Kevin Lin

Kevin Lin is a Taiwanese ultramarathon runner from Taipei, born on 19 November 1976, who also served as vice chairperson of the Cultural Communication Commission of the Kuomintang. He is one of the best known endurance athletes in Asia. As a full-time graduate student he won his first 150-mile race, across the Atacama Desert in Chile, in 2004. Together with Charlie Engle and Ray Zahab he became the first modern runner to cross the Sahara Desert, finishing on 21 February 2007, in an expedition for the H2O Africa project that began in Senegal and ended in Egypt and was filmed as the documentary Running the Sahara. In September 2011 he completed a 10,000 kilometre run of the Silk Road, and in 2016 he executive produced the sports film 10,000 Miles.