Japan’s Miho Nakata jumped into the highlight within the ultrarunning world on Saturday, December 2, setting the ladies’s 24-hour world report of 167.995 miles (270.362 kilometers) on the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Taipei.

She beat the earlier report set by Camille Herron of 167.842 miles (270.116k) on the 2019 IAU 24-Hour World Championships held in Albi, France.

Nakata averaged a tempo of 8:55 minutes per mile (5:20 minutes per kilometer).  To place it in perspective, after 24 hours of working, she beat the earlier distance by a little bit over half a lap of a observe, or 807 ft (246 meters).

Japan’s Miho Nakata celebrates after setting a brand new ladies’s 24-hour world report on the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Taipei on December 1 and a pair of. Picture: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners

This 12 months’s IAU 24-Hour World Championships passed off over a 1.24-mile (2k) loop. Nakata stayed out entrance for almost all of the race, rising her hole on the ladies’s subject and finally smashing the world report.

Nakata’s multi-year historical past with ultrarunning is peppered with national- and a pair international-level outcomes. Final 12 months, she took sixth on the IAU 100k World Championships by working 7:19. It seems she’s additionally run as quick as 13:09 for 100 miles.

Japan’s Miho Nakata working exhausting in the course of the last hour of her world-record-setting effort on the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships, held in Taipei on December 1 and a pair of. Picture: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners