Recent Guinness Book Records

SI Staff | Aug 7, 2013

Recent Guinness Book Records /

Recent Guinness Book Records

Hot Air Baloon Walk

Exelon Kyle walks on a tightrope extended between two hot-air balloons in Kunming, in southwest China's Yunnan province, on July 30, 2013 . Kyle took 38.35 seconds to complete the 'hot air balloon 18 meters fast walking' and created another Guinness World Record.

World's Biggest Arms

Egyptian Body builder Moustafa Ismail poses during his daily workout at World Gym in Milford, Mass. Ismail has been given the title of world's biggest arms, biceps and triceps by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Shortest Man

Nepalese Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, poses with Indian Jyoti Amge, 19, the world's shortest woman.

Morning Gym Exercise group

Fifteen thousand people take part in a mass morning gym exercise in Kiev to set a new Guinness world record of the most amount of people taking part in a morning gym exercise.

Largest Bikini Parade

A total of 1,085 women took part in the World's Largest Bikini Parade, setting a new Guinness World Record during the 2nd China International Beach & Bikini Culture Exposition on Aug. 19, 2012 in Huludao, Liaoning, China.

Biggest Christmas Tree

Rio de Janeiro's Christmas Tree is inaugurated at the Rodrigo Freitas Lagoon in Brazil. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the biggest Christmas tree in the world. It measures over 85 meters and is lit by 3.3 million multi-colored bulbs.

Tallest Mohawk

Television journalist Takashi Yanagisawa holds a measuring tape from atop a step ladder while interviewing Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe, who holds the world record for the "Tallest Mohawk." According to the Guinness World Records, Watanabe's do stands at 3 feet 8.6 inches.

Longest wedding dress train

Romanian model Ema Dumitrescu poses with her champion dress during a successful attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest wedding dress train. The train measures more than 9,022 feet. Here's a look at other world records that have been broken in the last year and a half.

Fastest motorized toilet

Canadian female action sports star Jolene Van Vugt makes a pass in Sydney on her way to setting a new land speed Guiness World Record for a motorized toilet. Van Vugt beat the existing record of 68 km/h by 7 km/h, after completing the stunt in both directions with an average of the two speeds taken to give her the new world record.

Biggest Wave title

Garrett McNamara of Haleiwa, Hawaii, won the Biggest Wave surfed title, a 78-foot wall caught at Nazare, Portugal.

Largest Spinning Class

Riders embrace at the start of a spinning marathon in Bogota, Colombia. A record-1,096 people pedaled for three hours to break the Guinness world record for the largest static cycling class.

World's oldest yoga teacher

Yoga instructor Tao Porchon-Lynch, leading a class in Hartsdale, N.Y., was named the world's oldest yoga teacher at 93.

Spinning a basketball on a toothbrush

Thaneshwar Guragai, in Kathmandu, spins a basketball on a toothbrush while holding the toothbrush in his mouth for exactly 22.41 seconds to break the record of 13.5 seconds.

Tallest person ever to play professional basketball

Paul (Tiny) Sturgess, standing 7' 8", is not only the tallest Harlem Globetrotter but also the tallest person to ever play professional basketball.

Fastest 5 KM Barefoot on Ice/Snow

The fastest 5 km ran while barefoot on ice or snow is 23 minutes 42.16 seconds, by Kai Martin from Guestrow (Germany), in a race held on a deep-frozen prepared snow track in the indoor ski resort.

Fastest 100m in a pedalo record

Former England cricketer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff (right) and friend Steve Harmison celebrate with their official certificate after a successful attempt to break the fastest 100m in a pedalo world record on Hyde Park boating lake in London.

Most people performing jumping jacks

First Lady Michelle Obama led more than 20,000 children worldwide in a jumping jacks exercise to promote her "Let's Move" campaign. On Oct. 12, at 3 p.m., Guinness confirmed that she had helped break the record for most people performing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

World's shortest woman

Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India, is confirmed on her 18th birthday to be the world's shortest woman (24.7 inches) by Guiness World Records. After she finishes high school, Amge hopes to earn a college degree and become a Bollywood film star.

Most autographed baseballs

Dennis Schrader owns more than 4,600 signed balls. The collection is worth over $3 million and is stored in a room with one-foot thick walls, a bank vault door, video surveillance and motion sensors.

Largest balloon sculpture

Adam Lee stands inside the spider sculpture that he used more than 3,000 balloons to create.

Longest wave ever surfed

Gary Saavedra of Panama gets a well-deserved bottle of water after riding a wave in Gatun lake in the Panama Canal for three hours and 55 minutes. The previous record was one hour and six minutes.

Most people bouncing tennis balls simultaneously

Tennis pros Andrea Petkovic and Mardy Fish hold a certificate proving they were a part of the record-breaking effort at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.

Most people in a BMW Mini

Pilobolus Dance Company successfully squeezed 26 people into this car.

