Daniel, last year’s joint champion, together with Australia’s Mick Thwaites. Came fifith this year at MGU. Daniel agreed to come to the race at short notice and had been preparing for lomng flat races - as the result he suffered on the long ups and downs in Gaoligong! This Englishman specializes in very long distances – he is 2016 European 24-hour champion and was runner up at Spartathlon the same year. Last year Daniel achieved an incredible feat of winning the 400km Ultra Gobi in just over 70 hours, on less than one hour sleep.