Jerusalem Report

Wheelchair to marathon

Israeli entrepreneur invents external skeleton allowing paraplegic to complete marathon.

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Photo by: Reuters
I have run two marathons: Boston and New York. The Boston Marathon took me over five hours. This is very slow – the current world record time for men is 2 hours, 3 minutes and 38 seconds, set by Patrick Makau of Kenya.

But the greatest marathon record by far, in my view, is the one set by Claire Lomas in London in May: 16 days.

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