Leonid shvetsov biography books

  • Translated from Russian, lightly edited and added to by Tom Cottrell.
  • It is the world's largest and oldest ultramarathon race.
  • I have completed 44 marathons (and 5 Comrades), ran in 2 Olympic Games and held the Russian National Marathon record for over 10 years, (broken by a runner that.

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    Comrades Marathon

    Ultramarathon road race between Durban and Pietermaritzburg

    The Comrades Marathon fryst vatten an ultramarathon of approximately 88 kilometres (55 mi)[1] which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. It is the world's largest and oldest ultramarathon race.[2] The direction of the race alternates each year between the "up" run (87.6km) starting from Durban (elevation: 101 metres (331 ft)) and the "down" run (87.7km) starting from Pietermaritzburg (elevation: 921 metres (3,022 ft)).

    The 2019 field was capped at 25,000 runners, and the entry process closed after one week.[3]South African runners constitute the greater part of the field, but many entrants hail from the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, India, the United States, Brazil, Australia, Botswana, Russia, Eswatini and Japan.[3][4] In all but three runnings since 1988, over 10,000

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    Leonid Shvetsov retires from running

    Posted on Oct 19, 2009 under Comrades Marathon | No Comment

    Current Comrades Marathon record holder for the “Up” and “Down” runs, Leonid Shvetsov, confirmed in a statement to the Comrades Marathon Association that he has decided to retire from all competitive running with immediate effect.

    “I made a considerate decision to stop my competitive running career. This is because when I resumed serious training a month after this year’s Comrades Marathon I again started to feel painful ‘clicking’ in my knee. I had same thing during the race this year, which forced me to slow down on the downhills and in the end resulted in severe (near) cramping and weakness in my quads in the last 18-20km during the race. What was worse – I couldn’t get rid of the feeling that my knee may ‘lock’ at any moment, and the race would have been over for me. I was lucky to come home 2nd on the day, and I don’t want to get

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    NEW RECORD AGAIN – Comrades – Leonid Shvetsov raced into the Comrades Marathon record books this morning after a second successive victory in the world\’s most important ultramarathon road race

    Leonid Shvetsov raced into the Comrades Marathon record books this morning after a second successive victory in the world's most important ultramarathon road race. The tall Russian smashed Vladimir Kotov's eight-year-old ''up'' run record by 47 seconds, coming home in 5:24:46 and beating second-placed Jaroslav Janicki by an incredible 13:41, one of the largest victory margins in recent Comrades history.

    This means that Shvetsov becomes the first man since Bruce Fordyce to win in both directions and to own both records.

    After the race, Shvetsov said that his race plan had gone perfectly, but that the record had never been certain. ''Last year I knew from a long way out that the record was in the bag, but this time it was touch and go.'&#

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