German Athlete Covered a Marathon in Burpee Broad Jumps and Set a World Record

Kevin Ociepka has covered a marathon distance in burpee broad jumps, dropping to the floor and jumping forward for 42.195K on an athletics track in central Germany. He started on Sept. 2 and stopped the clock six and a half days later at 155:44:51. He is the third man to do this, and all three have done it inside the past 11 months.

Mann Sharma of India got there first, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi in October 2025. The Tribune, which covered the finish, put it at nine days; the figure that circulated afterwards, and the one Baunatal used when it announced Ociepka’s attempt, was about 197 hours. Norman Eigl went next, in July, at Woree State High School in Cairns, Australia, raising money for the homelessness charity Rosies. The French site u-Trail reports his time as 180:36:05, a little over seven and a half days. Ociepka has taken another 24 hours and 51 minutes off that.

None of the three has a record that anyone with real authority keeps. Guinness World Records does recognize burpee broad jumps, at 100m, where Mario Silvestri of Italy went 2:14 in Venafro in March 2025, and at one mile, where Travis Owles of Britain went 1:00:44 in Chelmsford in September 2024. There is no marathon category. Sharma’s mark was ratified by the World Book of Records, a London body with no connection to Guinness. Eigl’s was logged with the Australian Book of Records, according to u-Trail. Ociepka’s 155:44:51 is, so far, the time his crew called at the finish. Marathon oddities usually do get certified properly, and Guinness signed off on 38 of them in London this April alone.

The movement is station four of the eight in a HYROX race, the best known of the hybrid fitness events. Chest to the ground on every rep, then up, then a two-footed jump that has to land square. Stagger the landing and it does not count. In a race the station runs 80 meters, once, halfway through. Ociepka did the equivalent of 527 of them, end to end.

He did it at the Parkstadion in Baunatal, where he grew up. The town put the attempt into its 60th anniversary program and opened the stadium so that neighbors could come and take a turn on the track themselves. Organizers set the plan at 30,000 repetitions and 108 laps, which comes out at 1.41 meters of ground per jump. The week also raised money for a children’s cancer foundation.

The clock runs through everything. Sleep counts, meals count, and so does every hour spent flat on his back between sessions, which is timed the way a multi-day ultramarathon is rather than the way a race is. Work the average out across the full six and a half days and Ociepka was moving one mile every five hours and 56 minutes. Owles, going flat out, needed 1:00:44 for one.

The record was never the main event of his year. Ociepka told the Baunataler Nachrichten that the idea came out of a training camp on Crete last year, where he covered a mile in burpee broad jumps and reckoned he had unofficially beaten the standing mark for that distance. Sharma saw the post. Ociepka trains up to nine times a week, and his best over the full eight-station HYROX race is 1:03:49, from Frankfurt in 2025. What he wants next year is a place at the HYROX world championships in Hong Kong.