RUNNER ON A MISSION
‘I THOUGHT THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN RUNNING, SO I DECIDED TO TRY IT’
ONE woman, one leg, 104 marathons in 104 days.
This is the incredible feat performed by Jacky Hunt-Broersma – and one that could well have landed her a Guinness World Record.
The 46-year-old South African-born athlete recently smashed both the female amputee and able-bodied record for the most consecutive marathons completed.
The people at Guinness are in the process of reviewing the evidence and a final decision is imminent.
She wants it badly, Jacky says – both as an affirmation of her own resilience and to show other differently-abled people that adversity really is
