He covered 309.4 km with an average pace of 4:39 per kilometer in Pabianice, Poland. Later that year on 29 August, he broke Yiannis Kouros' 'unbreakable' 24-hour world record record of 303.3 km, set in 1997. Sorokin kept overall pace for the 12 hours of running at a 6:48 minutes per mile (4:14 per kilometer). His 100-mile (160.934 kilometers) world record was a time of 11:14:56, and his 12-hour world record was a distance of 105.825 miles/170.309 kilometers. On 24 April 2021, he set both the 100-mile and the 12-hour world records during the Centurion Running Track 100 Mile in England (official record ratifiable splits are also taken there at the 50 km, 5 mile, 100 km, 6 hrs and 12 hrs en route). In 2019 at the IAU 24 Hour World Championship held in Albi, France, he had his breakthrough performance, breaking the championship record with a distance of 278.972 kilometres. In 2017, Sorokin won the prestigious Spartathlon in Greece, becoming the 35th winner and the third-fastest athlete in this race. In 2015, he set the Lithuanian records for 100 km (6:50:34) and 24 hours (242.189 km) at the respective World Championships. He quickly demonstrated exceptional qualities in ultra distance running and took part in his first 100 kilometres race in 2013. He covered greatest distances in 24 hours, in 12 hours, and achieved the fastest time for 100 miles (10 hours, 51 minutes, 39 seconds), in some cases having broken his own earlier records in subsequent runs.Īleksandr Sorokin kayaked and canoed for Lithuania teams until a shoulder injury when aged 25, but only began running in 2013, at the age of 31, to lose weight (he was 100 kg).

Sorokin won the IAU 24 Hour World Championship in 2019, IAU European 24 Hour Championships in 2022 and the Spartathlon in 2017. As of May 2023, he held seven world records on the track and road: 100 km (road), 100 miles (road), 100 miles (track), 6-hour run (track), 12-hour run (track), 12-hour run (road), 24-hour run (road). Aleksandr “Sania” Sorokin (born 30 September 1981) is a Lithuanian long-distance runner holding multiple world and European records.

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