Yolanda Holder is a professional Ultra Marathon Walker and a 2-time Guinness
World Record holder for “Most Marathons Completed in a Calendar Year”,
finishing a staggering 106 marathons/ultras in 2010 and breaking her own record in
2012 finishing 120 marathons/ultras. Yolanda is the first African American to Run
or Walk over 100 marathons in a calendar year and the first woman in the world to
ever do it twice. Yolanda’s accomplishments are amazing, at the 2017 Sri
Chinmony Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race she set a World Record first
Pedestrian (walker) finishing in 51 Days, 17 hours and 13 seconds and at the 2014
Ultra Marathon USA & World Championship in Anchorage Alaska met her goal of
power walking 400 miles in the Six Day event placing 3rd female and 10th overall.
Yolanda is a finisher of four Six Day Races podium on all four and the American
Woman Record holder 10 Day Race with 622 Miles. She has power walker over
540 lifetime marathons/ultras.
What’s special and close to her heart is “Extreme Walk 4 Diabetes” an annual
event she founded in honor of her parents. Her purpose in life is to inspire and
motivate everyone to take care of their heath by walking 30 minutes a day.
Yolanda is also a wife, mother of two grown children, inspirational speaker and
author.