This list contains the world records set by members of the "Rekord-Klub SAXONIA" (Records that have been broken in italic letters).
Christian Adam (Germany):
cycling backwards (113.3 km [70 mi 400 yd])
cycling backwards while playing a violin (60,45 km [37 mi 1000 yd])
PHOTO / QUICKTIME VIDEO
(640 kB) / AVI VIDEO (840 kB)
Horst Alldag (Germany):
iron bar bending (10 mm Ø bar in 7.5 sec.),
spike bending (270 iron nails in 53:53 min),
holding an 11 kg weight (73 sec on stretched out arm)
Walter Anderlik (Germany):
longest wooden chain made from one single piece of wood (25 m [27 yd
1 ft] long)
Herbert L. Becker (USA) HERBERT
BECKER'S WEB PAGE
fastest strait jacket escape (24 seconds)
Rolf Becker (Germany):
street organ playing (48 hours) PHOTO,
largest bottle opener (2.5 m long, 35 kg)
Ing. Arnulf Bietsch (Germany):
largest collection of yard-sticks (>20,000)
Peter Both (Germany):
stacking matches on a bottleneck (8146), DETAILS
AND PHOTO
smallest spinning-wheel (3.65 cm (1 7/16 in) high, wheel-diameter
1.2 cm), DETAILS, PHOTO AND VIDEO
smallest tobacco-pipe (25 mm long)
Joop Bouwman (Netherlands):
largest collection of ball-point pens (130,000; now sold)
Martin Bukovsek (Germany)
motionlessness (16:16:16 hrs.), DETAILS AND
PHOTO
largest human pyramid (180 persons) PHOTO
Richard Chenoweth, Dan Walker and Brian Peterson (USA)
longest distance navigated on jet-ski in open sea (1484 km [922,2 mi])
Georges Christen (Luxemburg): PHOTO
hot-water bottle bursting with lung power (12.6 sec)
spike bending (368 iron nails in one hour)
pulling a railway carriage (20 t [20.5 tons]) with teeth (200 m
[220 yd])
pulling a bus (12.38 t [13.65 tons]) with teeth (28.50 m [31
yd 6 in[ )
Herbert C. Delfs (Germany):
longest noodle (865 m [946 yd])
Paddy Doyle (Great Britain):
101 records for fitness and martial arts DETAILS
Marianne Dumjahn (Germany)
largest collection of sugar bags (more than 255,000) MARIANNE's
HOMEPAGE (in German language)
Gary Duschl (Canada)
longest gum wrapper chain (9,38 km [30,774 ft] long) GARY'S
HOMEPAGE
Toni Ernst (Switzerland):
soccer ball balancing (not to be confused with ball control which means
"ball juggling"):
on the foot (9:50 min.), on the head (37:15 min.)
John Evans (USA): DETAILS AND
PHOTOS
six giant vegetable records (broccoli, romanesco: 19 kg [35 lb],
carrot: 10,314 kg [18.985 lb], chard: 38.98 kg [71.75 lb],
kohlrabi: 21.46 kg [39.5 lb], garden beet: 23.22 kg [42.75 lb],
red cabbage: 24.58 kg [45.25 lb], kale: 15.2 kg [28 lb])
Gisela Ewald (Germany):
endurance typing (276 hrs.)
