World Records

Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA – December 24, 2016 – A total of 5,025 race participants dressed in Santa suits crossed the finish line at the Surf-N-Santa 5 Miler in Virginia Beach, breaking the Guinness World Record for the Largest Santa Claus Run. Photo: A total of 5,025 race participants dressed in Santa suits crossed the finish line at the Surf-N-Santa …

Newry, Northern Ireland – December 24, 2016 – The people of Newry have broken the Guinness world record for the world’s largest gathering of people dressed as snowmen; Newry sailed into the record books after it managed 398 people dressed as snowmen in one place. Photo: The people of Newry have broken the record for the world’s largest gathering of …

Lausanne, Switzerland – December 21, 2016 – Chefs from the Swiss hotel management school Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, have created a giant meat pie: it weighed a giant 86.75kg and measured 160cm long, 78cm wide and 11cm high, thus setting the new world record for the Largest one-piece meat pie. Photo: This team of chefs created …

Rome, Italy – December 16, 2016 – A hospital in northern Italy had achieved a world first by successfully transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl; the child had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of the abdominal blood vessels, the Molinette hospital in Turin said, …

London, United Kingdom – December 16, 2016 – Moaza Al Matrooshi, 24, originally from Dubai, is the first person in the world to be delivered of a baby after having the ovary removed and cryopreserved before she entered puberty. Photo: Moaza al-Matrooshi of Dubai became the first woman in the world to have a baby using an ovary that was …

London, United Kingdom – December 16, 2016 – Amazon had completed its first fully autonomous drone delivery to an Amazon customer; It happened in the UK, where someone named Richard ordered an Amazon Fire Stick streaming device and a bag of popcorn and found the goods at his doorstep in the Cambridgeshire countryside 13 minutes later, thus setting the new …

Belgaum, India – December 8, 2016 – As many as 661 skaters from across the country created a new world record for the Largest roller skating relay (24 hours) by skating non-stop for 24 hours in Belgaum, Karanataka, India, during an event organized by Shivaganga Roller Skating Academy and Trinity College. Photo: Skaters from Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, …

Moscow, Russia – December 8, 2016 – Figure skaters and hockey players from capital sporting schools tested a giant skating rink with an ice surface of 20,1 thousand sq.m at VDNH (the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), which sets the new world record for the Largest mobile skating ring with artificial ice surface. Photo: Figure skaters and hockey players …

Clemson, South Carolina, USA – December 5, 2016 – The world’s first 100 percent solar-powered, mobile health clinic was recently unveiled at Clemson University Joseph F. Sullivan Center on campus; the clinic will provide educational opportunities for Clemson students and increase outreach efforts to underserved populations in the Upstate and beyond; the new, one-of-a-kind vehicle includes other features that increase …

Mauvoisin Dam, Switzerland – December 2, 2016 – An Aussie trio called How Ridiculous breaks the Guinness world record for the highest basketball shot, launching the ball from the top of a dam in Switzerland; they launched the ball from a height of 180.968m / 593.73 feet on the top of Mauvoisin Dam into a net on the ground below. …