Athlete Bio

Viktoria Brown is a Hungarian-Canadian ultrarunner, 7-time World Champion, previously World Record Holder, 3 x Canadian National Record Holder who also competes in triathlon as an age grouper, orienteering / rogaining, snowshoeing and adventure racing. 

She started running for weight loss in 2015, after her 3rd daughter was born, at the age of 40. She finished her first Ironman race in 2017. Her break-through season came in 2020 when she won the Hungarian National Long-Course Triathlon Championship and a month later she ran her first ultra, a 24h timed race where she broke the course record, broke the Canadian soil record, came 1st overall including men and became the No1 selection for the Canadian National 24h Team. She broke the Canadian 48h ultrarunning open record 2 months later.

She went on to hold 3 National Records by 2021 and a World Record (72 hours) in 2022. She became a 7-time GOMU world champion in the 48-hour and 6-day formats, and her current Canadian women's 48-hour record is higher than the men's and it is the 2nd best female result of all time for a North-American woman.

Private Life

Viktoria Brown is a mother of 3 young girls and a serial entrepreneur. She was born in Hungary where she finished 3 undergraduate courses in Economics and International Marketing; Broadcast Media and Television Directing and Software Engineering. Her first career was in broadcast journalism, she worked for Hungarian TV and radio channels, commentated on the equestrian events at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, interviewed celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Sandra Bullock and ended her journalism career working for the BBC as a presenter and editor in London, England. After her department was closed down by the BBC she got interested in playing poker for a living and played professionally, as a sponsored poker player, online and live for several years. Her best result was a 13th place at the WSOP (World Championship) in Las Vegas, NV, USA in 2009 out of 3000 participants and online a 2nd place at the Sunday Warm-up tournament out of 4000 players. She quit playing poker after her first child was born. 

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