Vikena Yutz winner of the women’s Sri chinmoy 6 day race 2016 Photo by Utpal Marshall
The Sri Chinmoy Ten and 6 Day races drew to a close at noon yesterday with Kobi Oren winning his first Sri Chinmoy event and setting a new national record of 755 miles (1215.055km).
The top three men were all making their debut at the distance with Ed Ettinghausen holding second place since Day one averaging over 70 miles a day. Søren Raarup also had a great race climbing the leader board and running 88 miles on day 6 to claim third place.
Australian Sarah Barnett won the women’s race for the fourth time with 672 miles, fourth place overall.
Yolanda Holder covered 622 miles, 1000 km, at the age of 57 to take second place and Manoshri Sykorova took third place with 609 miles improving her last years performance by 128 km.
In the 6 day race Lithuanian Aidas Ardzijauskas produced the best performance in the world so far this year with 517 miles (832 km) leading from day 1.
Second was Johnny Hallneby from Sweden making his 6 day debut with an impressive 490 miles (788 km) and John Geesler from the USA ran 60+ everyday to take third spot.
Vikena Yutz became the first American born woman to win the women’s 6 day race finishing with 375 miles (603 km) .
Susan Marshall, running her first multiday and the DUV lists this event as her second ultra, finished the race in second place with 323 miles (519 km).
Third was Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team runner Gundega Gaile from Latvia with 315 miles (506 km) equaling her pb set in 2014.
| Men
Name (bib) Laps 1 Kobi Oren (1) 755 2 Ed Ettinghausen (3) 717 3 Soren Raarup (30) 693 4 Volodymyr Hlushchuk (5) 643 5 Andrey Andreev (6) 629 6 Sergey Kuzmin (8) 627 7 Achim Heukemes (2) 613 8 Oleksandr Kharko (9) 612 9 Budjargal Byambaa (11) 601 10 Ananda-Lahari Zuscin (7) 585 11 Mahasatya Janczak (23) 574 12 Sergei Komelkov (10) 565 13 Sergey Leshchenko (15) 555 14 Ushika Muckenhumer (4) 552 15 Ales Pliva (17) 534 16 Mikhail Vasilchenko (16) 532 17 Michel Gouin (18) 509 18 Kalpa Lazarev (12) 468 19 Predrag Knezevic (28) 457 20 Karteek Clarke (22) 453 21 Andrei Somov (14) 437 22 Janos Derekas (20) 435 23 Deveshu Zuderell (29) 429 24 Michael Korol (27) 424 25 Sandro Zincarini (24) 409 26 Kumar Limbu (19) 404 27 Georgs Jermolajevs (13) 400 28 Patanga Cordeiro (21) 395 29 Richard Takata (26) 393 30 Viktor Dodunov (31) 370 31 Frederick Davis III (25) 142 Women Name (bib) Laps 1 Sarah Barnett (40) 672 2 Yolanda Holder (48) 622 3 Manoshri Sykorova (46) 609 4 Nataliya Hlushchuk (42) 596 5 Gautami Sykorova (47) 583 6 Vinati Docziova (43) 568 7 Oyungerel Seded (54) 524 8 Elena Kareva (41) 522 9 Gudrun Freier (53) 507 10 Kimberley Van Delst (51) 501 11 Karnayati Morison (55) 469 12 Ratuja Zub (56) 467 13 Suparna Pustogowa (49) 456 14 Giribhu Muhs (45) 448 15 Yashasvati Plyavinskaya (50) 447 16 Vasuprada Funk (44) 258 |
6 Day Race
| Men
Name (bib) Laps 1 Aidas Ardzijauskas (61) 517 2 Johnny Hallneby (72) 490 3 John Geesler (60) 426 4 Milan Javornicky (70) 378 5 Priyavadin Reisecker (63) 373 6 Wai Law (66) 373 7 David Luljack (74) 360 8 Arun Bhardwaj (67) 340 9 Mark Dorion (64) 331 10 Rimas Jakelaitis (62) 320 11 Hoskuldur Kristvinsson (68) 314 12 Roger Martel (65) 278 13 Odgiiv Jadambaa (69) 266 14 Marius Lacasse (73) 206 15 Joe Cleary (71) 151 Women Name (bib) Laps 1 Vikena Yutz (81) 375 2 Susan Marshall (94) 323 3 Gundega Gaile (96) 315 4 Anna Eliseeva (85) 293 5 Mattali Stebneva (82) 285 6 Pushparani Piner (92) 275 7 Tatiana Arnst (93) 268 8 Erlinda Biondic (88) 266 9 Anna Khimchinskaia (83) 266 10 Lyalya Faerman (95) 265 11 Albena Margaritova (91) 228 12 Pratishruti Khisamutdinova (84) 224 13 Avanayaha Tsendee (86) 210 14 Sumiya Lundeg (87) 5 |
Sri Chinmoy 10 Day Links
Race website: http://us.srichinmoyraces.org/events/6-10-day-race
Race results: http://stats.srichinmoyraces.org
Daily news stories: Perfection-Journey
Race videos on Vimeo: Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team
Photos: Prabhakar Street