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Limca World Records of Indians
PART - 5
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| WR: Most Wins |
| With the 2000 Sydney Olympics, India has won 74 matches, the most by any country. |
| WR: Biggest Victory Margin |
| India created history by beating USA 24-1 on August 11, 1932 at Los Angeles. The nxt highest victory marginwas in 1980 when India beat Tanzania 18-0. |
| WR: First World Champion |
| Sumita Laha set a world record in squant in the 75 kg category in 1989. She improved her own record with a squat of 225 kg in the 1990 national championship. |
| WR: Centre-Fire-Gold |
| Jaspal Rana clinched a gold in the men's centre-fire pistol event in the national Games held at Manipur in 1999. |
| WR: Perfect Score |
| Abhinav Bindra, a class IX student of Chandigarh shot a perfect score 600/600 in the air rifle (ISU) category at the Chandigarh State shooting Championship at Patilal Rao range eclipsing the previous mark 597/600 set by Austria's Wolfram Wibel. |
| WR: Swiming All The Channels! |
| Rupali Rupale, 17, of Mumbai crossed the Robben Island Channel in South Africa, a distance of 19.5 km from Anchor Bay sea point to Robben Island and Blouberg Island in the summer of 2000 |
| WR: Hadicapped Gibraltar Straits Swimmer |
| Deaf and dumb Taranath Shenoy crossed in 5 hr 45 min on August 4, 1988. |
| WR: Longest Match |
| The doubles match between Vijay and Anand Amritraj against Australia's Colin Dibley and John Alexander at Calcutta was spread over two days (May 12-13, 1974) and lasted 4 hr 45 min. |
| WR: Hall Of Frame Thrice |
| Vijay Amritraj is the only player to have won the Hall of Fame Tennis tournaments in USA thrice-in 1976, 1980 and 1984 |
| WR: 100 Kg Jerk |
| At the 1994 Horoshima Asiad, Kunjurani Devi cleared 100 Kg in the jerk event that bettered the previous world mark of 92.5 kg. Her aggregate clearance was a new national record but only got her a bronze. |
| WR: Trans-India Paraplane Expedition |
| Lt Anil Kumar Yadav of Artillery covered 3,000 km from Jaisalamer to Calcutta through 18 cities on his paraplane in 31 days, starting on Sept. 21,1994. |
| WR: Fastest Skydiving Jumps |
| Flt Lt (later Sqn Ldr) Sanjay Thapar of the IAF made 46 jumps from a height of 914.63 m (3,000 ft) in a span of three hours (7.30-10.30 a.m.) at an airfield at Saraswa. |
| WR: Jump with the largest flag |
| On August 6, 1997, Sqn Ldr Sanjay Thapar para-jumped from an Mi-17 helicopter at 7,000 ft with the national flag measring 2,226 sq ft (60 x 37.1 ft) and weighing 42 kg at the Air Force base, Hilton. The flag was made of special rip-stop nylon aas the rular khadi one would have posed serious problems |
| WR: First On Mt Everest |
| Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmud Hillary of new Zealand scaled the 8,853 m (29,038 ft) Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, on May 29, 1953. Tenzing, nicknamed 'Tiger of the Snows' |
| WR: Twice on Mt Everest |
| Santosh Yadav (b. Oct. 10, 1967) is the first and only women to have climed Mt Everest twice at 10.45 a.m. (Nepal ST) on may 10,1993, just in a year's time after she had first climbed the peak on May 12, 1992! |
| WR: First Himalayan Expedition By The Disabled |
| June 8, 1992 was a Red Letter Day for 11 visual and hearing impaired people who as part of the world's first expedition to the Himalayas by the disabled people. |
| WR: Highest Motorcycle Raid |
| Lt Col. S. Naicker and Manoj Taranvir Singh of Corps of Signals organised a motorcycle raid starting at Delhi on Oct. 5, 1994 and ending at Khardung-la on Oct.10. |
| WR: First Circumnavigation By Disabled Sailor |
