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Hannah Cottrell and Josh Salisbury

Russ Cook: ‘Hardest Geezer’ makes history as first person to run full length of Africa

A man from West Sussex has become the first person to run the full length of Africa after he crossed the finish line in Tunisia.

Russ Cook, from Worthing, spent 352 days taking on the mammoth challenge which has seen him cover more than 16,000km, take over 19 million steps and pass through 16 countries while raising money for charity.

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