Disabled South African athlete Jacky Hunt-Broersma impressed the world after completing 102 marathons in 102 days, a goal that had been proposed some time ago and with which she managed to set a women’s world record not official this Thursday.
“I’m happy to have achieved it, I can’t believe it”, he commented. “The best thing was the incredible support I received from people all over the world who reached out and told me how this inspired them to push themselves,” he added.
Although the record is not yet official as Guinness World Records did not respond to a request for comment , the athlete insists that she will complete two more marathons to reach 104. “I could also end April with a marathon,” he told The Associated Press.
Although the answer from Guinness World Records could take up to a year, this mark achieved by Hunt-Broersma is reflected as an unofficial record ma since it also exceeds the male record held by the Italian Enzo Caporaso, who achieved 46 marathons on 92 days in the year 2019.
The feat achieved by the athlete from 46 years, started on 17 of January running the average distance of a marathon of 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles) near his home in Gilbert, Arizona. From that moment he has repeated it every day until reaching what he has achieved today.
The initial objective of the woman born in South Africa was to achieve the mark of the 100 marathons in 100 days, with the intention of breaking the record of 95 set in 2020 by able-bodied runner from Bennington, Vermont, Alyssa Amos Clark, who achieved it as a strategy to overcome the Covid pandemic.
However, Jacky Hunt-Broersma’s original goal had to be modified when able-bodied British runner Kate Jayden unofficially broke Clark’s record with 100 marathons on 102 days at the beginning of this month, which led the disabled athlete to achieve a minimum of 102.
This route that the protagonist of this story has accumulated, is a total of 4,300 kilometers (
It should be noted that during this tour, Hunt- Broersma began to greatly increase the number of followers on his social networks and raised almost $26,17 dollars to help other amputee razor runners to get the expensive prosthetics they need.
It should be noted that the athlete who lost her left leg below the knee due to a rare cancer, completed her race number 92 from at the Boston Marathon that was held this month.
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