A 50-year-old local man in China ran a marathon while occasionally smoking cigarettes, Weibo reported.

The man ran a 42 kilometer marathon - after almost three and a half hours he arrived at the finish line. The Chinese was 574th out of 1,500 runners. Throughout the distance he smoked cigarettes.

The man participated in marathons in 2018 and 2019 - he overcame the distance in about the same time.