Chris Nikic becomes first person with Down's syndrome to finish an Ironman triathlon
A 21-year-old triathlete from Florida has become the first person with Down's syndrome to finish an Ironman event - swimming 2.4 miles, cycling 112 miles and running a 26.2-mile marathon Chris Nikic went too far in 16 hours 46 minutes nine seconds - under 14 minutes under the official cut-off time at the Visit Panama City Beach Ironman in Florida - to procure official acknowledgment from Guinness World Records. "You have broken hindrances while demonstrating in actuality that the sky is the limit," the official Ironman account tweeted. From a push-up to an Ironman Nikic's day started with a 2.4-mile swim In Ironman's 42-year history, no competitor with Down's disorder - a hereditary condition that can cause changing levels of learning inability and more slow actual turn of events - has even endeavored a function, not to mention completed one. On Saturday, film flowed via online media of Nikic's dad helping put running shoes on his child's feet while - ...