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Largest Wii Sports Bowling Tournament

The largest Wii Sports Bowling tournament featured 436 participants and was organised by TexanPlus at the Reliant Center, Houston, Texas, USA, on 1 October 2009. The participants were all senior citizens, and the tournament was organised as part of a health fair where they were offered advice and free vaccinations.

Largest Wing Chun display

The largest Wing Chun display involved 3,167 participants in an event organized by the World Wing Chun Union, Foshan Municipality Sports Bureau, and Foshan City Nanhai Section Luocun District Office in Foshan City, China, on 24 September 2010. The attempt took place in Luocun, where is the hometown of the Wing Chun master Ye Wen(English name: Yip Man). Ye Wen was a famous Chinese martial artist.

Largest winekeeper

The largest winekeeper is a custom built unit at the Ristorante Panorama (USA) and has 120 useable taps each of which is connected to a different bottle of wine. The item was examined and measured at the Ristorante Panorama in Philadelphia, USA, on 19 January 2010. The wines are kept pressurized with nitrogen and are kept in two fridges below the installation. The wine keeper measures 4.07 m (13 ft 4 in) long, 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) high and 55 cm (1 ft Continue reading →

Largest wooden baseball bat

The largest baseball bat measures 408.9 cm. (161 in. = 13 ft. 5 in.) with a circumference of 101.6 cm. (40 in.) and is owned by the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks baseball club (Fargo Baseball L.L.C) of Fargo, North Dakota, USA. The bat is known as ‘Big Bruce’ and made from white ash, the same material as major league baseball bats. It was named after Bruce Thom, President of the RedHawks’ Minor League Baseball team the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks. A computer measured the specifications of an actual Louisville Continue reading →

Largest wooden barrel / cask

The largest wooden barrel measured 9 m (29 ft 7 in) tall, 9 m (29 ft 7 in) in diameter, and has a capacity of 540,000 litres (142,652.9 US gal). It was made by Fundokin Soy Co. Ltd. in Usuki City, Oita, Japan, in 2002. The barrel was made for brewing soy sauce.

Largest woodblock print

The largest woodblock print was created by 334 children and had a total area of 345.6 m² (3,720 ft²) when displayed at the Historic Fortification Tower, Lich, Germany on 19 September 2004. Multiple canvasses were joined together to form the painting which meaured 32 m (104.9 ft) long and 10.8 m (35.4 ft) wide.

Largest wood fired ceramic kiln

The largest wood fired ceramic kiln is the Jingdezhen Zhen Kiln measuring 260.03 cubic meters (919.24 cubic feet). It was certified at the Exhibition Region of Old Kiln Folk Customs in Jingdezhen city, Jiangxi province, China, on 22 October 2009. The kiln is in the shape of an egg. It is 18 meters (59.05 ft) long, 5.6 meters (18.37 ft) at the tallest point and 2.6 meters (8.53 ft) at the lowest point, the widest point is 4.6 meters (15.09 ft) and the narrowest point Continue reading →