The largest women’s marathon was the Nagoya Women’s Marathon 2012, which had 13,114 participants and was held in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, on 11 March 2012. The Nagoya Women’s marathon 2012 was a qualifying race for the London Olympic, and its participants were solely women. Top three runners’ names and times, respectively, are Albina Mayorova (Russia) 2:23:52, Yoshimi Ozaki (Japan) 2:24:14, and Remi Nakazato (Japan) 2:24:28.
In the winter of 2010-11, a “super pack” of wolves numbering up to 400 reportedly terrorized the Russian town of Verkhoyansk (population 1,300) in northern region of Yakutia, one of the remotest inhabited areas in the northern hemisphere. More than 30 horses were killed in just four days, according to local officials, and teams of hunters were established to patrol neighbourhoods and shoot the wolves on sight. Animal experts suspicious of the claims say that wolves usually form packs of no more than 10 to
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The largest Wobble Board Ensemble was achieved by 1,207 participants from Harristown State High School who played to ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’ in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, on 22 August 2008. They played for over 6 minutes.
NTT DoCoMo (Japan) is the world’s largest wireless internet provider, with 45,687,117 subscribers to their i-mode service as of January 2006. Updated monthly at: http://www.tca.or.jp/index-e.html
The winning margin of 192 points, achieved by US gamer Patrick Scott Patterson in Texas, USA, on 24 June 2009, is the largest ever recorded on Madden NFL 09. Patrick’s impressive blowout was clocked up on Madden NFL All Play 09 on the Wii.
The largest wooden coat hanger measures 6.096 m (19 ft 12 in) long, 4.067 m (13 ft 4 in) high and 52 cm (1 ft 8 in) wide. It was created by MAWA GmbH (Germany) and presented in Frankfurt, Germany, on 12 February 2011. The hanger weighs approximately 1 ton.
The largest xun ensemble involved 11,551 participants at Jhong Jheng Stadium, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan on 18 December 2004.
The largest writing competition involved 300,874 entries and was organised by Dainik Bhaskar Group / DB Corp Ltd (India), in India, from 1 February 2012 to 4 July 2012.
The highest wrestling attendance is 190,000 at the Pyongyang Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea for the World Peace Festival on 29 April 1995.
The largest wreath measured 100.85 m (330 ft 10 in) in diameter and was created by TD Presmec Dolge Njive (Slovenia), in Volicina, Slovenia, on 1 December 2013. The wreath was made of pine, cypress and grape vine, among other components. It was then decorated with electric lights and hand-made Christmas cards from local school children. In total, the wreath’s circumference was 316.82 m (1039 ft 5 in) and weighed approximately 13.5 tonnes!