1482 Push ups in 40 minutes World Record set by Indian Kids

Ronak Atul Vitha, a five year old kid is popularly known as Chhota Ghajini or Little Ghajini. Ghajini – a bollywood film was a blockbuster for few reasons, one of them being Aamir Khan, the leading character’s eight pack body.

When he was 2.5 years old, he watched Ghajini for the first time. This evoked in him the desire to develop his body like Aamir Khan as seen in it. His mother Ruchi Atul Vitha says “He easily imitated few Yoga Asanas when he was only 2 years old. This made us aware about the flexibility of his physique.”

Later on he started with 10 push ups everyday, which with practice increased to 50 in just one week’s time. He also started hanging on the iron road.

Asia Book of Records has awarded him as “Push Ups Master” for his achievement of performing 1482 pushups within 40 minutes only. He is given the physical training by body trainer Satyajit Chaurasia, who helped Aamir Khan in developing an eight pack physique.

He is very much fond of watching the film Ghajini. Whenever it is being shown on television, he watches it with full concentration. Her mother adds “After watching Ghajini film, we could see increase in number of pushups which reached to 100 everyday when he was 2.5 years old.”

He is born on July 15, 2005 and studies in Senior KG. His father Atul M. Vitha lives in Mumbai.

Parents : Atul Maganlal Vitha & Ruchy Atul Vitha

School : Thakur Vidhya Mandir, Kandivali (East), Mumbai

Hobbies & Qualities : Free hand exercises , Computers and mobile Games, Watching Cartoons on TV, Yoga, Skating, Foot ball.

Ambitions : To become a heavy weight body builder in future and Strongest Child ever in India and world, currently streching up for a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS to become a “Strongest Child of World”.

Trainer : Mr Satyajit Chaurasia (Ghajini trainer) trains him thrice in a week .

Ronak Vitha's Fast 100 Half Push-ups in 59 sec Video

Largest Sports Lesson record set by Australian Hocky Player

On Wednesday 11^th February Streatham & Clapham High School, an independen

t all-age girls’ school in Streatham, celebrated the opening of their all weather sports pitch by attempting a Guinness World Records for the Largest Sports Lesson. All of the girls, aged 8 to 18, as well as the staff and parents who took part, were extremely enthusiastic throughout the lesson, which lasted for 35 minutes and included a variety of hockey skills. They were successful in their record attempt with a total of 459 participants!

The lesson was led by Tristram Woodhouse (Ex-Australian Hockey Player) and their head of Sports, Elizabeth Basson. Ben Marsden and James Tindall, members of the Great British Olympic Hockey team, also attended and participated in the record. The event was brilliantly organised and all those involved were incredibly helpful.

Students Play Four Square to Set World Record

For 15 minutes Tuesday, Heather Barrett joined 459 of her classmates for a spirited game called four square.

"I was so excited that we're going to be in a world record book," said the Hammond Hill Elementary School fifth-grader. 'It's amazing to be a part of that."

The children really will get themselves in the Guiness Book of World Records. In a National Recess Week celebration, sponsor The Cartoon Network created an activity never before attempted - school kids throughout the country participating in four square games simultaneously.

Hammond Hill is also in the running for one of 10 $10,000 prizes for its physical education department. Those awards will be announced Thursday, said Allison Ritter, a senior account manager for Hope-Beckham Inc. of Atlanta.

Corine Esposito, Hammond Hill's physical education teacher for the last 16 years, registered for the game and received a number of large playground balls.

"In my class, we always do brain food in the morning with a lot of reading and thinking," Esposito said. "I use the Guinness Book a lot. When the kids learned we had a chance to get into the book, they were all on board."

She used to teach four square in the past until the state standards were introduced. So Esposito and Buddy Satcher, who divides his time between Hammond Hill and North Augusta Elementary School, gave the kids an introductory lesson last week. Principal Janet Vaughan said Esposito also showed the faculty members how to play.

"It's a great game for the children to learn," said Vaughan.

The simple rules call for a single square divided into four. A kid in each square hits a ball to an opponent, who must let it bounce once before hitting it to one of the other players.

Ruth McGhee, mom of third-grader Zach and first-grader Nathan, was just as wired as the kids during the four square session.

"Physical activities are very important," she said. "Children need to be active to burn off that energy, get back into the classroom and focus on what's important. Our boys were so excited Saturday that they wanted to practice in the rain. We had to explain that wasn't going to happen."

