Midlands world record breakers
The 2013 Guinness World Record has been released and there are quite a few entries from the Midlands including most Toe Wrestling World Championships won, largest tongue and quickest escape of a straitjacket.
The Guinness World Records, the global authority on record breaking achievements, first published the best-selling book in 1955 and has sold more than 120 million copies.
This year has increased the boundaries of record breaking, presenting a wide spectrum of records from all over the globe.
- Largest garden spade - Worcestershire
- Most microlights flying simultaneously - Telford
- Heaviest onion & heaviest potato - Two individual records - Nottinghamshire
- Oldest active boxer - Nottinghamshire
- Fastest escape from a straitjacket - Leicestershire
- Most gravy wrestling championship wins - Leicestershire
- Largest trousers - Leicestershire
- Heaviest weight lifted with an eye socket - Leicestershire
- Fastest marathon dressed as a fairy - Leicestershire
- Youngest person to row the Indian Ocean solo (female) - Leicestershire
- First female to row the Indian Ocean solo - Leicestershire
- Fastest cycle across Europe (North Cape to Tarifa) - individual - Leicestershire
- Oldest living bearded dragon - Leicestershire
- Oldest locomotive roundhouse - Derbyshire
- Longest rail grind - snowboard - Staffordshire
- Oldest wing walker - West Midlands
- Most push ups in one minute with a 40 lb pack - West Midlands
- Fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform (male) - West Midlands
- Longest tongue - West Midlands
- Largest chocolate bar - Derbyshire
- Highest altitude by taxi - Staffordshire
- Longest journey by taxi - Staffordshire
- Longest journey by taxi - Staffordshire
- Most Toe Wrestling World Championships won - Men - Stoke on Trent
- Oldest newspaper delivery person- female - Shrewsbury
