Singer Harry Styles appears to have run the Berlin Marathon in under three hours.

Photos, widely shared online, show the former One Direction star embarking on Sunday's long-distance race dressed in shorts, brightly coloured trainers, a dark top, sunglasses and a headband.

The Watermelon Sugar singer, 31, completed the run in two hours 59 minutes and 13 seconds, according to the BMW Berlin Marathon app, where users can search for participants' race times by bib number.

The profile associated with Styles' bib number shows he went under the alias Sted Sarandos.

It follows reports in March that he finished the Tokyo Marathon in three hours, 24 minutes and seven seconds.

Paralympic gold medallist Richard Whitehead posted a photo of them on Instagram and wrote: "2.58 in Berlin with my

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