John Dowling - former men's 6 day racewalking world record holder
John Dowling – former men’s 6 day racewalking world record holder. John (known as Paddy) held the two best 6 day racewalking distances ever recorded for over 30 years from 1984 to 2015

Over 150 athletes from over 20 countries are known to have walked one or more 6-day races. This page lists all world and national records and age group records. A full list of over 500 results can be found here.

The age group that an athlete is in is calculated based on their age on the first day of the race. All distances are in kilometres.

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Note regarding athletes with multiple nationalities:
Different sports have different rules about recognition of national records for athletes with dual or multiple nationalities, and different countries also often have different rules in this area. In the Athletes page you will find a note if the athlete has multiple nationalities and where an athlete has changed, added or revoked a nationality during their six-day racewalking career, they will have multiple listings in the Athletes page.

In this page, we recognise records based on any nationality that the athlete held at the time they competed. For example, Ivo Majetic has held both Czech and US citizenship (nationality) for all of his six-day racewalking career meaning that in any race he competes we recognise him as being both a Czech Republic and US citizen and therefore he has both national and age group records recognised for both countries from the same races.



Information on this page was last updated on 8th July 2025. Click here to be notified next time we update this page.

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