Midlands World Records
The Guinness Book of World Records is published today and features a host of incredible feats achieved by people from across the Midlands.
Details of Midlands Guinness World Record breakers released
The 2013 Guinness World Records is released today and has revealed the details of record breakers living in the Midlands. They include:
- Largest garden spade - Worcestershire
- Most microlights flying simultaneously - Telford
- Heaviest onion & heaviest potato - Two individual records - Nottinghamshire
- Oldest active boxer - Nottinghamshire
- Fastest escape from a straitjacket - Leicestershire
- Most gravy wrestling wins - Leicestershire
- Largest trousers - Leicestershire
- Heaviest weight lifted with an eye socket - Leicestershire
- Fastest marathon dressed as a fairy - Leicestershire
- Youngest person to row the Indian Ocean solo (female) & first female to row the Indian Ocean solo - Leicestershire
- Longest tongue - West Midlands
- Fastest cycle across Europe (North Cape to Tarifa) - individual - Leicestershire
- Oldest living bearded dragon - Leicestershire
- Oldest locomotive roundhouse - Derbyshire
- Longest rail grind - snowboard - Staffordshire
- Oldest wing walker - West Midlands
- Fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform (male)
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Meet the Midlands whacky world record breakers
The 2013 Guinness World Record has been released and there are quite a few entries from the Midlands.
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What's wrestling, straitjackets and toes got in common?
The latest edition of the Guinness World Records Book has been published with the Midlands claiming many records.