6-hour race (Professionals), Men

This was the major professional distance race held at the 1900 Paris Exposition. There were 49 starters, with the best known being British runner Len Hurst, who had won the 1896 Paris Marathon (the first time that was held), and Albert Charbonnel, a Belgian (possibly French) who had won that race in 1899, and would win again in 1902-03. Hurst would not finish the 6-hour race, however, but one week later he again won the Paris Marathon. The Paris Exposition race was won by Victor Bagré, a Frenchman who finished more than a full kilometre ahead of Charbonnel. Bagré took home 1,500 francs for winning. The fourth-place finisher was Louis Orphée, who later moved to the United States and became a professional distance runner.