Fourth-grader Baron Radcliff said he used to play four square a lot at another school and really enjoys it.

"It's the largest simultaneous game ever," he said. "They're playing all over the country, and we're lucky to be one of them."

Worlds Longest Golf Cart Record set by HSBC Champions

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Leon Lai joined HSBC and some of the biggest names in golf to showcase the world’s longest golf cart at the HSBC Champions Charity Golf Day in Hong Kong last week.

The HSBC Champions BookMobile, a specially-designed golf cart that functions as a mobile library, marks a partnership between HSBC and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help rebuild education facilities in Sichuan province in China, according to an HSBC press release.

The 6.68-metre long HSBC Champions BookMobile was presented by Sandy Flockhart, HSBC Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer, and Peter Wong, Executive Director, Hong Kong and Mainland China, at the Kau Sai Chau Public Golf Course in the New Territories.

Mr Lai, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for 14 years, is an avid champion of children’s causes. Mr Lai said: “Life teaches you lessons. In the classroom you learn the skills that allow you to understand those lessons. We need to get all the children of Sichuan back in a classroom environment so they can start rebuilding their lives. HSBC has helped both directly and also indirectly by allowing us to use the platform provided by Asia’s number one golf tournament to remind everyone that the children affected by the earthquake still need your help.”

Usain Bolt Worlds Fastest Man set 100 Meters Running Record

Like lightning out of nowhere, Usain Bolt is now the world's fastest man. The Jamaican sprinter, who doesn't even consider the 100 meters his best race, set the world record Saturday night with a time of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix, .02 seconds faster than the old mark held by his countryman, Asafa Powell.

Bolt was using the 100 as "speed work" to get better for his favorite race, the 200, and also to avoid having to run the more grueling 400. Then, unexpectedly, he ran the world's second-fastest time a few weeks ago at 9.76.

Even with that, he said he wasn't sure if he would switch out the 400 for the 100 at the Beijing Olympics.

"I think that will change today," Bolt said. "It doesn't matter if I have the world record if I don't have the Olympic medal."

Springing from the starting block and unfurling his lanky frame — listed at 6-foot-4, but probably more like 6-5 and, either way, considered too tall for this kind of speed work — he created a big-time gap between himself and Tyson Gay at about the halfway point, then routed America's top sprinter to the finish line.

"I wasn't really looking for a world record, but it was there for the taking," Bolt said.

Gay finished in 9.85.

"Obviously, I have some work to do," Gay said. "Right now, it's hats off to Bolt. Today was his day."

As he crossed the finish line, Bolt spread his arms out wide and let out a yell. A few moments later, the 21-year-old from Kingston was hoisting the Jamaican flag and a crowd with several hundreds of Jamaican fans was going wild. Then, he kneeled down and posed next to the scoreboard that recorded the fastest time ever — "9.72."

"Just coming here, knowing a lot of Jamaicans were here giving me their support, it meant a lot," Bolt said. "I just wanted to give them what they wanted."

But who could have expected this?

Bolt has long been considered one of his country's top, up-and-coming runners, but his height and running style seemed to make him much more fit for powering through turns in the 200, the distance he considers his best, and persevering in the 400, which he doesn't love as much.

Like so many who compete in the 100, Bolt had lots of work to do with his push out of the blocks. In the leadup to the race, he said he doesn't consider himself a true pro at that yet. And after a bad false start by the field — the second gun didn't go off until the runners were 20 meters down the track — this simply didn't seem like a night for world records.

Or was it?

"I was glad for the first false start," Bolt said. "My first start wasn't that good. I knew if I got Tyson on the start, I'd get him."

Gay said he knew it was over after he saw Bolt push out.

"I honestly think we were on the same rhythm, except his stride pattern is a lot bigger," Gay said. "He was covering a lot more ground than I was."

"An awesome athlete," said Shawn Crawford, who finished sixth and witnessed history from two lanes inside of Bolt. "The time shows it."

This marked the first time the record had been set in the United States since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, when Donovan Bailey ran a 9.84.

A lot is often said about Olympic trials in the United States — that given the depth of the roster, it can be an even better meet than the actual Olympics. But suddenly the highlight of the pre-Olympic calendar could now be Jamaican nationals at the end of June, when Bolt and Powell should square off in the 100. Powell, who set the mark of 9.74 last September in Italy, is overcoming a chest injury but is expected to be healthy soon.

