Harvey Lewis (ultrarunner)

Harvey Lewis is an American ultrarunner born in 1976 in Wheeling, West Virginia, who grew up in Berea, Ohio, and works as a high school teacher in Cincinnati. He represented Team USA at the IAU 24 Hour World Championship in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2017. In July 2014 he won the Badwater Ultramarathon in just under 23 hours 53 minutes and tied for second at the Arrowhead 135 the same year. He won Big Dog Backyard Ultra in October 2021, and in October 2023 he set a Backyard Ultra record by completing 108 laps, 450 miles, over five days. A vegan, he credits a plant-based diet for his endurance, and in 2008 and 2009 he ran routes retracing the Salt March and the Selma to Montgomery march.