Yolanda Holder Professional Ultra Marathon Walker & 2-time Guinness World Record

Feb 26, 2018 · 38m 53s
Yolanda Holder Professional Ultra Marathon Walker & 2-time Guinness World Record
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Yolanda Holder is a professional Ultra Marathon Walker and a 2-time Guinness World Record holder for “Most Marathons Completed in a Calendar Year”, finishing a staggering 106 marathons/ultras in 2010...

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Yolanda Holder is a professional Ultra Marathon Walker and a 2-time Guinness World Record holder for “Most Marathons Completed in a Calendar Year”, finishing a staggering 106 marathons/ultras in 2010 and breaking her own record in 2012 finishing 120 marathons/ultras.  Yolanda is the first African American to Run or Walk over 100 marathons in a calendar year and the first woman in the world to ever do it twice. Yolanda’s accomplishments are amazing, at the 2017 Sri Chinmony Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race she set a World Record first Pedestrian (walker) finishing in 51 Days, 17 hours and 13 seconds and at the 2014 Ultra Marathon USA & World Championship in Anchorage Alaska met her goal of power walking 400 miles in the Six Day event placing 3rd female and 10th overall. Yolanda is a finisher of four Six Day Races podium on all four and the American Woman Record holder 10 Day Race with 622 Miles. She has power walker over 540 lifetime marathons/ultras. What’s special and close to her heart is “Extreme Walk 4 Diabetes” an annual event she founded in honor of her parents.  Her purpose in life is to inspire and motivate everyone to take care of their heath by walking 30 minutes a day. Yolanda is also a wife, mother of two grown children, inspirational speaker and author.
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