![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0003/6291/011320_Dani_Blocker_exo.large.jpg?1578938510&1578938509 "Adam Gorlitsky (second from left) and well-wishers at the 25-mile marker.")
A man paralyzed from the waist down has broken the world record for finishing a marathon in an exoskeleton suit.
Competing in the 2020 Charleston (SC) Marathon, Adam Gorlitsky finished the race with a time of 33 hours, 50 minutes, and 23 seconds, unofficially beating a British man who completed the 2018 London Marathon in 36 hours and 46 minutes, according to Guinness World Records.
Gorlitsky was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from a severe spinal cord injury in December 2005. Ten years later, he was able to stand and walk using a ReWalk Robotic Exoskeleton.
In 2016, Gorlitsky became the first paralyzed man to walk the Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston using a robotic exoskeleton, and founded the non-profit I GOT LEGS to improve the lives of the disabled.
From CNN
View Full Article
Abstracts Copyright © 2020 SmithBucklin, Washington, DC, USA
