"Marathon – Staged 18,000 feet up the world's highest peak • August 1995: Abseiled down a giant piece the size of Blackpool Tower • September 1995: Complete Olympic distance triathlon • March 1996: Firewalk over burning coals • April 1996: Completed London Marathon in polar expedition gear • May 1996: Sahara Marathon des Sables – 150-mile ultra marathon carrying all equipment. • Oct – Jan 96–97: Scott 2 the South Pole – Expedition to the South Pole • March 1997: 125-mile Devizes to Westminster canoe marathon • July 1997: Fastnet yacht race • September 1997: Climbed Kilimanjaro on a llama"
"in 12 days without encountering a single oasis or desert community along the way. Two years later in 1986 the first ""Marathon des Sables"" was run. Twenty-three runners participated in the race with Bernard Gaudin and Christiane Plumere, both of France, finishing as the winning man and woman. By 2009 over 1,000 runners participated in the event and the ""Solidarité Marathon des Sables"" association was created. The aim is to develop projects to assist children and disadvantaged populations in the domains of health, education and sustainable development in Morocco. In 2017, two new ""Marathon des Sables"" events will take place"
"Elisabet Barnes Elisabet Barnes (born April 13, 1977, née ""Frankenberg"") is a Swedish athlete specialized in ultrarunning. Her major claim to fame is winning the Marathon des Sables in 2015, winning each stage of the race. She repeated her win in 2017. The Marathon des Sables has been listed by Outside Magazine as one of the 9 toughest ultramarathons in the world. In 2015, she participated in six races, winning all and setting new course records in four. Barnes grew up in Sweden but moved to England in 2007 where she started to run ultra trails in 2011. She holds"
"an MSc in Engineering & Business Management and a Graduate Certificate in Change Management, and has a professional background in management consulting. Barnes co-owns a shop that specializes in running equipment. Her partner, Norwegian Sondre Amdahl, is a professional mountain ultra trail-runner and endurance coach. 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Elisabet Barnes Elisabet Barnes (born April 13, 1977, née ""Frankenberg"") is a Swedish athlete specialized in ultrarunning. Her major claim to fame is winning the Marathon des Sables in 2015, winning each stage of the race. She repeated her win in 2017. The Marathon des Sables has"
"2015 24 Hours of Le Mans The 83rd 24 Hours of Le Mans () was an automobile endurance event held from 10 to 14 June 2015 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France. It was the 83rd running of the 24 Hour race organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest as well as the third round of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship. A test day was held two weeks prior to the race on 31 May. A record-breaking 263,500 people attended the event. The No. 18 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani, Romain Dumas, and Marc Lieb"
"the aid of a selection of health and educational projects for children. The Jabal Ishrin race is growing year by year. Its last edition in September 2005 saw the participation of 291 contestants. Their career took another step forward in 2001 when they participated in the famous endurance race Marathon des Sables, a 250 km, a six-day race in the sub-Saharan desert of Morocco which requires all participants to be entirely sufficient, with their own supplies on their backs. During the following years, they participated regularly in various local races and also started taking part in more endurance races around"
"2015 Clásica de San Sebastián The 2015 Clásica de San Sebastián was a one-day cycling classic that took place in the Basque Country in Spain on 1 August 2015. It was the 35th edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián and was the nineteenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. The defending champion was Alejandro Valverde (), who won a solo victory in the 2014 race. The race took place in and around the city of San Sebastián and was in length. The principal difficulty in the race was the sequence of climbs in the final part of the"
"2015 Tour de France The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The -long race started in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 4 July 2015, and concluded with the Champs-Élysées stage in Paris, on 26 July. A total of 198 riders from 22 teams entered the 21-stage race, which was won by Chris Froome of . The second and third places were taken by the riders Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde, respectively. 's Rohan Dennis won the first stage to take the race leader's yellow jersey. rider Fabian Cancellara claimed"