Holger Freelandt (Switzerland):
domino stacking (324 dominoes on top of a single vertical one) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
Stefan Gauler (Switzerland):
one hour unicycling (20220 m (12 mi 997 yd) on a standard unicycle
PHOTO, 16048 m (9 mi 1714 yd)
on a "giraffe" unicycle PHOTO)
24 hrs. unicycling (279,274 km (173 mi 1003 yd))
Peter Gläßer (Germany):
largest "smoking man" for pastilles (insence sticks) (2.48 m
high) PHOTO
Tom Glöß (Germany):
largest "smoking man" for pastilles (insence sticks) (2.31
m high),
smallest "smoking man" for pastilles (52 mm high) PHOTO
largest musical box (figures 2 m tall)
Dean Gould (Great Britain):
coin snatching (328) and beer mat throwing (2,204) in the same style DETAILS
beer mat flipping (111 with one hand and 65 with both hands), DETAILS
pancake tossing (399 in 3 minutes) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
stamp licking (309 in 5 minutes), DETAILS
needle threeding (3471 times within 2 hours) DETAILS
recalling the first 1,000 digits of Pi from memory (8:14 minutes)
eating 63 grapes with a plastic teaspoon in three minutes
eating 51 grains of rice with chopsticks in three minutes
eating 113 pieces of sweetcorn with a cocktail stick in three minutes
eating three dry cream crackers (3:07 minutes)
picking 50 winkles from their shells (1:22 minutes)
Dr. Frank Grätz (Germany):
largest collection of Doctor thesises (more than 121,000) DR.
GRÄTZ HOMEPAGE (in German language)
Stephan Gruber (Germany): STEPHAN'S HOMEPAGE
(in German language)
table football, singles (50 hours)
table football, doubles (83:48 hours)
sorting a deck of 52 playing cards (47 seconds) DETAILS
Gero Hilliger (Germany):
fastest cartoonist (one portrait in 6.2 seconds, 384 portraits in 90 minutes)
DETAILS, SAMPLE PORTRAITS AND VIDEO
Adrian Hilton (Great Britain):
non-stop recital of the Complete Works of Shakespeare (110:46 hrs) DETAILS
Doug Hunt (Canada): DOUG'S HOMEPAGE
tallest stilts (15.63 m [50 ft 5 in] tall)
Rolf Jarschel (Germany):
largest cigarette lighter (2.435 m high), PHOTO
smallest cigar lighter (8.23 mm x 8.75 mm)
Gerd Junghans (Germany) BIG CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
(in German language)
biggest hammer (6.37 m [20 ft 10 in] long, 2.20 m [7 ft 3
in] tall)
biggest rattle (2,58 m long, 3,04 m tall)
biggest mousetrap (4,20 m x 2,07 m)
biggest broom (7,62 m long, 1,85 m wide)
biggest rake (7 m long, 2,33 m wide)
Mag. Andreas Kastler (Austria):
largest table (organiser) (3200 m long)
Josef Kau (Germany):
largest collection of briquettes (2560 different) PHOTO
Hartmut Kiele (Germany):
soccer ball balancing on the head (45:32 min.) PHOTO
Manfred Klauda (Germany):
largest collection of chamber pots (9400),
largest collection of pedal cars (454),
longest journey in a pedal car (458.8 km (285 miles)) PHOTO
Jochem Knie (Germany):
largest marionette (a 2.83 m long, 2.81 m high horse with rider) PHOTO
Friedrich Konrad (Austria):
beer keg lifting (158 kg [349 lb]) PHOTO
Jürgen Kopmann (Germany):
playing games on a computer (166 hrs.)
Peter Koppen (Germany):
paper ship folding (200,000) DETAILS AND PHOTOS
Ralf Laue (Germany):
largest fan of cards (326 cards in one hand, colour and value of each one
visible), DETAILS AND PHOTO
longest rebus (37,42 m [40 yd 2 ft 9 in] long, 272 pictures),
largest magic square (2121 X 2121 numbers), DETAILS
domino stacking (555 dominoes on top of a vertical one) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
calendar memorising (computing the days of the week for the 365 days
of a year, which are listed "shuffled together", in 222 sec.
without errors and for 20 days from 1901-2000 in 42.6 sec) DETAILS,
letter opening (1000 within 29:03 min.) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
pancake tossing (416 in 3 minutes) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
speed balloon modeling (100 in 15:35 minutes) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
longest web page (563.62 km [350 mi 323 yd]) HERE IS IT!
