Published: February 07, 2019
Susannah Gill beats women’s record for World Marathon Challenge
What started out as a “crazy ambition” yesterday ended in a world record as the British runner Susannah Gill successfully completed seven marathons across seven continents in seven days to win the gruelling World Marathon Challenge in the fastest time by a women athlete.
Along the way Gill, a 34-year-old from London, braved -35C temperatures in Antarctica and 35C heat in Cape Town before finishing the event in Miami in a total time of 24 hours 19 minutes and nine seconds – an average of three hours and 28 minutes per marathon – to beat the previous record by more than three hours.
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