"2015 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps The 2015 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, formally the WEC 6 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps, was an endurance sports car racing event held on 2 May at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium. Spa-Francorchamps hosted the second race of the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship with 54,000 people attending the race weekend. The No. 17 Porsche of Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley, and Mark Webber qualified in pole position and maintained the lead until it was issued with a stop-and-go penalty, allowing Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas and Neel Jani to take over the lead. Audi's No. 7"
"race begins in the Albert I Garden in Nice, and then progresses along the French Riviera, visiting Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Villeneuve-Loubet, Antibes, Juan-les-Pins and Golfe-Juan before arriving in Cannes and finishing on the Promenade de la Croisette, in front of the Carlton Cannes hotel. In addition to the full marathon, a ""2 x 21.1 km"" relay race was added in 2013, in which runners can race in pairs, with one person running the first half of the race, and then the other running the second half of the race. A six-person relay race is also run, with each leg of the"
"edition also saw a new course record in the Women’s category, set by Lucy Kabu in a time of 0:31:48. This was 10 seconds better than the previous best by Wude Ayalew set in 2010. The 5th edition of the competition also offered incentives other than the prize money like Limited T-shirts which would be given away to the top 1500 finishers in the race. The 7th edition was held on 18 May 2014 with legendary Olympian Carl Lewis as its event ambassador. The 8th edition was held on 17 May 2015 with French Sprinter Marie Jose Perec as its"
"2015 Tour de France, Stage 12 to Stage 21 The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour started in Utrecht, Netherlands on 4 July and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July. On 21 July, between stages 16 and 17 there was a rest day in Gap. This mountainous stage began in Lannemezan, and headed south-east to an early intermediate sprint at Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges. The race then continued east through Payssous and Aspet, where it turned south. After the peloton passed through Sengouagnet, the peloton turned east again"
"if the real Nibali is around. More than anything, I want some answers for myself. I still haven’t felt as good as I did last year, I hope it happens starting from tomorrow (Tuesday). Will I attack? We’ll see... If there’s a chance, why not?"" Bastille Day featured the first mountainous stage of the 2015 Tour, departing from Tarbes, with racing officially starting at Bordères-sur-l'Échez. The peloton travelled west through Morlaàs, over the category 4 ""Côte de Bougarber"" to Mourenx, and then over the category 4 ""Côte de Vielleségure"" to Navarrenx. The peloton then headed south-west to Mauléon-Licharre, then south"
"the first ever African to win the event, but he was not selected to defend his title. His teammate Yohann Gène was chosen to lead instead. The 2015 race consisted of eight stages. These began with difficult, hilly stages in eastern Gabon, before coming to the western coast for several stages suitable for sprinters. There was also a team time trial that took place at night, although the times for this did not play a part in the general classification following because of a delay to the start of the stage. The key stage in the general classification of the"
"2015 Blancpain Sprint Series The 2015 Blancpain Sprint Series was the third season following on from the demise of the SRO Group's FIA GT1 World Championship (an auto racing series for grand tourer cars), the second with the designation of Blancpain Sprint Series. The series started at the Circuit Paul Armagnac in Nogaro, France on 6 April and will end at Circuit Park Zandvoort in Netherlands on 11 October. Baku had been scheduled to host the final round of the season, but was replaced by Zandvoort for economic reasons. The seven-event calendar contained largely the same events as the previous"
"Angers - Pré-en-Pail () 10 April – Abbaye de l'Epau - Le Lude () 2015 Circuit de la Sarthe The 2015 Circuit de la Sarthe (full name 2015 Circuit Cyclist Sarthe–Pays de Loire) was the 63rd edition of the Circuit de la Sarthe cycling stage race. It was run in the Sarthe department between 7 and 10 April 2015 and consisted of five stages, two of which took place on the same day. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the 2015 UCI Europe Tour. The race was won by the defending champion, Ramūnas Navardauskas (). Navardauskas won the"
