57 people from 20 countries completed the race in total.Ĭhris retired from her job as a head teacher at 60, and decided to use her free time to run marathons. Go girls, you CAN do it!!”Ĭhris and her husband Richard are planning to get the paperwork in order to officially claim the record after Christmas. I hope my achievement will inspire other older women to dream big and achieve what they might have previously thought impossible. Read more: Woman, 22, among death notices and funeral announcements from the Huddersfield Examiner this weekĬhris told YorkshireLive : 'When I retired and started my fitness transformation, I never dreamt it would result in me becoming a world record holder. Out of all the women who competed, she came 11th.

It means she should have broken the Guinness World Record for the oldest woman to ever complete the race near the South Pole.Ĭhris, from Clayton West, finished the marathon in eight hours, 33 minutes and 11 seconds. A Kirklees grandma is thought to have become the oldest woman to complete a gruelling glacial marathon as she crossed the finish line earlier this week.Ĭhris Hobson, 69, completed the Antarctic Ice Marathon at Union Glacier on Wednesday, December 14.

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