Aussie sets Guinness World Record post hopping on crutches for10 kms

Australian runner Brad Luiten has set a Guinness World Record after hopping on crutches for 10 kilometres.

The Arkles Bay national-class runner said that it is horribly hard and apparently there has been a study done that says moving on crutches you expend twice as much energy as running and he reckons it is more exhausting than that, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Luiten had a time of 34min 58s at the 5km mark, blitzing Guinness World Records' existing champion times for male and female of 64m 50s and 59m 30s respectively.

Guinness' Australasian representative Chris Sheedy said that the record attempt presented an enormous challenge that the 34-year-old believes is far more difficult than people may imagine and walking with crutches is often seen as a bit of fun, especially as a youngster.