Paula Schnurr, front right, and Patti Moore, front left, jog arm and arm in front of the athletes who ran to break a world record at McMaster University in Hamilton on July 7.
In 1999, Paula Schnurr and Patti Moore were part of a group in Toronto that ran to set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time in which 100 women ran a one-mile relay. That record stood for 24 years until an American team beat it by five minutes last year. On Sunday, 100 women in Hamilton won in back, they say. In 1999, Paula Schnurr and Patti Moore were part of a group in Toronto that ran to set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time in which 100 women ran a one-mile relay.
In June 2023, Guinness World Records certified a San Francisco team as having beaten their record by about five minutes with a time of 9 hours 18 minutes 32 seconds. It took a year of preparation, but on Sunday, 100 women ran a one-mile relay of 8:57:26.9, or about 23 minutes faster than the Americans, Moore and Schnurr said. They're submitting evidence to Guinness and said they expect to wait a few months before making the record official.
To find their 100 runners, the coaches took the time they wanted to beat and divided it by 100, getting around 5:32 per runner per mile. They issued a call out for people who could run that time and started checking in with coaches. In the end about 145 people applied, some of whom were alternates on Sunday.Chloe Thomas, a runner from Dundas, Ont., who's starting her fourth year at the University of Connecticut on a sports scholarship, was an early applicant.
The 100 runners were mostly from southern Ontario, between Windsor and Ottawa. They ranged in age from 12 to 50. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Maddy Kelly ran the last leg.
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