Balatonfüred, Hungary · Road
EMU 6-Day Race 2026
Thursday, September 3, 2026 · Completed
The 2026 race is the GOMU 6-Day World Championship, awarded by the Global Organization of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners, which holds world championships and ratifies multi-day records the IAU does not. It is run as an individual race and a race of nations at the same time, with team medals by gender counted from each country's best two runners. The organiser also entered it as the Hungarian national championship, subject to approval by the national athletics federation. Megan Eckert won the race outright, ahead of every man in it, with 1,023.948 km: a women's six-day world record, beating her own 970.685 km, and the first time a woman has covered 1,000 km in a six-day race. The figures here are the timing provider's final table, which counts whole laps; the organiser's rules have the last partial lap measured on the ground afterwards by an accredited course measurer, so an official figure may sit slightly higher. The organiser ran a live video stream from the course throughout, which took 18,000 views, but did not keep the recording: the video now reads "This live stream recording is not available", so the link is no longer carried here.
Results · 2026
women
- 1. Megan Eckert (WR)1023.948 km
- 2. Tomomi Bitoh802.092 km
- 3. Zsuzsanna Maráz754.488 km
men
- 1. Simen Holvik940.415 km
- 2. Mario Čeliković861.373 km
- 3. Szabolcs Beda853.290 km
Results updated
How it went
Megan Eckert of the United States won the 2026 GOMU 6-Day World Championship outright, ahead of every man in the race, covering 1,023.948 km in 144 hours on a 898.2-metre asphalt loop at Balatonfüred. It is a women's six-day world record, beating the 970.685 km she set winning the same championship in France in May 2025, and no woman had previously run 1,000 km in a six-day race: the progression GOMU keeps runs back to Mary Marshall's 374.977 km in Chicago in February 1876. She passed her old record at twenty to four on the final morning, on lap 1,081, and went through 1,000 km on lap 1,114.
Simen Holvik of Norway was second on 940.415 km and led the race for three minutes at half past two on the Tuesday morning, the only time anyone but Eckert led it. She was two laps up on him by four that morning, seven by six, twelve by nine and ninety-three by the finish. Mario Čeliković of Croatia was third on 861.373 km and Szabolcs Beda of Hungary fourth on 853.290.
Tomomi Bitoh of Japan was second woman on 802.092 km and Zsuzsanna Maráz of Hungary third on 754.488, having won the women's race here in 2022 and 2024. The distances are the timing provider's final table and count whole laps; the race's own rules have the last partial lap measured on the ground afterwards, so official figures may sit a little higher.
Distances
- Distance
- 6 days
Noon Thursday to noon Wednesday on a 898.2-metre asphalt loop. Sold out on April 8.
| Distance | Notes |
|---|---|
| 6 days | Noon Thursday to noon Wednesday on a 898.2-metre asphalt loop. Sold out on April 8. |