"2015 Paris–Roubaix The 2015 Paris–Roubaix was the 113th edition of the Paris–Roubaix one-day race. It took place on 12 April and was the tenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. It was won by John Degenkolb in a sprint ahead of Zdeněk Štybar and Greg Van Avermaet. Degenkolb became only the second German to win the race, after Josef Fischers victory at the very first edition 119 years earlier. The 2015 Paris–Roubaix was in length, slightly shorter that the previous editions. Despite the name suggesting that the race starts in the French capital, it actually starts in Compiègne, 80"
"and Hong Kong. It was the first time Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines hosting a round of World Cup. France's National Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is near the city of Versailles, west of Paris. It hosted the opening round, on October 19-21. The velodrome was completed in 2014 and hosted the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where a number of world records were set. The velodrome also played host to the 2016 European Track Championships and will be the site of the track cycling events for the 2024 Olympic Games. It can hold 6,000 spectators. The second round was hosted in Milton. The racing"
"2015 Tour of Flanders The 2015 Tour of Flanders (in Dutch, ""Ronde van Vlaanderen"") was the 99th edition of the Tour of Flanders one-day cycling race. It took place on 5 April and was the eighth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. The race is one of the cobbled classics and is the second of the cycling monuments on the 2015 calendar. The 2014 champion was Fabian Cancellara; he was not able to defend his title after breaking two vertebrae in a crash at E3 Harelbeke. The race was initially dominated by a breakaway group of up to seven"
"for sprinters. In recent years the total distance of the race was around 250 km. Since 2004, the race has started in Deinze, East-Flanders, south of Ghent. After the unofficial start on the city's Market Square, the route heads west, facing 100 kilometres through the wind-swept flatlands of West Flanders, up to and along the North Sea coast before turning south into the North department of France. After 120 km comes the cobbled Kasselberg climb in Cassel, which is addressed twice in quick succession. After the Katsberg, the second hill in France, the race re-enters Belgium after on French roads,"
"trucks to recover riders who were unable to finish. On 7 July, the Etape recreated stage 20 of the 2013 Tour de France, starting in the town of Annecy and finishing at the ski station of Annecy-Semnoz at an altitude of 1,655m. The 130 km route included the climb of the 1,142m des Prés and the 1,463m Mont Revard. The 2014 event on 20 July 2014 followed a similar route to the 2008 event, beginning in Pau and finishing at Hautacam. The 2015 route began in the Savoie town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, and covered a 140 km course, climbing the Col"
"2015 Étoile de Bessèges The 2015 Étoile de Bessèges (English: ""Star of Bessèges"") was the 45th running of the Étoile de Bessèges road cycling stage race. It was rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour and took place from 4 to 8 February 2015 in southern France, near the town of Bessèges. It was the first stage race of the 2015 European season. The race consisted of five stages, four of which were road stages and the last of which was an individual time trial. The 2014 champion was Tobias Ludvigsson, but his was not selected to"
"2015 Boston Marathon The 2015 Boston Marathon was the 119th running of the Boston Athletic Association's mass-participation marathon. It took place on Monday, April 20 (Patriots Day in Massachusetts). The men's race was won by Lelisa Desisa from Ethiopia in a time of 2:09:17. Caroline Rotich of Kenya won the women's race with a time 2:24:55. The event ran along the same winding course the Marathon has followed for many decades26miles 385yards (42.195 km) of roads and city streets, through eight Massachusetts cities and towns, to the finish line beside the Boston Public Library, on Boylston Street in Boston's Copley"
"2015 Paris–Nice The 2015 Paris–Nice was the 73rd edition of the Paris–Nice stage race. It took place from 8 to 15 March and was the second race of the 2015 UCI World Tour following the Tour Down Under. The race was a return to the traditional format of Paris−Nice after an unorthodox course in 2014. It started in Yvelines, west of Paris, with a prologue time trial; the course then moved south through France with several stages suitable for sprinters. The decisive part of the race began on stage four with a summit finish at the Col de la Croix"
"2015 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11 The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour started in Utrecht, Netherlands on 4 July and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 26 July. On 13 July, between stages nine and ten there was a rest day in Pau. The Tour began on 4 July in the Netherlands, with an individual time trial that started and finished at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht. Because of its length, it did not qualify as a prologue. The course, which featured 20 turns and two"
