Impossibility Challenger is an event in which
amateur
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s and
professional
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s meet, and try to excel, with records and
world record
A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organizatio ...
s set up. The event takes place in different locations each year, mostly in Europe, and is organized by the
Sri Chinmoy
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007), better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964.[Zurich
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, Switzerland from 1982 to 1991. From 2002 to 2010 it took place close to Munich, later two times in New Zealand and one time in Hungary.
In 2014, it was in Leiria, Portugal and in November 2015 and 2016 it was held in
Berlin
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, Germany,
2017 in the Czech Republic,
2018 in Leiria, Portugal and the next holding is planned in the Netherlands in November 2019.
In 2020, the event was canceled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
Extract of world records
* 2002 Agim Agushi (Kosovo) is heading a football continuously for 15 km in 3:12:29 hours
* 2005 Shamita Achenbach-König sets a world record by playing Cello for 24 hours (she played over 4,000 pieces)
* 2006 Vaibhava Jewgenij Kuschnow (Austria) sets a world record by holding a headstand on a driving car for 21:20 min
* 2006 Milan Roskopf (Slovakia) juggles three 10 kg shots for 15.8 seconds
* 2008
Ashrita Furman
Ashrita Furman (born Keith Furman, September 16, 1954) is a ''Guinness World Records'' record-breaker. As of 2017, Furman has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds over 200 records, thus holding the Guinness world record ...
(US) sets a world record by run the fastest mile on stilts in 7:13 min
* 2008 Rainer Schröder (Germany) pulled a small truck of 7t for 28.15 meters in 1 minute with his teeth
* 2008 Ralf Laue (Germany) blew a regular golf ball over a distance of 3.284 meters with one breath
* 2009 Ramón Campayo (Spain) correctly memorized a 34-digit binary number in only 0.5 seconds
* 2010 Ranjit Pal (India) 255 rope skips in one minute
* 2010 Anavi Jenniver Davies (Canada) sets a world record by whistling 24 hours
* 2014 Charuhasi Eckhard Schröder (Germany) recited 3148 poems by heart in a period of 34 hours
* 2014 Albert Walter tore a
Phonebook
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with 1551 pages in 9.38 seconds
* 2015 Belachew Girma (Ethiopia) set a world record laughing non-stop for 3 hours, 35 min and 30 seconds
* 2015 Samalya Arthur Schäfer (Germany) runs the fastest mile in swim fins in 5 minutes, 33 seconds
* 2015 Karteek Clark (Scotland) told the most jokes in an hour: 587
* 2016 Abhinabha Tangermann (Netherlands) did the most one-hand-claps with one hand in a minute: 427
* 2016 Radek Rosa (Czech Republic) pulled a tractor with a weight of 10'075.8 tons for 20 meters in 2.025 minutes
References
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[nbcnews.com: {{cite news, url= http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/21/14597286-impossibility-challenger-features-events-not-to-be-tried-at-home?lite, title= Impossibility Challenger features events not to be tried at home , date=21 October 2012, publisher=NBC News , access-date=22 February 2019 ]
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[impossibilitychallenger.com : {{cite web, url=https://impossibilitychallenger.com/, title=Impossibility Challenger, access-date=2019-02-22 ]
External links
ImpossibilityChallenger.com Official Site
* Video
2009
Recurring sporting events established in 1982
Sports events founded by Sri Chinmoy
Sports festivals