Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto | |
Birth Name: | Pekka Aalto |
Nationality: | Finnish |
Birth Date: | 27 August 1970 |
Country: | Finland |
Sport: | Ultramarathon |
Event: | 3100 miles run |
Club: | Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team |
Pb: | 40 days 09:06:21 (2015) |
Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto (born August 27, 1970) is a Finnish ultramarathon runner who began running as a hobby at age 25. He currently works as a courier. Aalto is a member of The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. In 2006, Tarja Halonen, the President of Finland, recognized him as an "International Ambassador of Sport".
In 1999, he started running multi-day races. He ranked all-time second at the 3100-mile Race in 2006. On October 29, 2006, Aalto finished the San Francisco One Day 24 hour endurance race in first place, logging just over 125miles in a 24-hour period. Aalto is a three-time champion of The Self-Transcendence Six Day Race in New York City. For three straight years he ran all three yearly Self-Transcendence multidays in New York (six days, 3100miles, 700 miles).
He won the world's longest certified footrace, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race nine times, finishing the 2015 race at record time 40 days 09:06:21 for a daily average of 76.776miles.
1999 | Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio 700-Mile Race | 700 | 09:09:10:40 | 1. | |
2000 | Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio 700-Mile Race | 700 | 09:09:44:59 | 1. | |
2000 | Self-Transcendence 10 Day Race | 669 | 10:00:00:00 | 2. | |
2000 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 47:13:29:55 | 1. | |
2001 | Self-Transcendence 10 Day Race | 349 | 10:00:00:00 | - | |
2001 | Sri Chinmoy Ultra Trio 700-Mile Race | 700 | 09:20:32:29 | 1. | |
2001 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 48:10:56:12 | 1. | |
2002 | Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race | 422 | 06:00:00:00 | 1. | |
2002 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 46:13:27:51 | 2. | |
2003 | Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race | 457 | 06:00:00:00 | 1. | |
2004 | Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race | 433 | 06:00:00:00 | 1. | |
2004 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 46:06:55:11 | 1. | |
2005 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 49:10:28:49 | 2. | |
2006 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 43:15:49:33 | 2. | |
2007 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 43:04:26:32 | 1. | |
2008 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 44:02:42:15 | 1. | |
2009 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 43:16:28:06 | 1. | |
2010 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 46:07:37:24 | 1. | |
2011 | Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race | 467 | 06:00:00:00 | 2. | |
2011 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 46:07:37:24 | 3. | |
2012 | Self-Transcendence 6 Day Race | 470 | 06:00:00:00 | 2. | |
2013 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 48:16:14:33 | 3. | |
2014 | Self-Transcendence 10 Day Race | 833 | 10:00:00:00 | 1. | |
2015 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 40:09:06:21 | 1. | |
2016 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 46:02:54:22 | 2. | |
2019 | Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race | 3100 | 47:01:39:34 | 1. |