Also at Jamaican nationals will be Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won the women's 100 on Saturday in 10.91, the fastest time of 2008.

The fastest time ever, though, now belongs to Bolt, and it made a prophet out of Gay, who predicted that with himself, Bolt and Powell lining up against each other over these next few months, the record could go down, down, down.

The conditions were right.

The start of the meet was delayed by an hour because of threatening storms in the area. Then, about halfway though, a brief thunderstorm hit, cooling the track and leaving it with just the faintest sheen of glistening moisture before the last, most-anticipated, race of the night. The tailwind was measured at 1.7 meters-per-second, .3 under the limit at which a record can be set.

"To be honest, I knew the track was fast," Gay said. "I knew a 9.7 was possible."

After his victory, Bolt paraded around with the Jamaican flag, accepted a hug from Gay, soaked in some more applause.

"I always perform well in front of the Jamaican fans. They're so loud," he said.

Race organizers, knowing they'd get a big Jamaican fanbase out at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island, had scheduled a post-meet reggae concert for the crowd of about 6,000.

And what a perfect choice that was on this history making night.

Source : AP.

Most Boules Lyonnaise Hits in 12 hours

Last 5 April, not one but three Guinness World Records were broken in the Sport of Boules Lyonnaise. Boules Lyonnaise is a sport discipline born in France, which requires a high level of physical condition as well as an important amount of precision.

Christophe Jumel, the already Guinness World Record holder for the most Boules Lyonnaise hits in 12 hours in the modality of Tir a Cadence came back to the Villers St Paul Boulodrome to, under the watchful eye of the President of the Federation Française Du Sport-Boules, Mr. Jean-Claude Poyot and the Guinness World Records Adjudicator coming specially from London, to try to set the new Guinness World Records in three modalities of the game:

Tir Progressif
Tir en Navette
Tir Cadencé

Playing for 11 hours Mr. Jumel set the new Guinness World Records for the most hits in 1 hour in each of these 3 modalities.

For the first great achievement, the most boules Lyonnaise hit in 1 hour - Tir progressif, Christophe placed the white ball to be hit at 12.5 meters. In a 5 metres tapestry he hit the astonishing amount of 298 boules of 315 throws.

For the second Guinness World Records, in the modality of Tir en Navette, the boules to be touched were located at 13 metres distance from Christophe Jumel and 172 boules of 197 throws were touched in one hour time, setting a new Guinness World Records.

The last modality to be attempted was the Tir Cadencé, the modality in which Christophe was already the Guinness World Records holder in the 12 hours time. From a 14 metres distance in a continuous run he hit 257 boules of 271 throws to set an impressive new Guinness World Record.
During the whole records day, Christophe threw 1,895 balls hitting 1,746 (an amazing 92.21% of precision) and ran more than 42 Km!

Source : http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

50 meter freestyle swimming world record set by Alain Bernard

Alain Bernard set a world record in the 50-meter freestyle Sunday, after twice lowering the 100 freestyle mark in the previous two days at the European swimming championships.

The muscular Frenchman finished in 21.50 seconds to beat the time of 21.56 set last month by Eamon Sullivan of Australia. Sullivan lowered Alexander Popov's previous record of 21.64, set in Moscow on June 16, 2000.

"I had to stay calm for this semifinal," Bernard said. "I had an excellent start, which is not that usual for me. Then I thought I had to exploit my fantastic shape here in Eindhoven. I put all my power on at 35 meters."

Bernard set a world record of 47.50 seconds to win the 100 freestyle final on Saturday. That took one-tenth of a second off the record of 47.60 he swam Friday in the semifinals, to shatter Pieter van den Hoogenband's old mark set at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

On Sunday, 24-year-old Bernard easily beat Stefan Nystrand of Sweden, who finished in 22.12 in their second semifinal to be third fastest into the final.

Russian teenager Anastasia Zueva won her second gold of the championships in the 50 backstroke in a European record, adding to her victory in the 100 backstroke — also in a European record time — on Friday.

The 17-year-old Zueva's time of 28.05 was well outside the world record set earlier in the day and on the other side of the world by Sophie Edington, who clocked 27.67 at the Australian Olympic trials in Sydney.

Nina Zhivanevskaya of Spain, the 2003 world champion and holder of the old European record, was second and Sanja Jovanovic of Croatia was third.