sorting a deck of 52 playing cards (53.2 seconds) DETAILS
Martin Läuter (Germany):
stacking matches on a bottleneck (1340) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
Uwe Lenhardt (Germany): UWE'S
HOMEPAGE (in German language)
speed balloon modeling (1403 "animals" in 6 hrs, 2228
in 10 hours) DETAILS
Charles Linster (USA):
push-ups, non-stop (6006) DETAILS
Lori Lynn Lomeli (USA)
spinning 82 hula hoops simultaneously for three complete revolutions LORI'S
HOMEPAGE
Jürgen Löschner (Germany):
largest collection of nut crackers (more than 2,530),
biggest nut cracker (5.87 m [6 yd 1 ft 3 in] tall) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
Alfred Manthe (Germany):
largest collection of cigar bands (200,000)
Alvaro de Marichalar (Spain):
longest distance navigated on jet-ski in open sea (2600 nautical miles
= 4700 km)
Theodor Mayr (Germany):
tallest match tower (2.5 m 2 ft 2 in tall) PHOTOS
Werner Michael (Germany):
fastest cartoonist (164 portraits within 2:51 hrs)
Gert Mittring (Germany):
memorizing 22 digits in 4 sec. and 30 binary digits in 3 sec.
calculating the square root of a six-digit number to eight significant
numbers (44.7 sec)
fastest extraction of a 13th root from a 100-digit number (39.0 sec)
calendar memorising (computing the days of the week for 20 days from 1901-2000
in 38.2 sec and for 20 days from 1600-2100 in one minute) DETAILS,
Peter Moreno (Germany)
most different voices by a ventriloquist (ten) Peter
Moreno's Homepage (in German language)
Stefano Morselli (Italy):
800 m backwards running (2:57:39 min) Stefano's
Homepage
Gianni Mucignat (Germany):
ice ball stacking (539 ice balls on one waffle)
Gerriet Müller (Germany):
smallest hot air balloon modell (205 mm 8 in high, weight 3.5 g
(2 dr)
smallest steam ship modell (103 mm long 4 in, weight 38 g 1 3/8
oz)
Manfred Nüscheler (Switzerland): DETAILS AND PHOTO
roller cycling (maximal power: 2378 Watt for 5 seconds)
Günter Offermann (Germany):
largest bottle cap collection (103,000 from 177 countries) PHOTO
Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara (Israel):
longest kiss (30:45 hrs) DETAILS
Rob Peterson (USA): DETAILS
most consecutive tennis serves (8,017 in 10:07 hours)
longest tennis rally (15674 shots in 9:10 hours)
Dirk Petzold (Germany)
has visited 933 zoological gardens in 18 countries DIRK'S
HOMEPAGE
Jens Pohl (Germany): HOMEPAGE (in
German language)
Diabolo throw for high (standard: 24.47 m, freestyle: 29.55 m) PHOTO
dice stacking (22) PHOTO
Karl-Eugen Reck (Germany):
30 min. bench press with 50 kg weight: (1107),
30 min. bench press with 40 kg weight: (1435) as a member of a record breaking
team of four
2 min. sit-ups: (108)
press-ups 30 min. (1886) , 15 min. (1028), 5 min. (435)
Bimla Rishi (India):
shortest valid will (4 characters (2 words) in Hindi)
Guinness Rishi (India):
nonstop motorycle driving (1001 hrs non-stop with a team of three)
longest will (104567 words, 489 pages)
Ernst Roth (Switzerland): PHOTO
four records for largest vegetables, e. g. largest white cabbage (28,1
kg),
Felix Rotter (Germany):
largest collection of tea-bag labels (7234 from 75 coutries) DETAILS
AND PHOTO
Winfried Ruloffs & Otto Troppmann (Germany):
largest bicycle (4.5 m long, 2.10 m high),
largest motorcycle (3.45 m long, 2.25 m high)
smallest tandem (22 cm long), PHOTO
largest tandem (3.45 m long, 1.40 m high),
largest bagpipe (2.5 m long) PHOTO
Cathy C. Runyan- Svacina and Larry Svacina (USA):
largest marble tournament (569 competititors)
largest marble collection (about one million)
Salvatore Sabatino (Germany)
speed balloon modeling (328 figures in one hour) DETAILS
Roman Schedler (Austria): DETAILS,
PHOTOS UNS VIDEOS
Hula-Hoop with a 24 kg tractor tyre (72 turns),
largest Hula-Hoop (10 m diameter),
100 m running with Hula-Hoop (13.84 sec.)
