WOMEN'S WORLD 100-K RECORD SET By David Monti (c) 2007 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved September 10, 207
At
last Saturday's Stichting Ultraloop Winschoten in Holland, host of the
IAU World Cup 100-K Championships, Norimi Sakurai of Japan came
tantalizingly close to breaking the seven hour barrier, recording a new
world road record for the distance of 7:00:27.
According to
records kept by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS),
the previous record was 7:00:48 by American Ann Trason set on the same
10 km, ten-loop course in Winschoten back in 1995. Tomoe Abe of Japan
ran faster on a point-to-point course in Yubetsu, Japan, in 2000
(6:33:11), but that mark is not recognized as a world record because of
the possible aid of wind or gravity.
In the men's race, the Japanese went 1-2 with Shinichi Watanabe (6:23:21) and Kenji Nakanishi (6:30:21) the first to finish.
Editor's Note: Sakurai's pace was 6:46 a mile for the 7 hours. The men's winning pace was 6:10 per mile.