Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Kukkiwon, World Headquarters of Taekwondo, in Seoul, South Korea, set a record of organising a Taekwondo display with maximum participants. A total of  12,263 participants took part in the event held on March 25, 2023, as confirmed on April 18, 2023.

Sankalp Jain (born on August 3, 1988) of Delhi, India, set a record for completing long distance runs in the maximum number of towns and cities. He completed long distance runs (comprising half marathons, full marathons, 50 km and 40 km) at 50 cities including Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Vadodara, Bengaluru, Satara, Hyderabad, Chennai and Lucknow among other towns and cities from November 29, 2015 to October 16, 2022, as confirmed on February 24, 2023.

The School of Hospitality, GNA University, Phagwara, Punjab, India set the record for preparing and displaying the maximum flavours of Virgin Mojito in 45 minutes. A total of 2100 virgin Mojitos were prepared by a group of 30 Students led by the Faculty Members Team of the School of Hospitality and displayed staggering varieties of Virgin Mojito in 45 minutes at the GNA University, Phagwara, Punjab on April 20, 2023.

Jiana Darshan (born on December 24, 2014) of Maharashtra, India, set a record for being the fastest to perform four activities simultaneously. She performed (with two hula hoops) 210 hula hoop spins around the waist, 210 hula hoop spins switching between both wrists, holding a spoon along with lemon in her mouth, while simultaneously standing on two steel tumblers in 2 minutes and 16 seconds at the age of 8 years, 2 months and 22 days, as confirmed on March 24, 2023.

Peter Wachtel and students of Adolfo Camarillo High School of California, USA, set a record of making the longest charcuterie board. A total of 50 students and their teacher took 100 hours to create the board measuring 62.38 m (204 ft 7.8 in) over a period of three months in the school’s wood shop, as confirmed on April18, 2023.

Geologists Manas Banerjee and Richard Kapeta, of Zambia, along with their team unearthed the largest uncut emerald at the Kagem mine in Copperbelt, Zambia. The diamond weighs 7,525 carats (1.505 kg / 3 lbs and 5.09 oz) and is named Chipembele, meaning “Rhino” in the local indigenous dialect, as confirmed on April 17, 2023.

Rotary Club of Mehsana Gujarat, India set the record for maximum speakers participating in a speech marathon about environmental conservation at the Rotary Bhawan, Mehsana, Gujarat, India on April 16, 2023. A total of 317 participants of age groups between 6 years till 84 years spoke for 3 minutes each in Gujarati, Hindi and English to create awareness about the importance of environmental conservation. The speech marathon commenced at 7.00am and ended at 10.00pm.

Dayanand College of Ajmer Rajasthan, India set a record for painting Indian Folk Arts on the maximum canvas bags in a single day. A team of 20 students along with three faculty members, principal and vice principal of the college started painting the Indian folk arts as Pithora, Madhubani, Warli, Madana, Sanjhi, Gond, etc on 401 canvas bags as confirmed on April 15,2023.

The Associação Visite Pomerode of Santa Catarina, Brazil, unveiled the largest Easter egg. The egg measured 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in) in height and 10.88 m (35 ft 8 in) in diameter.  It is bigger than three giraffes standing on top of each other as confirmed on April 17, 2023.

LUKAS TM of Ukraine, set a record for making the world’s largest brittle candy “Sharzan”. The candy measuring length 2.01 m, width 0.75 m and height 0.65 m with a weight of 1 ton, was presented in a live concert “Ukraine got talent” aired on STB TV channel, as confirmed on April 14, 2023.