researcher at Finland’s Lappeenranta-Lahti College of Expertise in renewable vitality applied sciences.
Lipiäinen’s efficiency is certainly one of a major variety of ultramarathon world data which have been reset in the previous couple of years, what’s amounting to a resurgence of curiosity and competitors in street and observe ultramarathon operating.
Finland’s Satu Lipiäinen on her technique to setting a 12-hour world document on the 2023 Kokkola Extremely Run in Finland. Photograph: Kalle Lipiäinen
