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Australian Pat Farmer: An Australian woman has set a new world record for the longest run in a polar region after completing an ultramarathon in Antarctica.

Donna Urquhart on Friday crossed the finish line on a 1,312-kilometer run that started on December 15, reports Xinhua.

Urquhart ran up to 60 km each day in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius in an attempt to set a new world record for the longest polar run ever completed, beating the previous record of 1,198 km over 19 days set by fellow Australian Pat Farmer.