Michael Wardian

Michael Wardian, born April 12, 1974, is an American marathoner and ultra-marathoner who won the US 50 km championships in 2008, 2009 and 2010, the 2011 US 50 mile championship and the 2008 US National 100 km championship. He is also the 2007 JFK 50 Mile champion and a six-time winner of the National Marathon in Washington, D.C., winning in 2006 to 2008 and again in 2010 to 2012. He has set 25 Fastest Known Time running records in five countries, including the speed record for the 631-mile Israel National Trail in 2019. He is known for the vast number of marathons he enters: in 2007 he ran 13 marathons not counting ultramarathons, and seven marathons in a span of nine weeks, winning three, and he often races locally around Washington, D.C.