Makers + Mavericks 2024: Sport + Adventure

Each year we compile a list of the one hundred+ makers and mavericks that got us to utter the words ‘I wish I had done that, made that, invented that, thought like that, changed that’.

Below is one of the many subject we cover in the list. Have a quick read of the Sport + Adventure chapter below. Don't forget to read the full list here.

Mijaín López Núñez.
Wrestler.

The first ever athlete to win five gold medals in the same event. Five time Olympic champion. Leaving his boots on the mat. Hero.

Keely Hodgkinson.
Runner.

A historic year. Olympic and European 800m champion, reduced her personal best to 1:54.61 and was unbeaten over two laps all season.

Russ Cook.
Hardest Geezer.

The first person to ever run the full length of Africa. Crossing the finish line after 352 days, raising in excess of £700,000 in the process.