Rimas Jakelaitis

Biography:

Lithuanian runner born in 1955. In 2000 Rimas astounded everyone with a world record of 16 days 00 hours in the Sri Chinmoy 1300 mile race on Wards Island in New York taking over 15 hours off the record as well as gaining the 2000 km world best. In 2001 he set the Sri Chinmoy 10 Day race course record running 901 miles for ten days the second best total in history. In the process he passed 600 miles for six days becoming only the 12th person all-time to ever do it.