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= Nikitas Nomikos = (born 16 March 1957) is a Greek endurance runner, specialist in multiday ultramarathons. He holds the Pan-Hellenic track record for the races of 7 days, 6 days, 1000Km, 1000miles, held in Athens International Ultramarathon Festival. He became the first Greek runner ever to have completed the 1000miles in Athens IUF under the limit time of 16 days.

Biography
He is working as a chemist at the General Chemical State Laboratory in Athens. A serious traffic accident, however, changed his life in 1995. The accident that almost killed him has given him a physical disability, hemianopsia (a diminished field of vision). After this accident he refused to let the disability to define him, so he decided to deal with the running. He considers running as a gift that would allow him to get to know himself better and let him confront life positively. Along with his professional and family obligations he began running training.

Running experience
Since then, he has run dozens of street races smaller than the marathon.
 * In 2002 he decided to engage in running his first marathon in Athens. Since then he has run 13 Athens classic marathons with best performance 3 hours: 32 minutes.

Ultramarathons

 * By 2005 Nikitas Nomikos decided to participate in the more demanding ultramarathons, which are  races longer than the marathon distance (41,195Km). His first ultramarathon was a 12-hour race, organized by the Apollon club of Western Attica.
 * In 2006 he ran in Loutraki in the first International Ultramarathon Festival, organized by the Association of Greek Dayrunners. In 24 hours race he ran 172 Km.

Since then, the Association of Greek Dayrunners has organized 14 more International Ultramarathon Festivals in Athens, where he took part successfully in the following races :
 * 48 hours – 2 times in 2016, 2018
 * 6 days - 4 times in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017. Best performance: 726Km. Nikitas Nomikos holds the Pan-Hellenic track record of 6 days.
 * 7 days - 3 times in 2007, 2008, 2009. Best Performance: 817Km. Nikitas Nomikos holds the Pan-Hellenic track record of 7 days.
 * 1000 Km - 1 time in 2011. Performance: 8-days 22-hours 28-minutes. Nikitas Nomikos holds the Pan-Hellenic track record of 1000Km.
 * 1000 Miles (1,609.34 km) - 2 times in 2010 and 2012.

In 2012 he was the only runner in the race who finished it (time limit 16 days). Performance: 15 days 22 hours 41 minutes. Nikitas Nomikos holds the Pan-Hellenic track record of 1000miles. He became the second Greek after Giannis Kouros finishing 1000 miles in less than 16 days. Undoubtedly, there is no comparison with the amazing times of Yannis Kouros. This race is very important to Nikitas for another reason. On the occasion of the success in this race, an interview of Nikitas was published in issue 57 of the RUNNER MAGAZINE. Another ultrarunner revealed to Nikitas that the reading of this interview inspired him to deal with running. Ultrarunning became a therapeutic tool that allowed him to dissociate himself from the depression, in which the new business conditions trapped him during the crisis in Greece and from which he had not managed to escape despite medical help. Today he has again found the smile of optimism and lives happy with his family.

Other ultramarathons in which he participated and successfully finished: By finishing successfully this race one of his big goals became reality.
 * Euchidios Athlos, 107Km Plataea - Delphi (2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016)
 * Euchidios Hyper-Athlos, 215Km Delphi - Plataea - Delphi (2009, 2014, 2015, 2017)
 * Race 100 Km (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
 * Saronic Road Race, 63Km (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2018)
 * Cronion Perasma, 70Km (2014, 2015, 2016)
 * Immortal’s Road Race, 142Km (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
 * Asia Minor Road Race, 104,5 Km (2016)
 * 1st Authentic Phidipidis Road Race, 490Km Athens-Sparta-Athens, (2015 organized by Greek Dayrunners, he finished at Sparta in 42 hours: 45 minutes(no support for return to Athens).
 * 2nd Authentic Phidipidis Road Race, 490Km Athens-Sparta-Athens, (2016, organized by the Athletic Cultural Association "ATHENIANSRUNNINGCLUB") . Nikitas Nomikos finished in Athens in 99 hours: 49 minutes.


 * No Finish Line Athens 90 hours race - 3 times in 2007, 2008, 2009. Best Performance: 418Km (3nd place).

By now Nikitas Nomikos has finished successfully in 53 ultramarathons, as recorded on the websites of DUV: http://statistik.d-u-v.org/getresultperson.php?&runner=14998&Language=EN

Future goals
Challenges do not stop. He is always trying to transcend his known limits, under the condition of being healthy. As he declares “My goal is, by running endurance races, to inspire people to become a better version of themselves. The only limits you have are the ones you set on yourself. Live beyond them.”