| Major Ashok Kumar Singh, a permanent member of the Trishna crew and winner of the National Adventure Award in 1994 was the first disabled sailor in the world to sail around the globe |
| WR: Shortest Couple |
| Lal Singh Garcha (36) and his wife Surji Kaur of Janakpuri, Ludhiana are approximately a meter each (3 ft7 in and 3 ft 5 in) |
| WR: Longest Moustache |
| kalyan Ramji Saini, 70, f Rajasthan grew a moustache 3.39 m (11.11 ft) long. After an eye operation in 1966 he was asked not to wet his face for two or three weeks. At the end of three his moustache had grown 70cm (2 ft 4 in)! |
| WR: Longest Hair |
| Jagdambika Jagatmata a sanyasin or religious mendicant of ujjain, has hair which is 14 ft 4 in long. |
| WR: Longest Fingernails |
| Shridhar M. Chillal of Pune, Maharashtra, a photographer by profesion, keeps the long fingernails of his left hand literally under wraps. The combined length of the nails hand comes to 6.15 m (242 in). |
| WR: Largest Joint Family |
| The Narasingannavars of Lokur, Karnataka have 170 members living as a single unit Framers by profession, they grow almost everything they need on their 200-acre farm. |
| WR: Fastest Computing |
| Shakuntala Dev of Bangalore took only 50 seconds to compute the 23th root of a 201 digit number in 1977 while it took a computer over a minute. On June 18, 1980, |
| WR: Fastest Typist |
| Abhishek Jain of Goraya, Punjab is the first and youngest typist in the country to win a gold at the INTERSTENO World Championship held at Brussels in 1991. In June 1995, he was again declared fastest typist in the world with a speed of 135 wpm. |
| WR: Fastest Accurate Typing |
| On August 4, 1988 Rajinder Singh of Theog, H.P. typed at an average speed of 484 strokes a minute (96.8 words) and completed 2,90,392 strokes over a continuous stretch of 10 hours at Shimla. His accuracy figure stood at 99.97% |
| WR: Marathon Typing |
| Dinesh Kumar Pathak typed non-stop for 210 hours at the Hindustan Mitra Mandal School, Jsmshedpur starting at 12 non on Jan .4, 1999 and ending at 4 p.m. on Jan. 14 |
| WR: Marathon Typing On Pc |
| Mahesh Kumar (25) of Chandigarh typed non-stop on a PC for 31 hours from 203 printed pages from the Selected on may 7, 1998 at 11:15 a.m.he finished the following day at 6:15 p.m. |
| WR: Longest Fax |
| Inder Pal Komal of Delhi sent a 100 m long greeting on fax to Mark Cohen of Gunness Book of Records on Feb. 22, 1993 starting at 19:01.48 sec. It took 2 hr 54 min 47 sec. |
| WR: Longest Will |
| A will drafted by Choudhary Hiranand of New Delhi for his client Guinness Rishi on April 1, 1994 had 489 pages (1,04,567 words). |
| WR: Shortest Will |
| Sumit Prakash Rishi wrote a two-word will - Sarve Ma (all to mother)- on August 28, 1995 wiling all his worldly belongings to his mother! |
| WR: Longest lease |
| Bimla Rishi of Delhi Signed a lease in the first floor of building for Guinness Rishi's International Record Breakers Hall of Fame for 9,99,99,999 years and 364 days (one less than a billion years) charging only one paisa per year on July 13, 1999. She has already received for one million years in advance. |
| WR: Longest Letter |
| Reagan Jones of Kerala took four years to complete a letter addressed to pope John paul II, using more than 10 crore words on the 2.4 km (7,872 ft) long, 61 cm (2 ft) wide paper which weighed over 100 kg. |
| WR: Fastest Ndddle-Threading |
| Om Prakash Singh of Allahabad threaded a strand of cotton through a No. 13 needle 20,675 in 2 hours on July 25,1993. |
| WR: Longest Sari |
| In 1997, as part of the 50 years of Independence celebrations, Prithvi Silk Creations of Banglore wove a pure crepe silk sari 121 m long and 45 in wide. |
