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Most Marathons Completed, Women - Current world record
1. Sigrid Eichner (Germany) has completed 930 marathon races of 42.195 km [26 miles 385 yd] and 658 ultramarathons (over an even longer distance) from 17 May 1980 to 20 March 2011. Altogether, she ran a distance of 85,695 kilometers - that's more than twice the equatorial circumference of the Earth.

 
 
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