The fastest marathon in a superhero costume (male) is 2 hr 33 min 58 sec, achieved by Stephane Hetherington (Canada) at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 14 October 2012. Hetherington dressed as “The Flash,” and ran to raise money for the Etobicoke Track & Field Club. He missed out on setting the record in 2011 by 12 seconds.
The fastest marathon dressed as a superhero (female) is 2 hr 48 min 51 sec and was achieved by Camille Herron (USA), dressed as Spider-Man, at the 2012 Route 66 Marathon in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, on 18 November 2012. Camille actually woman the female category of the marathon, finishing fifth overall, and knocked over 20 minutes off the previous record.
The fastest marathon in school uniform (female) is 4 hr 14 min 46 sec and was achieved by Louise Winstanley (UK) at the Virgin London Marathon, London, UK, on 25 April 2010. Louise was running for the charity Friends of St Saviour’s School.
The fastest marathon completed on crutches using one leg is 6 hr 42 min and 47 sec and was achieved by Simon Baker (UK) at the 2008 Dublin City Marathon, Dublin, Ireland, on 27 October 2008. Simon was running for the Bubble Gum Club charity.
The fastest marathon on crutches was 6 hr 24 min 48 sec by John Sandford Hart (UK) at the 2011 Virgin London Marathon in London, UK, on 17 April 2011. Sandford Hart uses a prosthetic right leg after having it amputated in 2009. This record is for the use of two legs on crutches, while a separate category is monitored for only allowing one foot to touch the ground the entire race.
Jan Skorkovsky of Prague, Czechoslovakia kept a football up while he travelled a distance of 42.195 km (26.219 miles) for the Prague City Marathon in 7 hr 18 min 55 sec on 8 July 1990. If the participant lost control of the ball, he had to return to the last point where the ball had remained under control and restart from there.
The fastest marathon run by a married couple on aggregate time is 5 hr 28 min 23 sec, and was run by Kenta and Noriko Sato (both Japan) at the Tokyo Marathon 2014, in Tokyo, Japan, on 23 February 2014. Kenta Sato completed the marathon in 2 hr 39 min 14 sec and Noriko Sato completed it in 2 hr 49 min 9 sec.
The fastest time to run a marathon while pushing a pram is 2 hr 42 min 21 sec by Michael Wardian (USA) at the Frederick Marathon, Frederick, Maryland, USA, on 6 May 2007. His nine month old son, Pierce, was sat on the pram for the duration of the race. The Wardians finished 3rd overall in the race.
The record for the fastest marathon on stilts is 8 hr 25 min and was achieved by Michelle Frost (UK) at the Flora London Marathon 2008, in London, UK, on 13 April 2008. The GWR Team Marathon adjudicated. She was the last attempter to arrive.
The fastest marathon run by parent and child on aggregate is 5 hr 18 min 35 sec and was achieved by Graham Green and his son Ben Green (both UK) at the 2014 Virgin London Marathon, in London, UK, on 13 April 2014. The pair were not aware they had broken the record until after the race when a friend joked about it and they researched the record.