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15th November 2009
Multiple Guinness Records smashed in one day at Impossibility Challenger
A frenzy of record-breaking took place at the 16th Impossibility Challenger, with 11 Guinness and 7 world records broken.
The event was held on 14 November 2009 in Auckland’s Trusts Stadium in New Zealand, the first time it has ever occurred outside of Europe.
Swiss weightlifter Albert Walter set two Guinness world records for ripping a 1440 page phone book in 6:83 seconds and breaking a 30cm long, 9.5mm wide carpenter’s nail in 3.24 minutes, both with his bare hands.
Alastair Galpin, one of the most prolific Guinness record breakers in the world, set nine new Guinness records in the same day, including the most high-fives in a minute and the furthest distance spitting a ping pong ball.
Four employees of New Zealand tyre company Frank Allen Tyres smashed the world record for the fastest 4 wheel tyre change on a car, reducing it from 2 min 30 sec to 1 min 25 sec.
20 people constructed a 270.3 metre balloon chain in one hour, beating the previous world record of 216 metres.
Plenty of new world records were set including the fastest mile pushing someone in a supermarket trolley (8 min 14 sec), the furthest distance travelled by a balloon powered car, the tallest hat made from balloons (3 metres 20 centimetres) and the world’s largest dot to dot drawing (10 metres square)
The Impossibility Challenger was founded in 1982 by the accomplished weightlifter and runner Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) to promote self-transcendence, the ideal of challenging limits and going beyond previous accomplishments.
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