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The North Beach (Nazaré, Portugal), listed on the Guinness World Records for the biggest waves ever surfed. A number of spin-off books [31] and television series have also been produced. Guinness World Records bestowed the record of "Person with the most records" on Ashrita Furman of Queens, New York, in April 2009; at that time, he held 100 ...
Highland games one arm weight over bar – 25.5 kg (56 lb) over 6.17 metres (20 ft 3 in) (2022 Rogue Invitational) (World Record) [106] Hafþór has broken this world record a total of 12 times ever since he did it first with 5.85 metres (19 ft 2 in) at 2014 New Hampshire Highland Games [107] [10] [108] [109] [110]
The Guinness World Record researchers get many more records approved than they can fit in a single book. There are visits to history — pirate ships and shipwrecks — and pages devoted to record ...
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The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
The world is a pretty unbelievable place, and it seems even more incredible when you take a look at the extremes. From the largest to the fastest to the truly bizarre, the Guinness Book of World ...
In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where the IAAF tracks the record (e.g. the 150 m run ...
Alastair Galpin (born 1974, East London, South Africa) is the 2nd biggest Guinness World Records breaker of the 2000s decade, [1] breaking 38 World Records, behind Ashrita Furman. He immigrated to New Zealand in 2002, and says that his career in Record Breaking was inspired when he met champion rally driver, Simon Evans, in Kenya in 1998.