Shizo Kanakuri
Futility Closet reports that Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living placidly in southern Japan.
Kanakuri explained that he was overcome with heat during the race, and he stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will never be broken.
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54 years, come on! It was not like he was running for 54 years straight. The record is bull sh!t! People lets pull our heads out of our a**!
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