Dominic Swaffer of Maidstone, Kent, UK, did 84 baranis in one minute using a standard trampoline on the set of the television programme Guinness World Records, London on 25 May 1999. A barani is a somersault with a half twist. He beat his existing record of 80, set on Linford’s Records Breakers in December 1998.
The greatest distance run by a team of twelve in 48 hours on a treadmill is 868.64 km (539.86 miles) and was set by Porsche Human Performance (UK) at Goodwood Speed Festival, in Goodwood, Chichester, UK, from 3 to 5 July 2009. The team of twelve was made up by: [1] Eliot Challifour, [2] Doug Hall, [3] Steve Osborne, [4] Nigel Leighton, [5] Matt Cook, [6] Mitch Barclay, [7] Sean Frost, [8] Daniel Corner, [9] Nigel Marley, [10] Adam Holland, [11] Paul Fernandez, [12] Matt
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Simon Whitelock (UK) has constructed a motorcycle with a 2-stroke engine that has 48 cylinders and a capacity of 4200 cc (256 cu in). It consists of 16 Kawasaki KH250 3-cylinder engines arranged in six banks of eight and is completely road-legal. The engine is so large it has a complete single-cylinder 2-stroke engine to serve as a starter motor.
Sam Wakeling (UK) covered 169.90 km (105.57 miles) on a unicycle without his feet touching the ground on 29 September 2007 in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Mr. Wakeling achieved this record whilst completing the record for the longest distance convered on a unicycle in 24 hours.
The youngest scorer in the English Premiership is James Vaughan at 16 years 271 days, for Everton against Crystal Palace on 10 April 2005.
McFly (UK) are the youngest group to top the UK charts with two albums. They completed the double on 10 September 2005 with ‘Wonderland’.
The youngest Ocean Four to row any ocean is the crew of All Relative, Justin Adkin (UK, b.28 May 1979), James Green (UK, b. 16 February 1981), Robert Adkin (UK, b. 4 June 1982) and Martin Adkin (UK, b. 7 January 1986), who rowed the Atlantic East to West between 30 November 2005 – 8 January 2006, with the combined age of 94 years 249 days at the start.
The youngest female artist to have a No.1 album on the UK chart is Joss Stone (UK) with her second album ‘Mind, Body & Soul’ on 9 October 2004, aged 17 and 181 days.
The youngest scorer of a treble at women’s senior level is Amy Wilding (b. 22 August 1987) aged 15 years 220 days when she scored three for Camberley Town Ladies against CTC Ladies in Croydon, Surrey, UK, on 30 March 2003. During the Russell Cup an FA open age match, Wilding netted on 14, 41 and 79 minutes.
The youngest football referee (female) was Daisy Goldsmith (UK) who received her level nine qualifications from The Football Association on her 14th birthday, in Puriton, UK, on 10 March 2010. Goldsmith joined a reported rank of 25,502 qualified referees in the nation at the time of her appointment, only 407 of whom were female. In her first match as a qualified FA referee, Goldsmith called a penalty against her the team from her own school, Chilton Trinity.