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A 15-year journey that began as training for the 400-meter hurdles became a record-setting run of consistency, charity, and domination across Florida’s stair-climbing circuit. By Atlas Editorial Team 10 July 2026 • Jacksonville, Florida [USA] The Staircase Finds Him Troy Alston was not looking for a staircase. In 2010, he was chasing something else entirely: the 400-meter hurdles, the Olympic Trials, the clean violence of a race that demands speed, rhythm, nerve, and the ab

Spanish endurance athlete sets a formally verified world record benchmark at the Spartan Race Ultra in Andorra, completing the course in 12 hours and 47 minutes while carrying a weighted vest under Atlas World Records evidence protocols. By Atlas Editorial Team 10 June 2026 • Encamp, Andorra One Body, Four Hearts In the mountains of Andorra, where the course rises into the thin air and the body begins to understand its own frailty, Vicente Blanco Saunders entered the Sparta

Stanislav Zlatarev pushed through more than eleven hours of pain in support of two children's charities, setting the world record for Most Traditional Sit-Ups Completed in 12 Hours (Bent-Knee Definition). By Atlas Editorial Team 10 May 2026 • Varna, Bulgaria THE QUIET DECISION On the morning of his thirty-third birthday, Stanislav Zlatarev did not choose celebration. He chose repetition. The human body is an unusual machine. It can endure remarkable hardship when given a pu

After nearly five decades of competition across roads, mountains, deserts, coastlines, and remote trails around the world, Joan Torné Tuyà has been certified by Atlas World Records for completing 666 half marathons. By Atlas Editorial Team 18 April 2026 • L’Escala, Catalonia [Spain] The Arithmetic of Endurance There are achievements that belong to a single afternoon, and then there are achievements that slowly accumulate across a lifetime until they begin to resemble geogra