Results
Tim Twietmeyer completed the race a record 25 times, all in under 24 hours. Scott Jurek's 2005 victory was his seventh consecutive win. The women's division course record of 17:37:51 was set in 1994 by Ann Trason, who won the race fourteen times.
In 2008 the run was canceled due to bad air quality and smoke from an unprecedented number of wildfires.
The 2009 winners of the race were Hal Koerner and Anita Ortiz. In 2010, Geoff Roes overtook Anton Krupicka at the Brown's Bar checkpoint with 10.1 miles to go to win the race and set a new course record with 15:07:04. Tracy Garneau won the women's race in 19:01:55. Amy Palmiero-Winters, a transtibial amputee, became the first amputee in history to complete the race, in 27:43:10.
In 2012, Ellie Greenwood bested the seemingly unbreakable course record set by Ann Trason in 1994 by nearly an hour with a new record time of 16:47:19. The same year, Timothy Olson ran a sub 15 hour race (14:46:44) and in the process, broke the previous course record that was set by Geoff Roes in 2010.
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