Number of View: 944 As a way to kick off American Heart Month and hoping to break a Guinness World Record, hundreds of students at Van Nuys Middle School took part this Monday in the “Jamba Jump Day”. Across the state, more than 500 other schools and some 83,000 people took part in the event, [...]
Number of View: 224Few people who watched the BBC documentary The Man Who Cycled the World last summer would dream of emulating its star. On his way to smashing the world record for circumnavigating the globe on a bike, Mark Beaumont crashed into a donkey in Pakistan, was mugged in Louisiana, and endured nights locked [...]
Number of View: 273Stuart Ridley does nothing by halves. The 32-year-old Lower Hutt man is so passionate about tattoos he has plastered most of his body with 36 dragons. Now “Tattoo Stu”, as he calls himself, is trying to break the world record for the longest stint of tenpin bowling with more than 100 hours [...]
Number of View: 509Dodging vicious creatures, unfriendly weather, a 55-year old adventurer swam non-stop to cross the frighteningly dangerous Amazon river for 66 days, while covering 3,274 miles. With a bulging belly and thinning hair, Martin Strel is not your average adventurer with Greek-god like features but he surely has the guts to defy age [...]
Number of View: 193Yesterday found our favourite duck fan Misty yet again at Molsely Lock, Hampton Court armed with cameras set to shiny in order to capture the third Great British Duck Race for photographic posterity. Created by Mike Scott in 2006, the Duck Race raises money for charities by asking people to sponsor small [...]
Number of View: 683In May, Varsha became the youngest ever girl to get an officially recognised black belt. High-kicking Varsha faced up to British Karate Federation Champion Juan Moreno in London. Luckily the match-up was not for real, although dad-of-two Juan, 31 years her senior at 36, admitted he was shocked at just how good [...]
Number of View: 467Rohit Timilsina´s dream of recording his name in the Guinness Book of World Records has finally materialized. Timilsina, 25, accomplished the feat of holding 21 lawn tennis balls in his single palm as per the International Tennis Federation standard. He, however, does not seem satisfied enough. Timilsina, a school teacher by profession [...]
Number of View: 158Timing will be everything when Sarah Churchill steps out of a plane into the skies above Southern California later this month. She and the other skydivers around her – a total of 185 women from all over the world – will have just 60 seconds to get into formation. If they succeed, [...]
Number of View: 317The soccer ball sculpture that had been constructed at Telkom’s Lukasrand tower, in Pretoria, has set a Guinness World Record in the ‘largest football sculpture’ category, while a second similar structure at Telkom’s Hillbrow tower, in Johannesburg, was under construction. The 50-t structure in Pretoria was constructed out of fibreglass shells that [...]
Number of View: 256Last month, a Greensboro man was killed in a freak accident at UNC Greensboro. This weekend, the community is coming together to remember him with what they hope will be the world’s record for longest continuous billiards match. Rikki Cunningham, an avid pool player, is in Shooters Sports Bar & Billiards at [...]
Number of View: 208Triple Olympic and World 100 metres champion Usain Bolt has hinted that his 200 metres world record could be the next to fall at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin. Bolt, who clocked a pheno-menal 9.58 seconds to smash his own world 100 metres record on Sunday, easily won his first [...]
Number of View: 190Jack was taught to ride the waves by owner and keen surfer Tim Kevan, 38, a barrister. He rides waves up to 3ft high and can perform tricks including a “hang five” – where he walks up and down the board while surfing. He regularly surfs on a 9ft board at Saunton [...]
Number of View: 431Real Madrid have insured Cristiano Ronaldo’s legs for £90million after the Portuguese winger picked up a knock in pre-season. Ronaldo suffered a minor knee injury after being tackled in the Peace Cup semi-final against Juventus in Seville on Friday. The 24-year-old has been given the all-clear by doctors but Real are nervous [...]
Number of View: 364The 54-year-old has the title for being the globe’s best at 100 different activities. His list of achievements include doing 27,000 star jumps, somersaulting over 12 miles and 390 yards, and chopping 27 apples mid air with a samurai sword. However, Ashrita, who has dedicated the last 30 years to being the [...]
Number of View: 233More than 100 jumpers simultaneously plummeted together in formation travelling at speeds of 180mph. In a potentially lethal race against the clock participants had just 40 seconds of freefall from 18,000 feet to find each other and complete their formation. Timing of the stunt was so crucial they had just one-second after [...]
