Aleksandr Sorokin
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| Full name | Aleksandr Sorokin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Sania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Lithuanian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 September 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) (2021) 100 kg (220 lb) (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ultramarathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 50 and 100 kilometres, 100 miles (161 km), 12 and 24-hour runs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Cosma (Vilnius, 2022–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Sebastian Białobrzeski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aleksandr "Sania" Sorokin (born 30 September 1981) is a Lithuanian long-distance runner who holds multiple world and European records. As of May 2023, he held seven world records on the track and road: 100 km (road), 100 miles (road), 100 miles (track), 6-hour run (track), 12-hour run (track), 12-hour run (road), 24-hour run (road). Sorokin won the IAU 24 Hour World Championship in 2019, IAU European 24 Hour Championships in 2022 and the Spartathlon in 2017.
He holds the world record for the greatest distances in 24 hours [319.6 kilometres (198.6 miles)], in 12 hours [177.4 kilometres (110.2 miles)], and achieved the fastest time for 100 miles (10 hours, 51 minutes, 39 seconds), in some cases having broken his own earlier records in subsequent runs.