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Andrea Lambrou

Guinness World Record for Lanarkshire teen after gruelling charity mountain race

A teenage fundraiser from East Kilbride has been awarded a Guinness World Record for smashing a charity Mount Kilimanjaro race in memory of his football coach.

Harvey Mitchell-Divers won the world’s highest endurance race - a half marathon - as part of the Uhuru Peak Challenge, also coming second in the vertical kilometre element of the challenge.

The 17-year-old used UWS’s state-of-the-art environmental chamber to train ahead of the challenge.

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