Harry Styles runs Berlin Marathon under fake name, achieves his fastest time yet
He crossed the finish line in two hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds—a personal milestone and his first time finishing under the three-hour mark.
On Sunday morning in Berlin, the world’s eyes were on the thousands of runners taking on one of the flattest, fastest marathon routes in the world.
But among the 55,000 pounding the pavements, one runner stood out—not because of flashy trainers or a headline-grabbing outfit, but because his name on the entry list was not real.
Registered as “Sted Sarandos,” the man in question was none other than Harry Styles.
The British singer and actor showed another side of himself as he crossed the finish line in two hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds—a personal milestone and his first time finishing under the three-hour mark.
For someone better known for his sold-out concert tickets than his running shoes, the achievement quickly went viral.
According to running podcast Citius Mag, this was a career-best for Styles, who shaved almost 25 minutes off his Tokyo Marathon result earlier this year, when he clocked 3:24:07. Runner’s World reported that in Berlin he kept an average pace of 6:50 minutes per mile, moving at a steady 8.77 miles per hour.
Although his performance left him just four minutes and 13 seconds shy of qualifying for the prestigious Boston Marathon, the improvement was remarkable. He ranked 2,241st overall and 524th in his over-30 age group, as reported by The Athletic.
The race itself was won by Kenya’s Sebastian Sawe, who completed the 42-kilometre course in 2:02:15—his third major win of the year following triumphs in Valencia and London.
Berlin, with its famously flat terrain, has long been the stage for record-breaking runs, though Sawe narrowly missed the world record of 2:00:35 set by Kelvin Kiptum. Eliud Kipchoge still holds Berlin’s fastest time at 2:01:09.
For Styles, however, the victory was much more personal. He even found himself finishing roughly a minute behind Paralympian Richard Whitehead, the two-time gold and silver medalist in the 100m and 200m.
Whitehead, who famously set the world record for the fastest marathon by a bilateral knee amputee with his 2:41:36 run in Chicago last year, shared a photo with Styles after the race on Instagram.
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