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The Athens 7 days race started at 1PM on March 21st. The number of participants is 43, a record high compares to the number of past two versions of race. Mr. WOLFGANG SCHWERK from Germany, is going to defend his title and intends to establish world best performance. While Miss. Edit Berces, from Hungary, the current world best 24h record holder, demostrates strong ambition to place top in the race. Miss.ELKE STREICHER from Germany did not take any sleep for the first night and currently placed third. An army of 11 runners from Taiwan shows Orential style of ultrarunning, they keep a steady pace and take as many  rest as they can in the first day. Dr. Costas Baxevanis, the race director, run in the race as usual. He worked very hard in the past few weeks on organzing race, but still runs strongly on the race route. More details and intermediate results will be posted on