The EMU 6 Day Race 2026 will also be the GOMU 6 Day World Championships 2026.
Taking place in Balatonfüred,Hungary, the course is a 898,2m clockwise loop on a paved asphalt surface. The course is well lit along the entire length of the track.
The event is sold out.
Date September 3-9th 2026
Website: www.emusport.hu
A new 6 day race in Germany for 2027 – Six Days Run taking place on Sunday 20.06.2027.
The course is a 1118 meters out and back – a lap is 2236 meters.
The route is described as mostly paved track on slightly undulating terrain.
Location: 72250 Freudenstadt-Grüntal, Haldenstraße 10.
Organised by Thomas Dornburg
Web page: http://neckarlauf.com
Theres still a few days left to enter the EMU 6 day race in Balatonfured, Hungary. The event starts September 8th to September 14th and features the 6 day World Cup team event.
Several former winners of this premier multiday race will be back including last year’s winner Gábor Rakonczay who crossed Greenland with Nóra Vámos earlier this summer in a 600 km expedition in 30 days.
Charlotte Vasarhelyi who won in 2014 returns as does Krisztina Nagyne Bakucz. Lena Jensen also makes up a strong women’s field.
Many familiar names on the entry list including Peter Ludden who has taken part in every edition of the race, Radi Milev, Richard Brown, Fred Davis 111 – a field full of talent and experience.
Theres no doubt the 2021 Six day Race Calendar has been hit hard by covid and the issues it has raised. Earlier in the year we saw the cancellation of Athens, the Sri Chinmoy 6 & 10 Day races in New York, Privas in France, the Kauhajoki Ultra Running Festival in Finland, the debut of Les 6 Jours du Grand Est in France and more recently the Icarus Florida Ultrarunning Festival in the US.
However, its not all doom and gloom. 6 days at the Fair in New Jersy got their Festival in the bag with 48 runners in the 6 day, first of whom was Budjargal Byambaa with 477 miles followed in second place by Jessica Mullen with 434 miles.
The Douglas 6 day in AZ took place though with a very limited field from what I could gather and I haven’t seen all the results yet. The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in Sofia, Bulgaria put a 6 day together at very short notice with just 8 runners which was won by Andrea Marcato (ITA) with 731,76 km (454,70 miles).
The Italian Ultra Marathon Festival (IUMF) in Policoro started on the 14th of March and was won by Matteo Nocera with 625.366 km. The event, organised by RD Pasquale Brandi also included 1000 mile and 1000 km events and there is a Summer Edition planned for September 26th.
Currently 6 days At The Dome is underway in Milwaukee in the US and Eric Wright is staging another Running Festival Wychwood Multiday Circuit Run starting July 9th.
September looks like a busy month as there are three other 6 day races scheduled for the month with the first being EMU in Hungary on September 2nd followed by the inaugural edition of Viadal Ultra Six Days in Sweden on the the 13th.
There’s no 6 day but the Athens International Ultramarathon Festival returns on September 17th with a 48 and a 24 hour at the events original location in Loutraki.
Also starting on the 26th is the Adelaide 6 day in Australia, the last edition sadly, which also includes 72 and 48 hour options.
Across The years has a 6 day and a 10 day planned as well as the 72/48/24 hour options and the Winter Edition of the IUMF starts at the beginning of March 2022.
So things are improving and we all hope that we continue on that trajectory.
A quick look at the 6 Day Races 2021 shows Across the Years 20/21 having been canceled and is offering a virtual 10 day race which started yesterday, December 28th. The first scheduled event of the year will be the 6 Days UMF Winter Edition in Policoro, Italy. Gary Cross has posted the dates of the low key Douglas 6 day so anyone interested in this event in Arizona should get in touch with Gary on his Facebbok page.
There’s no official word yet on the Sri Chinmoy 6 & 10 day races in April but with travel bans still in place, many would-be runners wont be able to get to the event so unless things change significantly in the US, the event may not happen again this year.
The Athens International Ultramarathon Festival is moving back to origin in Loutraki, some 80 km west of Athens and this year it looks like being a more modest program than the 2020 extravaganza.
A new event, the Les 6 Jours du Grand Est (6 Days of the Grand East) takes place in Pont-à-Mousson, north-eastern France coinciding with the Kauhajoki Ultra Running Festival in Finland, two weeks before the 6 Days in the Dome returns to Milwaukee which will no doubt be a star-studded event.
Sweden sees a new 6 day, the Viadal Ultra taking place in Förslöv, about 100km north of Malmo.
Adelaide returns with 72 and 48 hour options and then hopefully, there will be a return of Across The Years in December.
More details and links on the 6 Day Races 2021 calendar.
