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  1. 1Bruce FordyceBruce FordyceBorn 3 Dec 1955Fordyce won the Comrades Marathon nine times in the 1980s, including eight in a row, on a hilly road course of roughly 90km where patience matters more than speed: he was famous for sitting well back early and reeling the leaders in. He also won the London to Brighton race three times and set a…0i
  2. 2Ann TrasonAnn TrasonTrason won the Western States 100 a record 14 times between 1989 and 2003, often finishing high in the overall standings, and she was just as formidable on the road: two Comrades wins in the 1990s and a world 100km title. She also set track world bests and won Leadville, at altitude, in the same…0
  3. 3Yiannis KourosYiannis KourosBorn 13 Feb 1956Kouros dominated the longest distances for two decades. He won the 246km Spartathlon from Athens to Sparta four times, setting a course record in his first attempt in 1984 that lasted for decades, won the Sydney to Melbourne race several times, and set world bests from 24 hours to six days and…0i
  4. 4Scott JurekScott JurekBorn 26 Oct 1973Jurek won the Western States 100 seven times in a row from 1999, then proved himself on entirely different ground: the Badwater 135 through Death Valley, three straight Spartathlon wins on the Greek roads, and an American 24-hour record on a loop course in 2010. Those are mountain trail, desert…0i
  5. 5Lizzy HawkerLizzy HawkerBorn 10 Mar 1976Hawker, a British polar scientist by training, won UTMB five times between 2005 and 2012, yet she was equally strong on flat roads: world 100km champion in 2006, a British 24-hour record, and back-to-back Spartathlon wins with a women's course record. Mountain, road, timed and point-to-point events…0i
  6. 6Kílian JornetKílian JornetBorn 27 Oct 1987Jornet's range runs from the 42km sky race at Zegama, which he has won more often than anyone, to the 100-mile mountain classics: four UTMB titles across 14 years, the 2011 Western States and multiple Hardrock wins. He added world titles in ski mountaineering and two ascents of Everest without…0i
  7. 7Ellie GreenwoodEllie GreenwoodBorn 14 Mar 1979The Scottish-born Canadian won the world 100km road title in 2010, then went to the trails and won the Western States 100 in 2011 and 2012, the second in a course record that stood for years. In 2014 she added the Comrades Marathon, beating a deep field on South Africa's road classic. Road speed,…0i
  8. 8Camille HerronCamille HerronBorn 25 Dec 1981Herron came from the marathon and kept its quick, short stride all the way up to multi-day racing. She won the world 100km title in 2015 and Comrades in 2017, the Tarawera trail ultra in New Zealand, and set world bests at 100 miles, 24 hours, 48 hours and six days, several of them since lowered.…0i
  9. 9Jim WalmsleyJim WalmsleyBorn 17 Jan 1990Walmsley built his reputation on fast, runnable courses: three Western States wins, including a 14:09 course record in 2019, and a world best for 50 miles on the road that same year. UTMB's steep Alpine terrain was a different problem, and after several failures he moved his family to the Chamonix…0i
  10. 10Courtney DauwalterCourtney DauwalterBorn 13 Feb 1985Dauwalter's 2023 summer is the best single season in ultrarunning: she won Western States, Hardrock and UTMB within about ten weeks, setting course records at the first two. Earlier she had won the 240-mile Moab race outright by about ten hours and run 279 miles at Big's Backyard Ultra, a format…0i