Ashrita Furman
Ashrita Furman (* 16th September 1954 in Brooklyn , New York City as Keith Furman ) is an American record breaker. He has set over 600 Guinness World Records, of which over 200 are still valid, making him the person who holds the most Guinness World Records. Since he has set records in unrelated categories, he is also called Mr. Versatility (English "versatility" - versatility).
Life
Ashrita Furman grew up the son of a Jewish lawyer and was fascinated by the Guinness Book as a child, but never thought that he could break a record himself as he was very unsportsmanlike.
As a teenager he became interested in spirituality and studied Eastern philosophy and yoga . He later attended a meditation of Sri Chinmoy some who encouraged him in 1978, in a 24-hour bike race in Central Park of New York City to participate, where he was (652 km) Third 405 miles. So he got more self-confident and decided to break records. After a couple of failed record attempts, he thought he should maybe train for those records . He set his first record in August 1979 with 27,000 jumping jacks.
Sri Chinmoy gave him the Sanskrit name Ashrita - "protected by God".
On August 31, 2003, he set the most world records with his 81st world record, surpassing Vasily Ivanovich Alexejew . He ran the fastest marathon (26.2 miles) with "rope jumps without rope" in 5 hours 55 minutes and 13 seconds.
On April 14, 2009 he held 100 Guinness world records at the same time. On his 100th world record, he and over 100 members of the Sri Chinmoy Center recited the poem "Precious" by Sri Chinmoy in 111 languages, including Afrikaans , Dzongkha , Kabyle and Picardy .
He also runs a healthy food business.
"I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves."
"I try to show others that our human capabilities are unlimited if we can really believe in ourselves."
Records (extract)
Records that are still valid are marked in green. A record is not valid because it was broken by Ashrita or others, the category is no longer held, or the performance was subsequently revoked.
number | category | record | date | place |
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1 | Most jumping jacks | 27,000 | Aug 1979 | New York City , New York |
3 | Longest hand clapping | 50 h 17 min | Aug 10, 1981 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
10 | Longest Forward Rolling Distance Most consecutive forward rolls |
12 mi 390 yd 8,341 (in 10 h 30 min) |
Apr 30, 1986 | Lexington to Charleston , Massachusetts |
24 | Longest yodelling | 27 h | May 21, 1989 | San Francisco , California |
54 | Most hopscotch games in 24 hours | 434 | Jan. 12, 1998 | Cancun , Mexico |
56 | Longest distance with a milk bottle on your head | ? 80.95 mi / 80.96 mi | Apr 22, 1998 | New York City , New York |
60 | Fastest jump up of the CN Tower | 57 min 51 s | July 23, 1999 | Toronto , Canada |
63 | Fastest mile with forward rolling | 19 min 11 s | Nov 25, 2000 | Queens , New York City , New York |
68 | Fastest 10-kilometer sack race | 1 h 22 min 2 s | ? | 23 Aug 2001/23 Apr 2001Montauk , New York |
69 | Most underwater rope jumps in an hour | 900 | 23 Aug 2001 | Montauk , New York |
81 | Fastest marathon with jumping rope without rope | 5 h 55 min 13 s | Aug 31, 2003 | Vancouver Island , British Columbia , Canada |
84 | Fastest mile with a milk bottle on your head | 7 min 47 s | Feb 12, 2004 | Yogyakarta , Indonesia |
91 | Fastest 100 meters on a jumping ball (male, general) | 30.2 s | Nov 16, 2004 | new York |
92 | Fastest 8-kilometer stilt run | 39 min 56 s | Dec 17, 2004 | Xiamen , People's Republic of China |
100 | Largest hula hoop (at least three turns) | 16 ft in diameter | 2005 | London , England |
118 | Fastest 10 kilometers with a hula hoop (male, general) | 1 h 25 min 9 s | June 12, 2006 | Huntington , New York |
122 | Fastest mile on a pogo ball | 43 min 9 s | July 11, 2006 | Fujinomiya , Japan |
135 | Most of the cigar boxes balanced on the chin | 223 | New York City , New York | |
137 | Longest spinning top of a top | 7 h 1 m 14 s | Nov 18, 2006 | Brooklyn , New York City , New York |
141 | Most forward rolling in an hour | 1,330 | Jan. 8, 2007 | Kaliakra , Bulgaria |
