Recordmania Round-Up
RECORDMANIA
FARTHEST DISTANCE
WALKED BALANCING
A BIKE ON THE CHIN
On 13 Apr 2016, Ashrita
Furman (USA) covered
20.62 m (67 ft 7 in) on foot
with a vintage Raleigh
Super Course on his chin.
On 29 Jun 2015, he
recorded the farthest
distance walked
balancing a lawnmower
on the chin: 122.92 m
(403 ft 3 in).MOST BRIDAL BOUQUETS CAUGHT
Jamie “The Bouquet Slayer” Jackson of Draper, Utah, USA,
goes to a lot of weddings. So many, in fact, that she has
been able to become a master bouquet-catcher. Jamie
has attended more than 100 weddings since 1 996, and
has caught 50 bridal bouquets. There have been just four
divorces among the brides whose bouquets she has caught- a fact that she believes makes her a good-luck charm.
FASTEST SIDE-
WHEELIE LAP OF
THE NÜRBURGRING
NORDSCHLEIFE
On 3 Nov 2016, Han Yue
(CHN) completed a lap of
the infamous Nürburgring
Nordschleife (North Loop)
in a Mini Cooper without
letting his right wheels
touch the ground. It
took him a record 45 min
59.11 sec to negotiate the
73 twists and turns along
the 20.8-km-long (12.9-mi)
track, which winds its
way through Rhineland-
Palatinate, Germany.You don’t always have to be a trained professional to go for
a GWR record. Try using a little imagination...Largest fruit sculpture
Saadeddin Co. (SAU) made
a 5.95-m-tall (19-ft 6-in)
sculpture from dates in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on
23 Nov 2016. The sculpture- around the same height
as an adult giraffe – took
the form of a palm tree.
Largest display of toy
windmills/pinwheels
The LunEur amusement
park in Rome, Italy,
celebrated its reopening
by displaying 576 toy
windmills/pinwheels on
27 Oct 2016. LunEur is
thought to be the oldest
amusement park in
Italy, dating back
to 1953.LONGEST WHIP CRACKED
On 18 Aug 2016, whip performer Nathan Griggs
(AUS) coaxed an audible “crack” from a whip
329 ft 7 in (100.45 m) long during a show at
Defiance Mill Park in Queensland, Australia.
On 9 Mar 2017, Nathan achieved the most whip
cracks with two whips in one minute. With a
kangaroo-leather whip in each hand, he made
697 distinct whip cracks in 60 sec – more than
11 a second – in Altona, Victoria, Australia.Largest online
photo album of people
giving a thumbs-up
Between 9 Apr and
7 May 2016, Unicharm
Consumer Products (CHN)
collected 50,470 images
of enthusiastic people
giving the thumbs-up sign.Largest
spring mattress
Lijun Hou and his team (all
CHN) produced a gigantic
mattress measuring 20 x
18.18 m (65 ft 7 in x 59 ft
7 in), with a thickness of
0.31 m (1 ft 0.2 in). That
makes it around the same
size as a tennis court. The
monster mattress was put
on display at a public event
in Harbin, Heilongjiang,
China, on 15 Apr 2016.FASTEST 50 M
WALKING ON HANDS
WITH A SOCCER BALL
BETWEEN THE LEGS
Zhang Shuang (CHN)
covered 50 m (164 ft) in
26.09 sec walking on his
hands while grasping a
soccer ball between his
knees. This record was set
at the China West Normal
University on 30 Apr 2016.
The overall record for
the fastest 50 m running
on hands currently stands
at 16.93 sec. It was set by
Mark Kenny (USA) way
back on 19 Feb 1994.Largest display
of origami frogs
On 1 Apr 2016, a frog-shaped
mosaic of 1,578 origami
frogs was created in the
Kumamoto Kodomo Bunka
Kaikan, a children’s culture
centre in Kumamoto, Japan.
It was made by 238 children,
their parents, volunteers and
employees at the centre.Longest backwards
golf carry
On 4 Mar 2016, Lynn Ray
(USA) hit a golf ball 313 yd
(286.2 m) facing away from
the direction of his drive.
The “carry” is the distance
that the ball travels in the air.
The next day, he achieved
the most golf balls hit over
300 yards in one hour: 4 59.Most tandem parachute
jumps in 8 hours
RedBalloon (AUS) carried
out 155 tandem parachute
jumps in 8 hr in Wollongong,
Australia, on 17 Dec 2016.Most cups balanced
on the forehead
On 9 Jul 2016, Saar Kessel
(ISR) balanced an 81-cm-
high (2-ft 7.8-in) stack
of 305 plastic cups on
his forehead for 10 sec in
Mishmar HaShiv’a, Israel.
He also recorded the
most poker chips balanced
on one finger (84).