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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 1,024.319 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 are the timing provider's final table including each runner's last partial lap, which the organiser's rules have measured on the ground after the finish by an accredited course measurer; Eckert's was 371 metres. 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.

2026

Results · 2026

women

  1. 1. Megan Eckert (WR)1024.319 km
  2. 2. Tomomi Bitoh802.927 km
  3. 3. Zsuzsanna Maráz754.558 km

men

  1. 1. Simen Holvik940.874 km
  2. 2. Mario Čeliković862.066 km
  3. 3. Szabolcs Beda853.693 km

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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 1,024.319 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, went through 1,000 km on lap 1,114, and finished 371 metres into her 1,141st.

Simen Holvik of Norway was second on 940.874 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 862.066 km and Szabolcs Beda of Hungary fourth on 853.693.

Tomomi Bitoh of Japan was second woman on 802.927 km and Zsuzsanna Maráz of Hungary third on 754.558, having won the women's race here in 2022 and 2024. Japan won the women's race of nations through Bitoh and Yuka Ikeda, and France the men's through Jean-Michel Terme and Christian Mauduit.

Distances

Distance
6 days

Noon Thursday to noon Wednesday on a 898.2-metre asphalt loop. Sold out on April 8.

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