Midlands World Records

Sofia Romero from Leicestershire is in the Guinness World Record for having the fastest time to escape from a straitjacket.

Today's release of the 2013 Guinness World Records lists a number of record breakers from the Midlands. Here are a few more with the rest posted here:

• Most push ups in one minute with a 40 lb pack, most push ups in one minute carrying an 80 lb pack & most step ups in one minute with a 100 lb pack - West Midlands
• Fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform (male) - West Midlands
• Longest tongue - West Midlands
• Largest chocolate bar - Derbyshire

• Highest altitude by taxi - Staffordshire
• Longest journey by taxi - Staffordshire
• Most Toe Wrestling World Championships won - Men - Stoke on Trent
• Oldest newspaper delivery person- female - Shrewsbury

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)