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Extreme marathon runner Russ Cook accomplished his run throughout the complete size of Africa in Tunisia on Sunday after travelling by 16 international locations, with the 352day odyssey together with being robbed at gunpoint and struggling meals poisoning.
Extreme marathon runner Russ Cook accomplished his run throughout the complete size of Africa in Tunisia on Sunday after travelling by 16 international locations, with the 352-day odyssey together with being robbed at gunpoint and struggling meals poisoning.
Cook began his journey final April at Africa’s most southerly level, the South African village of L’Agulhas, and proceeded up the continent’s west coast, working a complete of over 16,000 kilometres.
“The first person ever to run the entire length of Africa. Mission complete,” Cook posted on social media platform X.
The 27-year-old handed by Namibia, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania and Algeria, earlier than arriving at Ras Angela on Sunday night.
The endurance athlete, who calls himself the “Hardest Geezer”, has additionally raised greater than half a thousands and thousands kilos for charity alongside the way in which.
“The main goal is to challenge yourself and do something incredible which is what ‘Hardest Geezer’ is all about,” Simon Klima of Givestar charity platform informed Reuters.
“Simultaneously raise a lot of money for some really important causes, that’s happening on the Givestar platform, so we are very privileged to have that happening there.
“So far nearly 600,000 pounds ($758,160.00) has been raised for two charities, Sandblast and the Running charity. Hopefully, going to hit a million pounds, Russ will hit a million pounds with his fundraiser, that’s the target.”
Cook was accompanied by supporters on the ultimate leg of his journey, a lot of whom had flown out particularly to be there.
“I saw the post on Instagram where he invited everyone out. I was laying on my couch, it was a Sunday afternoon, I saw it and he said everybody can come,” Warren Blake from the U.S. informed Reuters.
“I just couldn’t miss a crazy historic opportunity like this.”
Cook, carrying an England soccer jersey, arrived on the end to chants of “Geezer, geezer”, telling reporters: “I’m pretty tired”, earlier than having fun with a well-earned strawberry daiquiri.
($1 = 0.7914 kilos)
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
