Kaneenika Janakova

Kaneenika Janakova is an ultra-distance runner from Cerova near Senica, Slovakia, born in 1970 and living in New York, and a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, from whom she took the name Kaneenika. Her first marathon in 1996 took 4 hours 45 minutes, and between 1998 and 2014 she ran 6, 12, 24 and 48 hour races, then six day races from 2001, followed by 700 mile, 1000 mile and ten day races. Between 2001 and 2006 she completed four six day races and set Slovak national records of 713 kilometres in six days, 1,170 kilometres in ten days and 1,000 miles in 15 days 19 hours. She ran her first 3100 mile race in 2015 and won the 2017 Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in a world record.