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Kelly Gneiting, a 400-pound sumo wrestler, set a Guinness World Record as the heaviest man to complete a marathon, after finishing on Sunday in 9 hours 48 minutes 52 seconds.
Gneiting weighed 396.2 pounds after the marathon, smashing the past world record of 275 pounds and beating his 2008 marathon time of 11:52:11.
"I'd like to see the Kenyan improve his marathon time by two hours," he joked.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/03/la-marathon-its-official-kelly-gneiting-sets-guiness-world-record-as-heaviest-man-.html#sthash.fqclDzIs.dpuf
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/03/la-marathon-its-official-kelly-gneiting-sets-guiness-world-record-as-heaviest-man-.html
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/sumo-wrestler-breaks-world-record-for-heaviest-man-to-complete-marathon-032011
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/olympics/news/story?id=6242378
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm07iPOl4ko



Kelly Gneiting, a 400-pound sumo wrestler, set a Guinness World Record as the heaviest man to complete a marathon, after finishing on Sunday in 9 hours 48 minutes 52 seconds.
Gneiting weighed 396.2 pounds after the marathon, smashing the past world record of 275 pounds and beating his 2008 marathon time of 11:52:11.
"I'd like to see the Kenyan improve his marathon time by two hours," he joked.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/03/la-marathon-its-official-kelly-gneiting-sets-guiness-world-record-as-heaviest-man-.html#sthash.fqclDzIs.dpuf
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/03/la-marathon-its-official-kelly-gneiting-sets-guiness-world-record-as-heaviest-man-.html
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/sumo-wrestler-breaks-world-record-for-heaviest-man-to-complete-marathon-032011
http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/olympics/news/story?id=6242378

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I heard Manny Yarborough is trying to lose weight as well. Not sure if running is the best option though, must be hard on the knees with all that upper body weight. Hope it works out for him though0
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I heard Manny Yarborough is trying to lose weight as well. Not sure if running is the best option though, must be hard on the knees with all that upper body weight. Hope it works out for him though
I am not going to debate your point about it being hard on the knees. Clearly this was a major achievement for him. I just want people to know that anything is possible. With lots of hard work the "impossible" can be achieved.0 -
Absolutely awesome!!0
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If I start running again without losing weight I could beat that record.0
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Well done that man!0
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Cool!! And sumo wrestlers are awesome!! (and fit)0
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Abso-fuc*in-lutely!0
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If I start running again without losing weight I could beat that record.
That is an awesome goal! However running enough to train for a marathon likely will result in significant weight loss.0 -
I love this. thanks for sharing.0
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If I start running again without losing weight I could beat that record.
That is an awesome goal! However running enough to train for a marathon likely will result in significant weight loss.
Believe me. I can outeat any calorie burn if I wanted to. But I should probably start with a mile. lol0 -
Assuming he ran all of it, that's a 6500 calorie burn....0
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Assuming he ran all of it, that's a 6500 calorie burn....0
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If I start running again without losing weight I could beat that record.
That is an awesome goal! However running enough to train for a marathon likely will result in significant weight loss.
Believe me. I can outeat any calorie burn if I wanted to. But I should probably start with a mile. lol
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That's such an awesome story. I love jogging and can't wait to get my ankle back into good shape so I can do it again.0
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If I start running again without losing weight I could beat that record.0
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What a fantastic story0
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