Sufiya Sufi

Sufiya Sufi is an Indian athlete from Ajmer, Rajasthan, born in 1987, who is the first female runner to complete the Manali to Leh ultramarathon, which she did in 2021. After quitting her job in 2017 she ran from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, about 6,000 kilometres through four major cities in 110 days, and she covered the 485 kilometre Manali to Leh stretch on foot in 6 days 12 hours 6 minutes. The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed her as the fastest runner across Qatar from north to south, 200 kilometres in 30 hours 31 minutes, and recognised her for the most marathons run in a calendar year by a woman in 2018 and for the fastest woman to run the Golden Quadrilateral highway network in 2021.