148 | Fastest egg run mile with a spoon in your mouth | 9 min 29 s | ? | May 2007 / April 27, 2007Jamaica , New York City , New York |
151 | Fastest sack hopping mile | 16 min 41 s | May 19, 2007 | Baruun Salaa , Mongolia |
161 | Longest underwater hula hooping | 2 min 38 s | Aug 1, 2007 | East Meadow , New York |
162 | Longest underwater pogo stick jumping | 1,680 ft | Aug 1, 2007 | East Meadow , New York |
166 | Most of the pint glasses balanced on the chin | 81 | Aug 12, 2007 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
170 | Fastest mile on a pogo stick while juggling three balls | 23 min 28 s | 26 Sep 2007 | Brooklyn , New York City , New York |
172 | Fastest pushing an orange over a mile with your nose | 22 min 41 s | Nov 2, 2007 | Valley Stream , New York |
174 | Fastest 10-meter frog jumping | 8.22 s | Nov 7, 2007 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
180 | Fastest flea play mile | 23 min 22 s | Dec 17, 2007 | Punta Cana , Dominican Republic |
197 | Fastest mile on jump stilts | 7 min 13 s | 30th Mar 2008 | Dachau , Germany |
200 | Most catches hanging upside down when juggling three balls | 601 | May 2008 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
203 | Most pogo stick rope jumps in one minute (male, general) | 178 | May 18, 2008 | Queens , New York City , New York |
206 | Longest stretch with a pool cue on your chin | 5,472 ft 9 in | July 6, 2008 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
211 | Fastest mile on stilts | 12 min 23 s | Aug 29, 2008 | Flushing , Queens , New York City , New York |
218 | Most rope jumps on jump stilts in one minute | 145 | Nov 13, 2008 | Orlando , Florida |
222 | Fastest peeling and eating of a kiwi fruit | 5.35 s | Dec 10, 2008 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
236 | Poem performed in most languages | Precious in 111 languages | Apr. 2009 | new York |
238 | Fastest mile with a baseball bat on one finger | 7 min 5 s | June 20, 2009 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
241 | Fastest mile with a pool cue on one finger | 6 min 55 s | July 19, 2009 | Queens , New York City , New York |
242 | Fastest mile with a book on your head | 8 min 27 s | July 29, 2009 | Queens , New York City , New York |
249 | Fastest 10 meters with a pool cue on the chin | 3.02 s | Aug 30, 2009 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
259 | Most pancakes caught in a minute | 46 (cast by Bipin Larkin) | 26 Sep 2009 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
270 | Most of the stairs climbed in a minute with books on my head | 122 | Oct 25, 2009 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
273 | Longest balance of a pool cue on one finger | 4 h 7 min | Nov 18, 2009 | Jamaica , New York City , New York |
275 | Most catches hanging upside down when juggling three balls | 781 | Nov 2009 | new York |
279 | Most heaven and hell games in an hour | 33 | Dec 25, 2009 | New York City , New York |
281 | Longest control of a golf ball with a club | 1 h 20 min 42 s | Jan. 7, 2010 | New York City , New York |
288 | Longest underwater juggling ("gluggling") with three objects | 1 h 19 min 58 s | March 2010 | new York |
300 | Most raw eggs caught in a minute | 75 (thrown by Bipin Larkin) | May 2010 | Budapest , Hungary |
316 | Largest hula hoop (at least three turns) | 16 ft 6.7 in | Sep 9 2010 | new York |
333 | Longest stand on a 75-centimeter exercise ball | 5 h 7 min 6 s | Dec 31, 2010 | new York |
345 | Fastest 100-meter egg run | 19.39 s | Feb. 24, 2011 | Queens , New York |
356 | Longest standing on a balance board | 1 h 57 min | Apr. 2011 | new York |
367 | Most raw eggs caught in a minute | 82 (cast by Bipin Larkin) | July 2011 | Vermont |
403 | Fastest mile with a hula hoop and a milk bottle on your head | 13 min 37.35 s | March 2012 | new York |
410 | Fastest time to balance a dozen eggs | 1 min 15.72 s | Apr. 2012 | new York |
433 | Biggest tennis racket | 50 ft 3.07 in long, 16 ft 8.6 in wide | Aug 2012 | new York |
See also
media
- literature
- Guinness World Records Book 2011 . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, ISBN 978-3-411-14171-5 , p. 80, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 129, 131, 138 .
