Lithuanian ultra marathon runner Aleksandr Sorokin shattered his own world record at the IAU 24-hour European championships with a distance of 319.614 kilometres – just 10km less than it would have taken him to run the length of his home country from top to bottom. Sorokin averaged a pace of 4:30 per km at the event in Verona, Italy to eclipse his previous mark of 303.506 km, set in August last year. “I’m very tired, however I’m double excited,” the 40-year-old wrote in a post on Instagram. “Very, very thankful for your support, I really felt it.” Second place in the event, which took place on Sept 17-18, went to Poland’s Andrzej Piotrowski (301.858 km) while Italy’s Marco Visiniti finished third (288.437 km).