"on the final stage at intermediate sprints. The race consisted of five stages. Two of these took place on the same day, with a short road stage in the morning and an individual time trial in the afternoon. The three flat stages were seen as opportunities for sprinters such as Nacer Bouhanni (), who was without a victory so far in 2015, while the time trial and the summit finish were expected to decide the general classification. 7 April – Sablé-sur-Sarthe – Varades () 8 April – Varades – Angers () 8 April – Angers ( ITT) 9 April –"
"extra time. Having been a location which the 2012 Tour de France passed through on that year's final stage, Sèvres will host the departure for Stage 21, the final stage of the 2015 Tour de France, on 26 July, heading towards the year's ultimate finish line on the Champs-Élysées. Sèvres has been host to the internet radio station ""GOOM Radio"", since 2007. Sèvres has places of Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant and Buddhist worship. Since January 2010, the commune of Sèvres is part of the deanery of the hills, one of the nine deaneries of the Diocese of Nanterre. Within this"
"believe he had any hope of winning the two-man sprint against one of the quickest finishers in the world?"" 2015 Tour of Flanders The 2015 Tour of Flanders (in Dutch, ""Ronde van Vlaanderen"") was the 99th edition of the Tour of Flanders one-day cycling race. It took place on 5 April and was the eighth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. The race is one of the cobbled classics and is the second of the cycling monuments on the 2015 calendar. The 2014 champion was Fabian Cancellara; he was not able to defend his title after breaking two vertebrae"
"on one of the hottest days of the year so far. Needless to say I will indeed be walking like a cowboy for at least a week. Previously, Vercoe competed in the 2010 North Pole Marathon, representing Great Britain and finishing in second place in a time of 5:07:30 behind Joep Rozendal of the Netherlands. In April 2013, he ran the Marathon des Sables, often billed as the toughest race on earth, finishing in 39th place out of 1,024 runners, then a few days later ran the London Marathon in his desert attire to raise more funds for his chosen"
"to victory in 2012 and Italy's Filippo Pozzato helping resurrect his career with a surprise win in 2013. In 2014 the attackers managed to hold off the chasing peloton, with Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel winning the seven-man sprint. Alexander Kristoff was only two seconds behind, winning the sprint for eighth place. In 2015 it was Kristoff's turn for victory, leading out a bunch sprint of 69 riders. The race starts and finishes in the small village of Plouay, in the heartland of French cycling. The course consists of eight laps of a demanding 27 km circuit and one 14-km lap in"
"as the well-known French race started on 4 July. The route for the race was announced on 9 March 2015. The race did not follow any particular pattern in terms of geographical displacement around the country, but did visit Liechtenstein and Austria on the fifth stage. It was also the longest of the race and may be qualified as the queen stage. It finished near Sölden situated in Austrian territory and featured a mountaintop finish. After that, the race came back in Swiss territory for the remainder of the event. The stages which were likely to be the most important"
"M Dominique Naumowicz 665,225 km<br> W Nicoletta Mizera 616,025 km (5–11 June) Antibes 6 Day Race The Antibes 6 day race (6 Jours d'Antibes) was a multiday race that is now called 6 Jours de France which took place in Antibes starting in 2009 in the Juan-les-Pins in the South of France. Consisting of 24h (not done in 2011), 48h and 72h ultramarathon events along with the 6 day, this and the Trans-Gaule are the two most significant multiday races taking place in France today. Currently the event takes place in Privas, capital of the Ardèche department, in Southern France"
"medallist Rebecca Romero. The pair got just past Johnstone Bridge in Scotland before being forced to stop due to problems with Romero's knees. They were on course to break the record by over three hours. The attempt was to launch the 2010 Ride Across Britain that Cracknell's company organised In April 2010 Cracknell became the highest placed Briton ever in the 25-year history of the Marathon des Sables, finishing 12th. His exploits were filmed for a Discovery Channel documentary ""The Toughest Race on Earth"" to be aired in October 2010. This highest ever placing was beaten in 2013 by another"