| WR: Most Knots In A Carpet |
| A hand-knotted carpet 35.5 x 55.8 cm (14 x 22 in) with 655 knots per sq cm and woven with Chinese silk yarn was made in 22 months (July 1991-May 1993) by Kapoor Rug Corporation of Jaipur |
| WR: Largest Skybag |
| Eight people of the bag division of Sane Sportswear at Vadodara made a skybag 13.3 ft long . 4.16 ft wide and 8.75 ft tall in 105 hours at a cost of Rs 85,000 |
| WR: Largest Sky Lantern |
| 38 ft tall, 22 ft wide lantern using 2000 sheets of 3 x 3 sq inch thermocol and 25 kg nails. The lamp built in 15 days (225 manhours) was lit by ten 250 watt bulbs for a month from Oct. 15, 1998 at Ganesh kala Krida, Pune |
| WR: Largest Air-Cooler |
| A giant cooler 18 x 19 x 9 ft was installed at Appu Ghar, the popular amusement park at Delhi in April 2000. |
| WR: Largest Field Kitchen |
| A field kitchen was set up for famine relief at Ahmednager, mahashtra in 1973. The government provided 1.2 million famine-struck people with subsistence meals. |
| WR: Most On A Cycle |
| Mahesh Prakash Sankhala of Nagpur road a bicycle for 381 in which 21 children on Jan. 26, 1992. |
| WR: Most In A Maruti Car |
| Giri Bagri of Chennai who had won the Pack-your-Maruti contest held in 1989 with 35 people beat his own record on Feb. 26, 1995.Forty-two people actually got into the car which was driven for a short distance! |
| WR: Motorcycle Pyramid |
| On Oct. 15, 1999, the Shweta Ashwas, their motorcycle display team, made a pyramid of 151 men on 11 Enfield mobikes and traversed 215 m. |
| WR: Fastest Motorcycle Pyramid |
| A 15-members team of the ASC Tornadoes made a human pyramid on three bikes and covered a distance of 1 km on a circular track in 1 min 21.5 sec |
| WR: Toothbrush Chain |
| A toothbrush chain of nearly 70,000 used brushesh was made by Ad-agency McCann-Erikson for Oral-B laboratories in Feb. 2000 |
| WR: Chain From Cigaratte Packets |
| Dr A. Koteswar Rao of Jind made a 6.1466 km (20,166 ft) long, 2.75 cm wide chain from 60,498 empty cigarette packets of 57 different brands without any glue. |
| WR: Non-stop Two-Wheeler Driving |
| On June 3, 1990, three riders, Harprakash Rishi, Amarjeet singh and Navjyot Chaddha road a 100 cc Kinetic Honda non-stop for 1,001 hours in 42 days covering 30,965 km using 621 litres of petroland 21 liters of oil. |
| WR: Non-Stop Hairdressing |
| Ramzan ali of Pitampura, Delhi, dressed, styles and cut the hair of 1,200 clients from 4 p.m. on April 23,1999 to 10p.m. on April 27. |
| WR: Non-Stop Clapping |
| V.Jayaraman of Tamil Nadu clapped for 58 hr and 9 min at Chennai from 6:35 p.m. on Feb. 12 to 1:40 p.m. on Feb. 15, 1988. The claps being audible from a distance of 109.7 m. |
| WR: Non-Stop Hand-Shaking |
| Yougesh Sharma of Gwalior shook hands non-stop with 31,118 people in 8 hours on Jan. 14, 1996 at the Gwalior Trade Fair, breaking his previous record of shaking hands with 28,233 people in 8 hours. |
| WR: Longest Wall Press |
| Raj Kumar Chakraborty of Rourkela sat in the static wall press posture for all hr 5 min without any break on April 24,1994 |
| WR: Variety Skipping |
| Hav. C. Chadrasekar of 18 Engineer Regiment set records in four events of skipping, starting at 7 a.m. on June 19, 2000 at Ferozepur, U.P. where his regiment was stationed. |
| WR: Standing On One Leg |
| Amresh Kumar Jha (25) of Rahika, Bihar, stood on one leg for 65 hr 50 min (taking five minute breaks after every hour) in the Countryard of the Rahika Secondary School Officer. |
| WR: Longest Distance Crawled |
| In 1985, Jagdish Chandra crawled 1,400 km from Aligarh to Vaishno Devi, Jammu taking 1 year and 3 months to comlete his feat. |
