The fastest time to handcycle across Australia from Perth to Sydney in a relay is 6 days 10 hr 42 min by a team of four in the Race Across Australia (RAAUS) charity event between 16 and 23 October 2010. Thomas Bechter, Philipp Bonadimann, Jürgen Egle and Wolfgang Wimmer (all Austria) successfully covered a total of 4,031 km (2,505 mile). The athletes completed the distance with hand bicycles in an uninterruped succession of legs, during which the athletes took turns each hour. Each leg lasted
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The fastest time to hula hoop 10 km was 1 hr 27 min and 25 sec and was achieved by Boo Chan (Australia) at the Hills Sports Stadium in Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia, on 12 March 2009. Miss Chan only trained for 2 months before the attempt. During training her best time was 1 hr 30 min.
The fastest time to lay 12 m² (129.2 ft²) of carpet is 6 min 20.18 sec set by Stephen Dineley (UK) on the set of 60 Minute Makeover, ITV in Billesley, Birmingham, UK, on 7 August 2008. Laura Farmer and Michael Whitty adjudicated.
The fastest time to laminate 100m of paper is 40.53 seconds, achieved on a GBC 8556HS Cyclone laminating system by Glenn S. Koepke, Mark Elman and Tony Mertlik of GBC Commercial Laminating Solutions Group at drupa in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 2 June 2008.
The team record for making a bed with one blanket, two sheets, an undersheet, an uncased pillow, one pillowcase, one counterpane and hospital corners is 14.0 seconds, by Sister Sharon Stringer and Nurse Michelle Benkel of the Royal Masonic Hospital, London, UK, at the launch of the 1994 edition of The Guinness Book of Records, held at Canary Wharf, London, UK on 26 November 1993.
The fastest time to make 100 origami cranes is 40 minutes 35 seconds and was achieved by Yoneyama Yuichi (Japan) at Nishi Yogo special public school in Nagoya, Japan, on 30 November 2010. That’s an average of 24.35 seconds for each crane.
The fastest time to lift 5 Atlas stones and throw them over a 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) obstacle is 15.83 sec and was achieved by Travis Ortmayer (USA) on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 28 April 2011. Travis Ortmayer (born August 9, 1981) is an American Professional Strongman athlete from Cypress, Texas. Travis is the owner of Athletic Nation gym. Travis is nicknamed the Texas Stoneman due to his many world records in the Atlas Stone event.
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The fastest time to make a bunk bed is 35.57 seconds and was achieved by Paul Scott, Cassie Scott, Alana-Jo Scott, Eddy Jacobson, May Jacobson, Courtney Haynes, Beth Lovering and Frankie Bee (all UK) at Butlins, Minehead, UK, on 25 September 2010. Adjudicated by Leanne Punchard as part of GWR Live! at Butlins.
The team record for making a bed with one blanket, two sheets, an undersheet, an uncased pillow, one pillowcase, one counterpane and hospital corners is 14.0 seconds, by Sister Sharon Stringer and Nurse Michelle Benkel of the Royal Masonic Hospital, London, UK, at the launch of the 1994 edition of The Guinness Book of Records, held at Canary Wharf, London, UK on 26 November 1993.
Lawrence West (UK) cut out a boomerang from a sheet of material where the shape had already been drawn and then threw it and caught it in a time of 1 min 11 sec at the Boomerang Championships, Trefriw, North Wales on 26 August 2001. All participants are given the same sized piece of sheet material with the outline of the boomerang drawn on it. They then can use whatever tools they wish to cut it out and then run a distance of 20 m.
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