Most hula hoops spun by one person

During a performance in a shopping mall in Hong Kong, Jin Linlin spins 105 hula hoops, matching her own record, which she set in 2007.

Most beer bottles rode over on a unicycle

Lutz Eichholz of Germany rode his unicycle a distance of 8.93 meters. He rode over 127 beer bottles.

Longest time spent in direct full body contact with ice

Chen Kecai (left) and Jin Songhao compete in a cold endurance competition on the Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China. Jin won with a time of 120 minutes.

Longest surf by a dog

Abbie Uy, an Australian Kelpie dog, rides 60 meters (127 feet) at a dog surf contest in Huntington Beach, Calif.

365 Marathons in 365 days

Belgian Stefaan Engels celebrates as he crosses the finish line in Barcelona during the last marathon of his 365 marathons in 365 days challenge.

Largest dodgeball game

At the UC Irvine campus, 1,745 students participated in the largest dodgeball game ever.

Most kites flown simultaneously

A Palestinian refugee flies a kite during an event held by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency near the Gaza strip. More than 15,000 kites were in the sky.

Heaviest plane pulled by people in wheelchairs

Eighty-four wheelchair-bound Belgians pull a 67-ton C130 cargo aircraft over 100 meters.

Largest floating raft

A total of 1,925 kayaks and canoes are strung together to form the largest floating raft in a Susan G. Komen Foundation charity event in Inlet, N.Y. The previous record was 1,620 boats.

Most simultaneous high fives

Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver Antonio Freeman helps fans at Lambeau Field set the record for most simultaneous high fives. University of British Columbia undergrads would break the record with over 3,200 simultaneous high fives in September.

Most hugs in one hour

Nick Cannon sets the record for most hugs in an hour outside of the New York Mets' CitiField by hugging over 1,800 people to raise money for the Mets Care Room at New York Hospital in Queens.

Most people swinging hula hoops

These 2,496 hula-hoopers gathered in Taipei, Taiwan, to break the record for most people swinging hula hoops in two minutes.

Oldest Salsa Dancer

Paddy Jones of Britain performs with her Spanish partner Nicko during an exhibition in Lima. She was born on July 1, 1934.

Most people standing on one leg simultaneously

Portland Trail Blazers' legend Terry Porter (center) helps fans set the record for most people in the Captain Morgan pose at The Rose Quarter in Portland.

Obscure Marathon Records

For the 2011 London Marathon organizers thought up more 100 world records, including quickest book character and fastest person running backwards.

Longest fingernails

Chris Walton's nails measure 10 feet, 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet, 7 on her right hand. She's been growing them for 18 years.

Steepest roller coaster

"Takabisha" in Japan has a free-falling angle of 121 degrees.

Largest gathering of people wearing costume masks

It took over 40,000 Los Angeles Angel fans in Anaheim, Calif., to set this record.

World's Tallest Man

Turkey's Sultan Kosen stands 8 feet, 3 inches tall.

Most people wearing sunglasses in the dark

Texas Ranger fans wear sunglasses during the 7th inning of a night game against the Houston Astros at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

Biggest human smiley

These 768 Croats create the biggest human smiley on Zagreb main square, breaking the previous record of 551 that was set in Latvia.

Longest cigar

This 268-foot, 4-inch cigar in Havana is nearly the length of a football field. It was rolled by Jose Castelar Cairo, who also rolled a 148-foot, 9-inch cigar to set the old record.

Steepest street

Glen Ballam (right) and Nick Abraham race up a 19-degree slope on Baldwin street in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Longest time spinning a Guinness World Record book

Thaneshwar Guragai spins this record book for exactly 30 minutes in Nepal to smash the 6.51-minute record.

Largest underwater wedding

Ewa and Pawel Jaworzno of Poland kiss during the largest underwater wedding. There were 275 wedding guests.

Biggest drum

This drum, made in Yeongdong, South Korea, weighs over seven tons and has a 6.4-meter diameter.

Largest human cross

Over 24,000 Filipino students set the record for largest human cross in Manila to celebrate Ash Wednesday.

Most different dishes on display

The 8,146 dishes made by different families were gathered and displayed in Wuhan city, China, to celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival.

Oldest Twin Sisters

Marie (left) and Gabrielle Vaudremer of Belgium celebrate their 101st birthday.

Longest string of aluminum cans

The Aluminum Association in De Pere, Wis., set the record with 66,343 cans strung together. The chain was over five miles long.

Largest t-shirt

Gildan Activewear broke the record in Nashville with this 180.9-foot wide, 281.3-foot long T-shirt.

Longest picnic table

Guests who wanted to try some of Safeway's Open Nature Line of 100 percent natural foods in San Francisco enjoyed the free barbecue at a table that stretched 305 feet.

Largest Crocodile in Captivity

Cassius, who lives in the Marineland Melanisia in Australia, is almost six meters long and weighs nearly one metric ton.

Published Aug 7, 2013

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