The farthest distance traveled non-stop by worm move is 59.49 m (195 ft 2 in) and was achieved by Joel Massuda (USA) in San Jose, California, USA on 30 July 2013. Joel’s attempt was held on a turf covered American football field and his total attempt time was 1 minute 28.16 seconds.
The normal intelligible outdoor range of the male human voice in still air is 180 m (590 ft 6.6 in). The silbo, the whistled language of the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Canary Island of La Gomera, is intelligible under ideal conditions at 8 km (5 miles). There is a recorded case, under optimal acoustic conditions, of the human voice being detectable at a distance of 17 km (10.5 miles) across still water at night.
Sam Wakeling (United Kingdom) covered 453.6 km (281.85 miles) on a unicycle in a 24 hour period at Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom, from 29 to 30 September 2007. Sam used the event to raise over £1500 for Christian Aid.
The farthest distance travelled on a skateboard in 24 hours was 296.12 km (184 miles) by James Peters (USA) on the Greenlake bike trail in Seattle, Washington, United States on 11 May 2007.
The farthest distance travelled controlling a golf ball is 2,903 metres (1.8 miles), completed by Ashrita Furman (USA) at the St. John’s University track in New York City, New York, USA, on 11 July 2010. He used a sand wedge to bounce a golf ball while completing more than seven laps around the track before mishitting and losing control. The attempt lasted 41 min, 22 sec.
The farthest distance travelled on a unicycle while juggling three objects is 4,805 m (15,764 ft), achieved by Jonathan Oberlerchner (Austria) at Leopold Wagner Arena in Klagenfurt, Austria on 25 July 2013. Jonathan Oberlerchner first rode a unicycle when he was eight years old. Eight years later he achieved this outstanding Guinness World Records title!
Ken Looi (New Zealand) covered 29.99 km (18.63 miles) on a unicycle in a 1 hour period at Victoria Park Oval, New South Wales, Australia, on 18 August 2009. Ken beat the previous record by 2.4km. He completed 73 laps of the circuit in one hour.
The farthest distance travelled with a football balanced on the head is 15.2 km (9.44 mi) and was achieved by Abdul Halim (Bangladesh) at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 22 October 2011.
The greatest distance wakeboarding in 24 hours by a team is 819.49 km (509.2 mi) by Neill Barker, Nick Binkley, Adam Errington, Tony Finn, Tom Fooshee, Pete Kennedy, Mike Olson, Jimmy Redmon, Brian Wheeler and Amber Wing (all USA) at Wake Nation Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, from 25-26 June 2010. The team wakeboarded laps around a 564 m-long circuit at the Wake Nation Cincinnati facility, which allows wakeboarders to ride around the lake on an overhead cable system, as opposed to being towed by
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The greatest distance wakeboarding in 24 hours (male) was 514 km (319.38 mi) by Igor Deranja (Croatia) in the Adriatic Sea on 15-16 September 2010. Deranja was towed between the cities of Crikvenica and Pula, as well wakeboarding around an open water circuit in the city of Porec midway through the journey.