Lewis Kent can add a world title, and an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to his beer mile resume.
The 21-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., won the FloTrack Beer Mile world championships in world-record time Tuesday.
The victory came hours after he made an appearance on Tuesday's episode of "Ellen."
Kent ran four minutes 47.17 seconds in Austin, Tex., to lower his own world record and win the global beer mile title. The race, invented in the late 1970s by Canadian university track athletes, has participants chug a beer then run a lap. The process is repeated for each of the four laps of a mile.
"And when do you throw up?" DeGeneres asked Kent in the interview that was filmed Monday.
"Hopefully you don't throw up. But if you do throw up, there's a penalty - you have to run another lap." Kent replied, prompting laughter from the audience.
Corey Gallagher, a mailman from Winnipeg, won the silver Tuesday in Austin.
Kent has skyrocketed to fame since a world-record run of 4:51.9 last month in London, Ont. He's done interviews with everyone from ESPN to Sports Illustrated to celebrity news service TMZ.
Tuesday's "Ellen" episode had Kent and show staff member Andy Zenor running a beer race outside the Burbank, Calif., studio. The Canadian handily won the race that finished on stage, and received a gaudy trophy topped with a beer mug from DeGeneres, plus a year's supply of his favourite beer.
"Lewis Kent is the world champion in a sport that combines drinking and running ... or as I call it, a typical Tuesday night," DeGeneres said in her introduction.
Kent also signed a shoe deal with Brooks after his record run last month.
