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/
