World Record of the Day
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![World Record of the Day: Making good on his promise to set a world record for “Heaviest Person to Complete a Marathon,” 400-pound sumo wrestler Kelly Gneiting crossed the finish line at yesterday’s LA Marathon with a time of 9 hours, 48 minutes, and 42 seconds.
“I was really struggling in the last five miles,” Gneiting told the LA Times, “but I said to myself, ‘If I have to crawl, I will’.”
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World Record of the Day: Making good on his promise to set a world record for “Heaviest Person to Complete a Marathon,” 400-pound sumo wrestler Kelly Gneiting crossed the finish line at yesterday’s LA Marathon with a time of 9 hours, 48 minutes, and 42 seconds.
“I was really struggling in the last five miles,” Gneiting told the LA Times, “but I said to myself, ‘If I have to crawl, I will’.”