| WR: Most Burpees |
| James Joseph of Combatore executed 1,968 burpees (squat thrust with a vertical jump from crouch position) in one hour from 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. on August 25, 1998 at new Delhi. |
| WR: Roller Limbo |
| Sneha Sri (b. August 15,1993) of Vishkhapatnam limbo roller skated under a bar placed 4.5 in above the ground on March 30,1999 at kakinda, A.P. knocking two inches off the previous world record of 4.7 in. |
| WR: Cocunut Peeling |
| Josh George of Kozhikode, kerala dehusked a coconut in 25 seconds using only his teeth at the Kozhikode Corpation Stadium on August 22, 1997. Anil Bangera of Mangalore peeled 3 cocunuts with his teeth in 4 min 30 secon July 30, 1999 at Mangolore. E.N. Dayanandan of Puthiyatheru, Kannur, Kerala took 57 seconds to peel a coconut using his fingernails. |
| WR: Shoes |
| Asfia Quadri (b. Nov. 25, 1993)of Hyderabad was 31/2 on June 16, 1997 when her father bought her a pair of Bata Ballerina size 9 shoe and white socks size 2 for her first day at school. Since then, he has bought a new pair of shoes and scoks every working day of school! On July 7, 2000 the collection numbered 588 pair of shoes with scoks. |
| WR: Vintage Cars |
| Industrial Pranlal Bhogilal's collectio of 176 cars which includes 136 Rolls Royces and many vintage cars and modles of custom-built cars for Hollywood stars |
| WR: Largest Painting Contest |
| The Camlin annul painting started in 1982, about 500 schools took part.In the 1998 contest, In the 1998 contest, the participation from over 4,000 schools exceeded 30 laks! There were over 35,000 prize-winners. |
| WR: Three Indian Beauties |
| For the first time in the world, all the three crowns were won by gorgeous Indian girls! Lara Dutta was Miss Universe at Cyprus on May 13, 2000, Priyanka Chopra was crowned Miss World on Nov. 30, 2000 and Diya Mirza's Miss Asia Pacific crown won at Manila on Dec.2,2000 |
| WR: Computer Assembly In 90 Min |
| Ayush Rathi 7, of New Digamber Public School, Indore demonstrated the complete assembling of a computer assembling of a computer with the loading of mandatory software and operated the system at Microline Systems, Indore on June 7, 2000. |
| WR: Software executives |
| Ajay Puri (b.sept.12, 1996)started operating computers when he was one-and-a-half and by the time he was three, he was proficient with Office 2000, Microsoft World, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer |
| Anshuman Das (b.June 27, 1997) was awarded the Vidya certificate by the Aptech Computer Education for desktop management skills and on may 11,2000 was declared Aptech's youngest computer whizkid amongst learners in 1,500 centres of 30 countries |
| Akhil Khandelwal (b.March 22, 1996) started working on MS Power Point, MS Word, and the software programmes since he was three. He can create slides subjectswise, brows pictures from Clip Art, animate pictures in slides, scan from Adobe Photoshop, surf and download from the Internet. |
| Bhupika Yeshpal Gautam of Ulhasnager, Maharashtra at 5 year 10 months, cleared the Certificate Course in Computer Programming (CCCP) conducted by the Maharashtra State Govt. on June 21, 1999. |
| Akshat Singhal of Jaipur was Microsoft Certified System's Engineer (MCSE) at 14. At 15, he became the youngest Certified Lotus Specialist and Certified Lotus Professional. |
| WR: Roller Limbo Under Marutis |
| Tejaswini Ramachandra Kadam July 1, 1996, limbo skated under 25 Maruti cars (800 cc model) in 29.2 sec at 10.00 a.m. on March 7,2000.The event was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Shiroli, MIDC, kolhapur. |