On 20 January 2007, at St Jakob Halle, Basel, Switzerland, defending champion Nikolay Valuev (Russia) met Jameel McCline (USA) for the World Boxing Association heavyweight title. The combined weight of both fighters was 590 lb (267.6 kg), with Valuev weighing in at 322 lb (146 kg), and McCline at 268 lb (121.5 kg). Valuev won the fight when his opponent retired through injury in the Round 3.
The most people performing a headstand simultaneously is 265 at a gym festival in Menzingen, Switzerland, on 22 June 2008.
The heaviest vehicle pulled over 100 m (328 ft) by a team was a train weighing 646,350 kg (1,424,958 lbs) by a team organised by Michael Bühler (Switzerland) on 24 October 2009 in Widnau, St. Gallen, Switzerland. The train consisted of eight cars filled with gravel and weighed individually by SBB Cargo of St. Margrethen (sbbcargo.com). The team consisted of 100 members from 42 countries gathered together in an event to promote global peace and diversity. Witnesses included notary public Karin Bürki Sonderegger and town
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The highest cable car walk is 3,303 m (10,836 ft 7 in) above sea level along a 1,600 m cable car wire which was achieved by Freddy Nock (Switzerland) who managed to walk 572 m (1,876 ft 7 in) across at Silvaplana ski resort, St. Moritz, Switzerland, on 29 January 2011. Freddy Nock originally opted to beat his previous record of longest cable car walk but failed due to extreme weather conditions. He was later given a Guinness World Records title for highest cable car
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The proton beams of the Large Hadron Collider are capable of being accelerated by magnets up to within around a millionth of a percent of the speed of light. This means each proton will have around 7 TeV of energy (7 tera electron volts), equivalent to the energy used by 7 flying mosquitoes. Combined, all the protons in the active beams have the energy equivalent to 900 cars travelling at 100 kph.
The largest bottle of wine measured 3.8 m (12 ft 2 in) tall, 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in diameter and was filled with 2,019.79 litres (444.29 UK gal; 533.57 US gal) of wine. It was created by OK Watterfäscht 2011 (Switzerland) and presented and measured in Watt, Gemeinde Regensdorf, Switzerland, on 9 July 2011. The bottle was filled with “Watter-Wein (Cuvee of Pinot Noir and Dornfelder grapes)
The largest chocolate bar mosaic is 18.35 m² (197.52 ft²) made with 1,500 bars of white chocolate and red coloured white chocolate (strawberry flavoured) by employees of MySwissChocolate.ch (Switzerland) at Zurich Airport, Switzerland, on Valentine’s Day, 14 February 2011. In keeping with the celebration of the attempt date the mosaic displayed the message “I Love You” combined with a red heart and a Swiss cross. On http://www.myswisschocolate.ch/ one can create his own and preferred chocolate bar by choosing from 3 basic chocolates, 30 flavours and
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The largest chocolate firework was made by Nestlé, measuring 3 m (9.8 ft) high and 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in diameter and containing 60 kg (132 lb) of Swiss Cailler chocolates. The firework was released at the Hechtplatz, Zürich, Switzerland on 31 December 2002. The chocolate firework was lit and it exploded, releasing the 60 kg (132 lb) of chocolates.
Jean-François Vernetti (Switzerland) has collected 11,111 different ‘Do Not Disturb’ signs from hotels in 189 countries across the world since 1985.
Diana Reser (Switzerland) has a collection of 775 heart shaped motifs and items as of 4 January 2010 that she has amassed since 2006. Dr Diana Reser started collecting heart related items since she became a cardiac surgeon in 2006.