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Home PLEASE CLICK ON PICTURES TO ENLARGE. Welcome to the website of Tony Mangan, Irish international ultra runner. Tony's next challenge will be the Surgeres 48 hour race in France May 16-18th. Surgeres is an invite only for the top 12 men and 12 women at 48 hours in the world and considered by many to be the World Championships for 48 hours. It is a Road track.(301 mts.) There will be updates during the race from their site which is linked below. We hope to have his progress updated on this site below This is the race website: http://www.48heures-surgeres.net/ The website is in French. TRANSLATE To Translate: press ' Translate ' option above. Then 'copy and paste' from the Surgeres website into the translate text box. Then Select French to your language and finally press ' Translate'. Photos from last year when he finished 2nd 401km. That was just 8 weeks after he broke the world indoor 48 hour record. Here LATEST UPDATE ON TONY'S PROGRESS IN SURGERES.... After 7 hours, Tony has 72.382km on the board and is in seventh place. A nice controlled start and only seven kms behind the leader. After 14 hours, Tony has 136km and has moved into forth place. In front of him are three Japanese runners. After19 hours, Tony has 173.113km and is currently in fifth position. There seem to have been some injury problems and I would say that Tony has been walking for the past ten hours. At the 30 hour mark he has 218.623km.
TONY AFTER BREAKING THE IRISH 24 HOUR TRACK RECORD (223KM) AFTER THE EUROPEAN 24 HOUR CHAMPIONSHIPS (9TH) IN VERONA, ITALY SEPT.2006. VERONA IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE FOR TONY. HE LEFT PART OF HIS HEART THERE.
BRNO ARENA SIGN MARCH 18TH 2007.CLICK TO ENLARGE.
Tony ( 1 ) followed by Yiannis Kouros (16) in Brno 2008. Yiannis holder of more than 160 overall and age group world records won in 408.010km. PLEASE CLICK ON PICTURES TO ENLARGE. Last year Tony broke the world record for 48 hours in Brno with 426.178km (264.81465 miles).This year he had to drop out due to an ankle injury and was disappointed not to be able to challenge the Greek ultra running legend who has dominated the sport for almost 25 years.Tony was wearing a black armband as a mark of respect to his step-father,John Foley who died just before the race. Please see reports page for Tony's world record race report from last year.
Tony won in Arizona in Across The Years, a 72 hour race. He was second last year, and went one better this year. Check RACE REPORTS to read the race report. TONY RUNNING THE LAST LAP TO WIN THE ACROSS THE YEARS 3 DAY RACE IN ARIZONA, JAN. 1ST. 2008. TRANSLATE

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