Guinness World Records 2018

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Fastest journey from
Land’s End to John
o’Groats on foot by
a mixed-gender team
Team FFJogle2016 (UK)
travelled the length of
the UK in a time of 4 days
18 hr 2 min on 23–27 Mar



  1. The 12-person team
    of charity runners was
    split into a night- and
    day-shift team, known as
    Nightswatch and Days of
    Thunder respectively.


Fastest time to cycle
around Australia
Reid Anderton (AUS) cycled
14,178 km (8,809.8 mi) in
37 days 1 hr 18 min from
10 Mar to 15 Apr 2013.

Longest journey by
amphibious cycle
From 22 Nov 2014 to 29 Jan
2015, Ebrahim Hemmatnia
(NLD/IRN) cycled 2,371 km
(1,280.2 nautical mi) across
the Atlantic Ocean.

Longest journey
kite surfing (female)
Anke Brandt (DEU)
kite-surfed 489.62 km
(264.37 nautical mi) from
Amwaj Marina to Al Dar
Island in Bahrain on
17–19 Apr 2016.
The longest journey
kite surfing (male) is
862 km (465 nautical mi),
by Francisco Lufinha (PRT)
on 5–7 Jul 2015.

First solo row
across the Black Sea
On 12 Jun–11 Jul 2016,
Scott Butler (UK) spent
29 days 6 hr 2 min rowing
1,207 km (651 nautical mi)
from Burgas in Bulgaria to
Batumi, Georgia.

GREATEST DISTANCE
CYCLED IN A YEAR
On 5 Apr 2017, day 326
of a year-long record
attempt sanctioned by
the UltraMarathon Cycling
Association, Amanda Coker
(USA) beat the 76,076-mi
(122,432.4-km) record set
by Kurt Searvogel (USA)
on 9 Jan 2016. By the end
of day 326, Amanda had
clocked up 76,233.9 mi
(122,686.56 km). Incredibly,
with 39 days to go, her
logs showed daily average
mileage increasing to
233.8 mi (376.2 km) per day.

HIGHEST SKYDIVE
WITHOUT A PARACHUTE
On 30 Jul 2016, Luke Aikins (USA)
leapt 25,000 ft (7,620 m) from a plane without a parachute
or wingsuit in a stunt he named “Heaven Sent”. He landed
safely in a 100-sq-foot (9.2-m^2 ) net in Simi Valley in southern
California, USA. Aikins spent a year-and-a-half preparing for
his 3-min jump, and used a GPS unit to guide him to the net.
The stunt was broadcast live by Fox television.

MOST COUNTRIES VISITED BY BICYCLE
IN 24 HOURS (TEAM)
On 2 Oct 2016, pilots James van der Hoorn (above left) and
Thomas Reynolds (above right, both UK) cycled through
seven countries in 24 hr for charity, visiting Croatia, Slovenia,
Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland.
On 9 Aug 2010, Van der Hoorn and Iain Macleod (UK)
achieved the most countries visited by fixed-wing
aircraft in 24 hours: 11.

Alex Thomson’s
record run was
even more impressive
for the fact that he
achieved it in variable
wind conditions off the
coast of Spain, and that
his starboard foil had
smashed earlier
in the race.

GREATEST DISTANCE SAILED
IN 24 HOURS BY MONOHULL
(SINGLE‑HANDED)
Between 7 a.m. (UTC) on 15 Jan and 7 a.m.
on 16 Jan 2017, Alex Thomson (UK) covered
536.81 nautical mi (994.17 km) in his 60-ft-
long (18.28–m) monohull Hugo Boss. Thomson,
who was chasing after race leader Armel Le
Cléac’h during the Vendée Globe round-the-
world yacht race, clocked an average speed
of 22.36 knots (25.73 mph;
41.41 km/h). Despite his record
pace, he finished second.

LONGEST BAREFOOT JOURNEY
From 1 May to 12 Aug 2016, Eamonn Keaveney (IRL) walked
a distance of 2,080.14 km (1,292.54 mi) barefoot. His
aim was to raise funds and awareness for Pieta House, a
suicide-prevention crisis centre. Beginning his journey in
Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland, primary school teacher
Eamonn completed a shoeless circumnavigation of the
country, braving rain, thorns, traffic and sore feet before
returning to his starting point 103 days later.

ADVENTURES

Fastest time to sail
across the English
Channel by monohull
On 24 Nov 2016, Phil Sharp
(UK) set off from Cowes
on the Isle of Wight, UK, at
06:38:27 UTC (Coordinated
Universal Time) and sailed
the English Channel non-
stop and single-handed in
9 hr 3 min 6 sec, crossing
the finishing line in Dinard,
France, at 15:41:33 UTC.
He averaged a speed of
15.25 knots (17.54 mph;
28.24 km/h) in his 40-ft
(12.19-m) race yacht Imerys.
Sharp beat the time of
12 hr 1 min 31 sec set by
Jean Luc Van Den Heede
(FRA) in Nov 2004. The
speed record was verified
by the World Sailing Speed
Record Council.
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