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The 4 Deserts Ultramarathon Series is an annual series of four 250-kilometer (155-mile) races across deserts around the globe. [1] The races were recognized as the world's leading endurance footrace series by TIME magazine in 2009 and 2010, [2] as the "Ultimate test of human endurance". [3]
In 2010 Ryan Sandes of South Africa was crowned 4 Deserts Champion having won all four of the races he competed in, and Marjiana Pellizer of Croatia was crowned women's champion. [ 12 ] On September 2, 2011, at the 100 km event in the Kimberly, Western Australia, Turia Pitt , 24, and Kate Sanderson, 35, were left with severe burn injuries when ...
Desert Runners is a 2013 documentary film directed by Jennifer Steinman that follows a group of non-professional runners that attempt to complete 4 Deserts, a series of ultramarathon races often considered the most difficult in the world. Their journeys take them through some of the world’s most beautiful places while pushing the limits of ...
In 2010, Time magazine included the 4 Deserts Challenge on a list of the ten most demanding endurance races in the world. [ 4 ] Sandes won the 2011 Leadville Trail 100 in a time of 16:46:54, more than half an hour ahead of runner-up Dylan Bowman .
The Gobi March in northwest China was China's first ultramarathon, first staged in 2003. The Gobi March is part of the 4 Deserts Race Series. [46] Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge is a 298 km-long uninterrupted race, the first ultramarathon-class race in Hong Kong.
Overall Winner, 4 Deserts Race Series, 2008 [14] American Ultrarunning Team, World Championships, 2005, 2008; 148 miles (238 km) in 24 hours on a treadmill, 2004 [15] Eleven-time 100-Mile/1 Day Silver Buckleholder at the Western States Endurance Run [16] (i.e., better than ten twenty-four-hour finishes), 1995–2006
A trophy truck in a desert race (2006). Desert racing is the act of racing through the desert in a two- or four-wheeled off-road vehicle. Races, which generally consist of two or more loops around a course covering up to 4,660 miles (7,500 km), can take the form of Hare and Hound or Hare scramble style events, and are often laid out over a long and harsh track through relatively barren terrain.
Ali Wehbi is an extreme runner and racer who was the first Lebanese and Arab to complete the 4 Deserts race. Pushing the boundaries of endurance running since 2004, Ali Wehbi has spent the past 16 years proving to the world that there is no limit to what a man can achieve with his own body strength and an unrelenting sense of determination.