Heaviest strawberry
The world’s heaviest strawberry weighed 231 g (8.14 oz) and was grown by G. Andersen (UK) of Folkstone, Kent, UK in 1983.
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Heaviest squash
The heaviest squash weighs 674.31 kg (1,486.6 lb) and was grown by Joel Jarvis (Canada) and weighed at Port Elgin Pumpkinfest in Ontario, Canada, on 1 October 2011.
Heaviest soursop
The heaviest soursop fruit weighed 3.69 kg (8.14 lb) when measured on 8 June 2010 and was grown by Ken Verosko in Captain Cook, Hawaii, USA. The fruit had a circumference of 60.9 cm (24 in) and a length of 29.2 cm (11.5 in).
Heaviest sumo deadlift in one minute
The heaviest sumo deadlift in one minute is 4778.6 kg (10,535 lb) by Walter Urban (USA) at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, on 29 September 2012. Urban completed 49 repetitions of 97.5 kg (215 lb) during his record attempt, broadcast live on CBC’s Sports Day in Canada.
Heaviest sumo deadlift in one hour (female)
The heaviest sumo deadlift by a female in one hour is 47,552.9 kg (104,836 lb 3 oz), and was achieved by Thienna Ho (USA) at the St. Emydius Gym in San Francisco, California, USA, on 14 August 2010 Thienna lifted a 45.8 pound barbell for 2,289 repetitions. Amanda Mochan adjudicated.
Heaviest sumo deadlift in one hour
The heaviest sumo deadlift in one hour was 54,464 kg (120,072 lb) by Nick Molloy (UK) at Esporta Health Club in Hemel Hempstead, UK, on 21 March 2011. Molloy completed 851 acceptable repetitions of a 64 kg barbell with weight plates and clips. He was witnessed by Dan Little (UK), Exercise & Lifestyle Manager of Esporta; Grant Smith (UK), a REPS Level 3 certified personal trainer, and Roger Davis (UK), a seven-time world champion across various disciplines in the International All-Round Weightlifting Association.
Heaviest tank (present day)
The M1A2 Abrams main battle tank, produced by General Dynamics Land Systems (USA) has a combat weight of 63 tonnes (138,900 lb), making it the heaviest tank currently in operational service. It is equipped with a 120 mm gun and has a top speed of 68 km/h (42 mph).
Heaviest tank
The heaviest tank ever constructed was the German Panzerkampfwagen Maus II, which at 192 tonnes (423,287 lb) weighed as much as 130 modern saloon cars. By 1945 it had reached only the experimental stage and was abandoned. The heaviest operational tank used by any army was the 75.2-tonne (165,787 lb) 13-man French Char de Rupture 2C bis of 1922. It carried a 15.5-cm. (6.1-in.) howitzer and was powered by two 250-hp. (186 kW) engines giving a maximum speed of 12 km./h. (7.5 mph).
Heaviest sweet potato
The world’s heaviest sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) weighed 37 kg (81 lb 9 oz) on 8 March 2004 and was grown by Manuel Pérez Pérez (Spain) in Güime, Lanzarote, Spain.
Heaviest tomato
The world’s heaviest tomato weighed 3.51 kg (7 lb 12 oz) and was grown by G. Graham (USA) of Edmond, Oklahoma, USA in 1986.