Siegfried Schemken (Germany)
biggest collection of signed photos where the collector and a celibrity
are together on the photo DETAILS (in
German language)
Johann Schneider (Austria)
101 press-ups with hands on raw eggs QUICKTIME VIDEO
(640 kB) / AVI VIDEO (840 kB)
Rainer Schröder (Germany):
iron bar bending (five 12 mm Ø bars in 54.44 sec)
Dieter Senft (Germany):
largest bicycle (7.8 m [25 ft 7 in] long, 3.7 m [12 ft 2 in]
high), DETAILS AND PHOTOS
smallest tridem (54.5 cm [1 ft 9 1/2 in] long),
THE NEW RECORD (in German language)
highest coffee-grinder (3.29 m [10 ft 9 1/2
in] high), PHOTO
longest pedal car (13.30 m [43 ft 4 in] long) PHOTO
longest skooter (18.28 m [60 ft] long)
longest bicycle (25.22 m [82 ft 8 1/2 in] long)
longest yard-stick (22 m [72 ft7 in] long) PHOTO
Garie Sim (Singapur):
smallest teddy bear (1 mm [1/24 in]) GARIE'S HOMEPAGE
Jürgen Sinner (Germany):
street organ playing (60 hrs.)
Dorothea Spohler-Claußen (Germany)
has visited 121 theme parks in 10 countries
Murray Steinberg (USA)
largest collection of tie-pins (624)
Les Stewart (Australia):
typing the numbers from one to one million in words DETAILS
AND PHOTOS
Uday Mahadeo Talwalkar (India): DETAILS AND PHOTOS
... MORE
DETAILS AND PHOTOS
largest typewritten "painting" (6.50 m x 4 m [21.4 ft
x 13.3 ft])
Rev Dr Donald Thomas (USA)
longest sermon (93 hrs)
longest after-dinner speech (32:20 hrs)
Tip Top Till (Germany): TILL'S
HOMEPAGE (in German language)
speed balloon modeling (1616 "animals" in 6
hours) DETAILS
Triwengos, Bicycling / Juggling Show (Switzerland)
smallest tridem (44.5 cm [1 ft 5 1/2 in] long) Triwengos'
Homepage (in German language)
Heinrich Uhlendorf (Germany):
largest sand collection (2710 sorts of sand from all the world)
Günter Uhlig (Germany):
largest collection of yard-sticks (6500)
Angelika Unverhau (Germany):
largest collection of ball-point pens (more than 180,000)
Niek Vermeulen (Netherlands):
largest collection of airsickness bags (more than 1,500)
Manfred Wagner (Switzerland):
juggling with a 3 kg-ball (5500 kicks), PHOTO
tennis ball juggling (1:24:41 hrs.),
100 m football juggling (15.9 sec)
Hans-Wolfgang Walther (Germany):
organiser of the largest 10-minute chess tournament (304 players played
15711 games in 24 hrs.)
Dieter Wesch (Germany):
had 9,500 hitch-hikers in his car
Steve Woodmore (Great Britain):
fastest talker (595 words in 56.01 sec) Steve's
Homepage with DETAILS AND SOUND SAMPLES
Terry Wooten (USA):
pulling a 16,000-ton cruise ship
Fan Yang (Canada):
biggest soap-bubble 47.5 m (156 ft) long Fan
Yang's Homepage with DETAILS AND PHOTOS
20 former students from the IH Köthen:
indoor soccer marathon (120 hrs.)
