The Commonwealth Ultra Distance Championship was held in Llandudno on the 23rd and 24th September 2011. Athletes run a looped course for 24 hrs and the winner is he or she who runs the furthest. The winner was England's Lizzy Hawker (25), who finished the Gloddaeth Street course two laps ahead of second placed John Pares from Buckley, Flintshire. Lizzy set a world best performance for a woman, also breaking the British and Commonwealth 100 mile (161km) record and became the world record holder.