Belgium’s Matthieu Bonne and Poland’s Patrycja Bereznowska each had large 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 a minimum of 485.099 kilometers (301.426 miles), with the ultimate distance to be confirmed. This efficiency prolonged Yiannis Kouros’ earlier file of 473.495 kilometers (294.216 miles) by a minimum of 11.6 kilometers, or 7.2 miles.
Bereznowska ran a reported 436.373 kilometers (271.149 miles). This broke Camille Herron’s earlier file of 435.336k (270.505 miles) by somewhat 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 had been heat all through, getting near 30 levels Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) with excessive humidity, however the shade offered by the three-lined course reportedly made for nice sufficient situations. The race is run on a flat asphalt loop, measured and licensed, of just below a mile via 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.
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A crowd of spectators cheer at first of the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race. All photographs: Jacob Zocherman
Matthieu Bonne’s Males’s 48-Hour World Report
Belgium’s Matthieu Bonne has damaged the boys’s 48-hour world file, operating a minimum of 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 file by a minimum of 11.6 kilometers, or 7.2 miles. Kouros’ file was set in Surgeres, France, in Might 1996.
Matthieu Bonne units a brand new males’s 48-hour world file on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race.
Bonne’s complete distance within the allotted time equates to a median 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 nicely forward of file tempo after 12 hours, with 143.21k within the financial institution. After 30 hours, he had coated 329.57k, and the file nonetheless appeared nicely inside attain. Though Bonne inevitably slowed down within the ultimate 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 likewise reset the males’s six-day world file on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships in Hungary.
Patrycja Bereznowska’s Girls’s 48-Hour World Report
Poland’s Patrycja Bereznowska has now reclaimed the ladies’s 48-hour world file, operating a reported 436.373 kilometers (271.149 miles) to enhance on Herron’s earlier file by simply over a kilometer, or roughly 0.6 miles. This comes three years after Bereznowska final set the 48-hour file 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 method to setting a girls’s 48-hour world file on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race.
In 2023, Herron bested Bereznowska’s file on the 2023 Sri Chinmoy 48 Hour Competition, which was run in Bruce, Australia, setting the subsequent world file mark to beat.
Bereznowska’s complete distance equates to a median elapsed tempo of round 6:36 per kilometer for 48 hours, or 10:37 per mile. That common tempo contains all breaks for logistics.
Bereznowska, age 49, ran comparatively near file tempo all through the occasion. She didn’t have a lot to spare towards the tip of the race and labored onerous within the ultimate hours, with spectators not sure if she would surmount the prior world file. Celebrations had been thus wild when she did so, after which ran about an additional kilometer past it, within the 48-hour race’s ultimate minutes.