World record holder Oleg Lisogor of Ukraine took the European 50 breaststroke in 27.43 after sharing the title for the last two years with Alessandro Terrin of Italy following the pair's tie at the last European championships. This time, Terrin had to settle for bronze as Alexander Dale Oen took silver.

With world champion Laure Manaudou not racing, Sara Isakovic of Slovenia won the women's 200 freestyle in 1:57.45, touching just ahead of Olympic champion Camelia Potec of Romania and third-place Agnes Mutina of Hungary.

Evgeny Korotyshkin of Russia won the men's 100 butterfly in 51.89 and sealed a place at the Olympics after starting in lane eight because he had the slowest qualifying time. Peter Mankoc of Slovenia was second in 52.07 and Rafael Munoz Perez of Spain was third in 52.09.

In her last season of competitive swimming, continental record holder Flavia Rigamonti of Switzerland won the first ever European championship women's 1500 final in 15:58.54. Erika Villaecija of Spain collected her second silver of the championships after placing second in the 800 freestyle, and Lotte Friis of Denmark was third.

Markus Rogan added the 200 backstroke title to the 100 backstroke gold he won earlier in the championships. The Austrian touched in 1:55.85, ahead of European record holder Arkady Vyatchanin of Russia and Razvan Florea of Romania.

In the evening's final race, Filippo Magnini anchored Italy to its fifth straight 800freestyle title in 7:09.94. Russia was second and Austria third.

In the diving competition, Julia Pakhalina of Russia won the women's 3-meter springboard with 347.40 points. The German pair of Sascha Klein and Patrick Hausding won the men's 10-meter platform synchro.

Source : AP

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World’s longest singing marathon India

The Kalaangann near Shaktinagar in Mangalore all set to host Konkani Nirantari, world’s longest singing marathon by multiple singers to create history on January 26 and 27, 2008

The Konkani Nirantari will be organised by the Mandd Sobhann, a Konkani cultural organisation, in order to break the existing Guinness world record of 36 hours marathon singing, standing in the name Communidade Evangelica Luterana Sao Paulo of Brazil.

A total of 44 groups with around 1,500 singers from various parts of the nation will sing 600 Konkani songs one after another for a non-stop 40 hours as per Guinness World Records norms. The marathon singing will start at 6 am on January 26 and will continue till 10 pm on January 27.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Mandd Sobhann director Eric Ozario said that the judge from Guinness World Records, London, Keith Pullin would present to witness and certify the attempt.

There would be only 30 seconds gap between two songs and each group would sing continuously for one hour without break, he said adding that a singer performed in one group would not be allowed to perform again in another group.

Ozario said that teams from Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Udupi and singers from Gulf would participate in the mega event. “Taking Konkani to international heights is the objective behind organising the Konkani Nirantari,’’ he added.

Mangalore Biship Dr Aloysius Paul D’Souza would inaugurate the event and bless the occasion while Ryan’s International Educational Institutions, Mumbai chief Grace Pinto would be the chief guest at the closing ceremony, Ozario informed.

NRI entrepreneur Ronald Colaco, Krishna Dairy managing director Pradeep G Pai and Guinness World Records tm, London Adjudicator Keith Pullin would be present.

5000 Pushups in One Hour World Record

A youth from Bhatkal has succeeding in gaining entry into Guinness Book of World Records by with having done 5,000 pushups within a short period of one hour. Mr. Manjunath S Devadiga of Bangere Mavin Kattey village in Bhatkal taluk is hoped to shine the name of Bhatkal town.

Being poor he just studied till class 2 and later started working in a hotel in Dharwad. Though he wanted to continue his education he couldn't do so. However, he decided to create his identity in the society hence started pushup exercise.

Mr. Manjunath t married just before seven months and took the responsibility of married life. He had left the pushup exercise and decided to live in his village. For seeking his livelihood he decided to be a laborer. After this job not suiting him he got back to hotel job and started his pushup exercise. Initially he was exercising 2000 pushups later he tried for 5,000 pushups within a single hour without any type of fatigue.

Manjunath says that he does 48,000 pushups from 5am to 5pm daily. The local people say that despite exercising pushups for continuous twelve hours he does not feel tired. He has won many prizes in many wrestling competition held in Dharwad and Hubli. Manjunath astounded the people of his village by demonstrating this skill. The people of the village assured him to provide their support to him.

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