The highest score for the Guinness World Records target football challenge is 90 points by Dogan Can (Germany) at the Jetix Kids Cup tournament at the Olympic Stadium, Munich, Germany on 5 July 2006 Guinness team invigilating at event.
The heaviest barbell lifted by a pair weighed 333.3 kg (734.8 lb) lifted by Matthias Steiner and Almir Velagic (both Germany) at the “Ball des Sports” event in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 5 February 2011. Each competitor has participated for Germany in the Olympics, with Steiner winning gold in the +105 kg event in 2008. The duo was required to each lift the bar simultaneously above their heads to the point of locking the arms.
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).
The heaviest train carriage hauled by model locomotives weighed 47 tonnes (103,617 lb). The motive power for the carriage was provided by 200 electric model locomotives Märklin BR 143, which, moving along 50 parallel rail tracks, hauled the carriage for 10 m (32 ft 9 in), at the DB-Gelände in Munich, Germany, on 21 February 2007.
The heaviest weight lifted with glue is 16.09 tonnes (35,472 lb 6.4 oz), which was achieved by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft, aka the German Aerospace Center (Germany) at their facility in Cologne, Germany, on 22 September 2013. The glue was applied to an area of just 39.6 cm².
The highest beer keg toss by a woman is 3.5 metres (11 ft 5 in) and was achieved by Michaela Pennekamp (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland in Berlin, Germany, on 2 April 2011. The beer keg weighed 12.3 kg as requested in the guidelines.
The record for the highest bungee jump (hands) from a crane is 50m and was achieved by Michael Mann (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records: Die größten Weltrekorde (RTL, Germany) in Cologne, Germany on 09 September 2006.
The highest ‘cold water’ geyser is the Geysir Andernach, which typically blows water to heights of 30-60 m (98-196 ft), and is located in Andernach, Germany. Unlike naturally-occurring hot water geysers, so-called ‘cold-water’ geysers are formed by cold ground water dissolving large amounts of carbon dioxide (released through cracks from the Earth’s upper mantle) and effectively ‘charging’ the water (similar to a soda bottle); this charged underground water then erupts from a drilled well. The Andernach well is 350 m (1,148 ft) deep and was
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The highest pinfall in ninepin bowling in 24 hours by a team was 33,792 by members of Karibikkegler Wolfsburg (Germany), including Jens Heinrich, Simone Heinrich, Frank Drefs, Ursula Eggerstedt, Karsten Grabis, Susanne Grocholewski, Hans-Jorg Meyer, Maren Meyer, Dirk Paare, Bjorn Prosch, Jorg Reitmeier, and Jorg Stabel (all Germany) at Kreuzheider Krug in Wolfsburg, Germany, from 30 April to 1 May 2011. The team bowled 5,815 throws for an average of 5.8 pins knocked down per roll.
The highest scoring game in World Bowl history is 65 points when the Hamburg Sea Devils defeated the Frankfurt Galaxy, 37-28 in World Bowl XV at Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany, on 23 June 2007. This NFL Europe championship game marked the final contest in the league’s history, and was the Galaxy’s 8th appearance in the World Bowl, extending their record.