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Kilian Jornet must withdraw from his current record attempt 24 hours in a row

Physical problems in the knee have taken Kilian Jornet away from the challenge of running more than 303 km in 24 hours. He was trying to break the record on a closed track in Mandalen (Norway).

The goal of the Ceretan Kilian Jornet and his challenge ‘Phantasm 24’ was to try to run for 24 hours on a closed athletics track to add as many kilometers as possible. Officially, the longest distance recorded in 24 hours was set in 1997 by the Greek Yiannis Kouros, who ran 303,506 kilometers, a figure that Jornet, before starting his challenge, considered “absolutely wild.”
The one from La Cerdanya stopped and sat on the ground after more than ten hours, during which time he covered 134 kilometers and 800 meters. He gave a total of 337 laps, the last at 2:06.

In the first nine hours he always exceeded the twelve kilometers completed and only in the tenth he dropped to 10.4. He left the track when he was running 3.6 laps in his eleventh hour.

Kilian Jornet started the challenge with zero degrees, a temperature that with the passing of the hours and the sunset decreased, since in Mandalen, at this time of year, there are only seven hours of light.

The runner changed direction every four hours on a track he knows well and where he trained for several months for this challenge.

In order to make the race official, several Norwegian long distance athletes also competed alongside him.

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