Russ Cook, from Worthing, West Sussex, finished his gruelling 352-day run from South Africa to Tunisia on Sunday. But claims he is the first to run the length of Africa have been contested by the World Runners Association.
Russ Cook crossed 16 countries over the equivalent of 385 marathons – more than 16,300 kilometres – surviving machete-wielding villagers, desert sandstorms and crippling bouts of food poisoning.
Russ Cook, nicknamed ‘Hardest Geezer’, claims to be the first person to run the full length of Africa – but that has been disputed by a seven-member association, who say it was first achieved 14 years ago