Fastest walk 10,000 metres (female)
10,000 m 41:56.23 Nadezhda Ryashkina (USSR) Seattle, Washington, USA 24 July 1990
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Fastest VW Beetle engine swap
Stephen Muller, Adrian Muller, Julian Price-Jones and Jeremy Vant Spyker (all Australia) managed a time of 1 minute and 6 seconds for the fastest VW Engine exchange on the set of Guinness World Records at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 27 August 2005. The engine was manually removed from a 1976 VW Beetle, placed 1 meter away from the car and then manually put back into the car. Finally the car was driven 5 metres.
Fastest walk 30,000 metres (male)
30,000 m walk 2:01:44.1 Maurizio Damilano (Italy) Cuneo, Italy 3 October 1992
Fastest walk 3,000 metres (female) (indoors)
3,000 m 11:40.33 Claudia Stef (née Iovan) (Romania) Bucharest, Romania 30 January 1999
Fastest walk 50,000 metres (male)
The fastest walk 50,000 metres (male) was 3 hr 35 min 27.2 sec by Yohann Diniz (France) in Reims, France, on 12 March 2011.
Fastest wheelchair marathon (T52)
At the 2008 Games in Beijing, China, Austrian wheelchair athlete Thomas Geierspichler won gold in the men’s T52-class marathon (no lower limb function), setting a world-record time of 1 hr 40 min 7 sec on 17 September 2008.
Fastest wedding chapel
The Best Man achieved a speed of 99 km/h (62 mi/h) in Shelbyville, Illinois, USA, on 30 September 2010.
Fastest water jet powered car
The fastest speed in a water jet powered car is 26.8 km/h (16.65 mi/h) and was achieved by Jason Bradbury (UK) on the set of The Gadget Show at Wattisham Airfield, Ipswich, UK, on 15 March 2010. The speed is the average speed of two runs in opposite directions. The speed was measured each time by independent professionals with a radar gun. The car had a pressurized tank containing 70 litres (15.4 gal) of water and 90 litres (19.8 gal) of air plus two auxillary Continue reading →
Fastest waste container
The fastest waste container – built using a modified 2 litre ( .43 gal ) Turbo Subaru Impreza Type R Rally Car around an 8 yd ( 7.3 m ) builders skip – set a landspeed record of 151.15 Km/h (93.92 mph), on the .25 mile (.40 km) dragster track at the Santa Pod Raceway in Northants, UK, on 3 November 2007.
Fastest win of the Tour du Lac Leman
The fastest time to complete the Tour du Léman race is 11 hr 55 min 19 sec, achieved by Matthias Auer, Olaf Behrend, Jochen Domscheit, Christian Klandt and Markus Neuman (all Germany), who won the men’s coxed fours category in the 2007 race. The annual Tour du Léman à l’Aviron is the longest rowing race in the world, covering 160 km (99 mi) around the circumference of Lake Léman in Switzerland – equivalent to crossing the sea between England and France five times without a Continue reading →