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Recent Examples of ultramarathon
Kristen was also an ultramarathon runner and someone who found joy and purpose in caring for animals.
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Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
The Divergent and Big Little Lies actress will play Eve, an ultramarathon runner who, following the tragic death of her twin sister, enters the most intense competition on the planet: The Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, a 135-mile race through Death Valley.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Just days before his crash, Braconi ran a 100-kilometer (63 miles) ultramarathon in Big Bear with his high school soccer teammate Colby Hahn.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
Now a new study that followed ultramarathon runners for up to a year suggests an answer.
—Jason Dinh, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
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Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
The Divergent and Big Little Lies actress will play Eve, an ultramarathon runner who, following the tragic death of her twin sister, enters the most intense competition on the planet: The Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, a 135-mile race through Death Valley.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Just days before his crash, Braconi ran a 100-kilometer (63 miles) ultramarathon in Big Bear with his high school soccer teammate Colby Hahn.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
Now a new study that followed ultramarathon runners for up to a year suggests an answer.
—Jason Dinh, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ultramarathon
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In Florida, collecting on a jury award against a nursing home can be a legal marathon.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
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That said, folks training for those shorter, faster races will likely want to do more fast running than people gearing up for longer distances, like a half or full marathon, Hamilton says.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
20 Mar. 2026
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Those women’s sports include basketball, beach volleyball, cross country, golf, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, equestrian, soccer, swimming and driving, rifle, volleyball, and triathlon.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Mar. 2026
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Women compete at the same distances in running and swimming and other endurance sports, including triathlon, and do so now in cross-country skiing.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Schickler points out that this could create a conundrum for the crowded gubernatorial race.—
Brad Hamilton,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Raceway, which operated from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, featured a quarter-mile track at the Wally Smith farm, a mile-and-a-half west of town on Route 34 that was drawing three times the village’s total population for races during its heyday, local historians have said.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Toyota supported Andrea Eskau, the German Paralympic skier who won gold in the 6km biathlon and silver in the 5km cross-country at the 2014 Sochi Games, at age 42.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Zaino will also compete in the biathlon (skiing and shooting).—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2026
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The 29-year-old went to Baylor and competed for the school’s track and field team and earned All-Big 12 honors with a fifth-place finish in the decathlon in 2016.—
José Sánchez Córdova,
Dallas Morning News,
1 Feb. 2026
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Today’s birthdays: Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bill Toomey is 87.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Ultramarathon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ultramarathon. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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