Adele Roberts has become the fastest woman to finish the London Marathon with a stoma bag.
The 44-year-old radio presenter began using a stoma bag in 2021 after surgery for bowel cancer.
She ran the race on Sunday (April 22) and competed it in an impressive three hours 30 minutes and 22 seconds.
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The former I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here campmate was awarded with a Guinness World Record after going over the finish line.
A post shared on the official Guinness World Record’s Twitter account shared a picture of the BBC Radio 1 DJ proudly her certificate after the race, alongside the message: “Adele Roberts completed the fastest marathon with an ileostomy (female) in 3:30:22. Congratulations, Adele!”
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Adele had a tiny replica medal made for her stoma, which she has named Audrey, which she shared in a video posted on her Instagram story.
She said: “We got the record. I was like ‘oh my gosh did we actually do it’.
“For ages I didn’t know my time because my watch broke and I couldn’t tell because I set off quite late so I was just really hoping that I’d managed to do it.”
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Adele continued: “Thank you so much to everybody who was actually in the race, there was so many lovely people on the course and also everybody who came out the cheer even though it was raining. We did it, up yours cancer.”
The TV personality also revealed that she had been “crying her eyes out” when finishing the run.
She said: “It was almost serendipitous that when I was finishing, the final song that was playing was Whitney Houston One Moment In Time and I was like crying my eyes out as I finished.”
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The night before the big challenge, Adele shared a picture on Instagram of all her marathon running equipment, hash-tagging Rebellious Hope – a phrase coined by Dame Deborah James who died from bowel cancer in June last year.
Adele announced she was cancer-free in June last year after revealing in October 2021 that she had been diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer.
She later underwent surgery to remove a tumour and began using a stoma bag.
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