Unbelievable Sports-Related Guinness World Records You Never Imagined

People have always loved to push their limits, competitiveness in our nature. Some people pursue records like there is no tomorrow. In some cases, that serves the development, and in others, it’s fueled by passion, but sometimes it’s pure obsessiveness. These records usually mark the current best performance from all walks of life, waiting to be broken again by someone with a better performance. To summarize them, they created the well-known Guinness Book of World Records in 1955. We collected some unbelievable sports-related Guinness World Records for you. Enjoy!

The idea came from Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery. By the end of the year, the first book flew to the top of the bestsellers. It was clear by then, that he unleashed something uncontrollable since you can set a record for anything and everything and since there are plenty of applicants. People usually prove their skills and persistence by astonishing or even funny records. The point is to overcome the difficulties and either set up a new record, or break the previous one by setting the bar higher and higher. Also, there are unbelievable sports-related Guinness World Records due to their special and unique nature, which are unlikely to be broken for a while or maybe not?

Fun Guinness World Records From 2021

• Takahiro Ikeda set the record of the most BMX Time Machines in a minute. Time Machine is a complex trick where the rider stands on the bike and spins it around. Ikeda managed to circle it 83 times.
• Ayoub Touabe won the most, single-leg backward somersaults within 30 seconds title with 12 somersaults.
• One of the most unbelievable sports-related Guinness World Records was when gymnast Ash Watson did an epic six-meter backflip between two horizontal bars. He broke his own record by 13 centimeters.
• Tyler Phillips jumped over five London cabs with a pogo stick and set a new record. We have a feeling this record will have many more attempts.

• Laura Biondo, a soccer freestyler, won the most sit-down football crossovers in 30 seconds title, in the female category with 66. She didn’t stop there, though. She is an official record holder also in the most double-around-the-world ball control tricks in one minute with 24. In this trick, the player has to place the ball on their foot, then juggle it so they can circle the ball in the air with their leg. Congrats!

Underwater For Twenty-Four Minutes For a Noble Cause

Budimir Sobat broke an unbelievable sports-related Guinness World Record when the Croatian diver stayed underwater for 24 minutes and 33 seconds with no air or help. Imagine half an hour of total peace and quiet. Well, for Sobat, it’s not just a daydream. By the way, he could have finished earlier, as his previous best time was 18 and a half minutes. Sobat said, that he could have endured it longer thanks to his unique technique and the pure oxygen he breathed before the record attempt. He donated all proceeds from the record to those Croatian children who found themselves in a difficult situation after the earthquake in December. 

Unbelievable Sports-Related Guinness World Records – An Eight Hours Long Plank

The former Marine set a new Guinness record for holding a plank position for 8 hours 15 minutes and 15 seconds. This would be an incredible achievement at any age, but the new record holder George Hood is 62 years old, and according to him, he is in the best shape ever. Hood spent supposedly about 2000 hours training and preparing. He admitted practicing planking 4-5 hours a day besides hundreds of push-ups, squats, and thousands of crunches.

All in all, he spends around seven hours working out per day. Hood said that this was probably the last time he has broken the planking record, but he has other goals in mind. He wants to do the most push-ups within an hour, which is currently 2806. Hood was proud of his achievement but modestly said that anyone can do what he did. Good luck!

Marathon With Extras

Running a marathon alone is a tremendous challenge, but it doesn’t seem enough for fans of running. They keep coming up with crazier and crazier ideas, such as marathon juggling, pushing strollers, or carrying two tires. Mikeal Ball carried the weight of two tires on his shoulders when he run the marathon in 2013. The unbelievable sport-related Guinness World Record took 4 hours and 24 minutes. 

As for strollers, Cynthia Arnold holds the record for running a marathon while pushing a three-seater stroller. She proved, that being a mom doesn’t mean that you have to give up your dreams, and there is no excuse for skipping exercising. The amateur athlete is currently the fastest who ran the half marathon and the marathon distance with a three-seater stroller. In 2018, she broke the half marathon record, then a year later, she did the same with the 42-kilometer distance. She completed the marathon in 3 hours and 11 minutes, making her a Guinness record holder. The previous recorder was Anne Marie Cody with 4 hours 6 minutes. 

Michal Kapral is the best at juggling during a marathon. He set the Guinness record for running the fastest 10 km while juggling with three objects without missing in 2006. Then in 2014, he set another record. This time for the fastest half-marathon while juggling. In the 1 hour and 20 minutes, he dropped only one ball. Who said running is boring?

The Most Underwater Bench Presses

Greg Wittstock’s record seems as silly as it is admirable. He combined his passion for watersports and bodybuilding to attempt, setting a record of bench pressing while lying underwater. To set the record, he could take only one breath and bench press at least 50 kg underwater. Wittstock could do it 62 times in 1 minute and 31 seconds. However, even his record was broken by someone else not long after he set his own. Russian Vitaly Vivchar set a new world record after lifting a 50 kg barbell underwater. He could lift it 76 times, breaking the former record-holder’s results. He needed only two months to prepare for the challenge, which took more than three minutes without any help or oxygen.

Unbelievable Sports-Related Guinness World Records – Swimming in Handcuffs

In the rather unbelievable sports-related Guinness World Record, the then 38 years old Elham Sadat Ashgari was the record-holder. She swam around 5,2 kilometers with her hands restricted by police handcuffs in 2019. She supported herself mostly with her legs, and that’s how she moved in the water. For many of us, even with our hands free, it would be a challenge. However, the keyword is “was” the record-holder. The 32-years-old Ben Katzman broke Ashgari’s former record when he swam 5,35 miles (around 8,6 km) to set a new record in 2021. Katzman shared that it also became his personal record since he had never swum so much before, even without handcuffs.

Surfing With a Basketball – The Mind-Blowing Combination 

Bernie Boehm combined two of his favorite sports and kept spinning a basketball with his fingers for 33 seconds while surfing. He set the record back in 2013, but there seems no challenger in sight. Though, if you think about what sense of balance and focus is needed to do the two sports together, it’s not surprising. This experiment deserved its place among the Guinness World Records.

You can place bets on each of the sports at 888sport Sportsbook. Boehm has another record under his belt, the longest time spinning a basketball on a guitar while playing. He set it this summer, under 33 seconds after an unsuccessful first attempt. Do you want to know more? Check out our article about gambling records.

The Unbelievable Sports-Related Guinness World Records With The Help of a Soccer Ball 

This form of exercise most likely makes you smile, but only until you hear the details. It would present a challenge walking with a soccer ball between your legs, yes, but what about walking on your hands? Zhang Shuang practiced for three years to attempt this record. With a soccer ball between his legs, he triumphed when he set the record for, the fastest 50 meters walking on hands while holding a soccer ball with his legs. He covered the distance in 26 seconds.

He attempted breaking the record of the quickest time to climb and descend 40 steps on his hands, but the title went to Fan Congcong. The fastest 50 meters on hands record without the added difficulty of carrying a soccer ball is under 17 seconds. No one attempted to break it for decades, so maybe he will take on that challenge next. 

Another mind-blowing soccer ball-related Guinness record was set in 2016 when a Nigerian amateur soccer player cycled 103 kilometers (64 miles) with a soccer ball on his head. The ball didn’t fall off even once! This is unbelievable! A well-deserved Guinness record for sure. Harrison Chinedu had already broken a record before, when he walked 48 km (30 miles) with a ball on his head, but someone exceeded it. This is when you understand the phenomenal abilities humans possess, and get motivated to do something unique yourself. For more jaw-dropping performances, go to online sportsbook news sites in the US.

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