Belgium’s Matthieu Bonne and Poland’s Patrycja Bereznowska each had huge weekends of racing, respectively setting new males’s and girls’s 48-hour world information on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race in Pabianice, Poland.
Bonne ran no less than 485.099 kilometers (301.426 miles), with the ultimate distance to be confirmed. This efficiency prolonged Yiannis Kouros’ earlier report of 473.495 kilometers (294.216 miles) by no less than 11.6 kilometers, or 7.2 miles.
Bereznowska ran a reported 436.373 kilometers (271.149 miles). This broke Camille Herron’s earlier report of 435.336k (270.505 miles) by a bit over 1 kilometer, or about 0.6 miles.
The race kicked off at midday Polish time on Friday, Might 30, and wrapped up on Sunday, June 1. Circumstances have been heat all through, getting near 30 levels Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) with excessive humidity, however the shade supplied by the three-lined course reportedly made for nice sufficient circumstances. The race is run on a flat asphalt loop, measured and authorized, of slightly below a mile by town’s Park Wolności.
The occasion served because the International Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoning 48-Hour World Championships.
Each information are pending ratification by the Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners.
Learn on for extra element on every report.
A crowd of spectators cheer in the beginning of the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race. All pictures: Jacob Zocherman
Matthieu Bonne’s Males’s 48-Hour World Document
Belgium’s Matthieu Bonne has damaged the lads’s 48-hour world report, operating no less than 485.099 kilometers (301.426 miles), with the ultimate distance to be confirmed, on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race.
Changing into the primary man to interrupt the 300-mile barrier in a 48-hour race, the 31-year-old additionally pushed out the Greek ultrarunning legend Kouros’ 29-year-old report by no less than 11.6 kilometers, or 7.2 miles. Kouros’ report was set in Surgeres, France, in Might 1996.
Matthieu Bonne units a brand new males’s 48-hour world report on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race.
Bonne’s whole distance within the allotted time equates to a mean elapsed tempo of roughly 5:56 per kilometer, or 9:34 per mile, for 48 hours, together with all breaks.
He banked distance early on within the race, and was properly forward of report tempo after 12 hours, with 143.21k within the financial institution. After 30 hours, he had lined 329.57k, and the report nonetheless regarded properly inside attain. Though Bonne inevitably slowed down within the closing quarter of the race, he appeared comfy all through, thanking followers who applauded as he broke the 300-mile barrier, earlier than persevering with on his final victory laps.
Bonne has a background in a spread of endurance sports activities, with accolades in open water swimming in addition to ultrarunning. He’s a earlier finisher of the Marathon des Sables, and in addition reset the males’s six-day world report on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships in Hungary.
Patrycja Bereznowska’s Ladies’s 48-Hour World Document
Poland’s Patrycja Bereznowska has now reclaimed the ladies’s 48-hour world report, operating a reported 436.373 kilometers (271.149 miles) to enhance on Herron’s earlier report by simply over a kilometer, or roughly 0.6 miles. This comes three years after Bereznowska final set the 48-hour report on the similar occasion in 2022, when she ran 403.32 kilometers (250.611 miles). She dug very deep this previous weekend to enhance on that mark by greater than 20 miles.
Patrycja Bereznowska on her option to setting a girls’s 48-hour world report on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race.
In 2023, Herron bested Bereznowska’s report on the 2023 Sri Chinmoy 48 Hour Pageant, which was run in Bruce, Australia, setting the subsequent world report mark to beat.
Bereznowska’s whole distance equates to a mean elapsed tempo of round 6:36 per kilometer for 48 hours, or 10:37 per mile. That common tempo consists of all breaks for logistics.
Bereznowska, age 49, ran comparatively near report tempo all through the occasion. She didn’t have a lot to spare towards the tip of the race and labored onerous within the closing hours, with spectators not sure if she would surmount the prior world report. Celebrations have been thus wild when she did so, after which ran about an additional kilometer past it, within the 48-hour race’s closing minutes.