- Guinness World Records Book 2012 . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, ISBN 978-3-411-80829-8 , p. 99, 101, 102, 106, 135, 249 .
- Record-breaking people 2012 . New York PowerKids Press, ISBN 978-1-4488-5293-2 , pp. 32 .
- Guinness World Records Book 2013 . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, ISBN 978-3-411-81201-1 , p. 88, 89, 93, 227, 275 .
- Guinness World Records Book 2014 . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, ISBN 978-3-411-81320-9 , p. 96, 100 .
- Guinness World Records Book 2015 . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, ISBN 978-3-455-50345-6 , p. 88-89 .
- Movie
- Breaking and Entering , Eng. 2010, New York Virgil Films, OCLC 817976378, 88 minutes
- The Record Breaker , Eng. 2012. Documentary by Brian McGinn
- The world record holder , November 13, 2014, documentation by Pro Sieben / Galileo
Web links
- Official website
- Ashrita Furman on Guinness Records and meditation with German translation
- Ashrita Furman Interview , Eng.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ashrita Furman on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 31, 2012 .
- ^ Wit / dpa: World record in New York: The giant incense stick , In: Spiegel Online , August 28, 2013, accessed on January 29, 2015.
- ↑ youtube.com: Man With The Most Guinness World Records - Record Holder Profile , In: Guinness World Records , June 27, 2012, Retrieved April 6, 2018.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Guinness World Records' most prolific record-breaker , In: Guinness World Records , June 27, 2012, accessed April 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b Gisela Ostwald: Ashrita Furman, the man with the 424 world records , In: Die Welt , August 29, 2012.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Guinness World Records 2015 / Pages Eng: 88-89; DE: 88-89 on September 10, 2014, Retrieved October 13, 2014.
- ↑ a b dpa: Giant bat: Champion of the records is full of ideas , In: Focus Online , August 28, 2008, accessed on February 2, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e Olaf Kuchenbecker: Guinness Book of Records 2011 , Bibliographisches Institut & Brockhaus, ISBN 978-3411141715 , pp. 84–85
- ↑ a b Jilian Mincer: The Ultimate Guinness Record Is the Record for Records , In: The Wall Street Journal , November 18, 2010, accessed January 27, 2015.
- ↑ a b GMT: World champion record breaker Ashrita Furman aims to set another best in Brazil , In: The Telegraph , March 12, 2012, accessed January 27, 2015.
- ↑ han / dpa: Der Welt-Rekord-Meister , In: Spiegel Online , April 16, 2009, accessed on January 27, 2015.
- ↑ Corey Kilgannon: For a Record Seeker, No Idle Day , In: The New York Times , July 3, 2009, accessed January 27, 2015.
- ↑ a b c All Records ( Memento from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), In: ashrita.com February 12, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most consecutive forward rolls , April 30, 1986, accessed January 20, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most hopscotch games in 24 hrs , January 1, 1998, accessed on January 21, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Greatest distance walked with a milk bottle balanced on the head , April 23, 1998, accessed January 22, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Forward rolls, Mile (Gym) , November 25, 2000, accessed January 22, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Sack race - fastest 10km , April 23, 2001, accessed January 22, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest time to run a mile while balancing a milk bottle on the head , February 12, 2004, accessed January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest 100 m on a space hopper - male , November 16, 2004, accessed January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest stilt walker - 8km , December 17, 2004, accessed January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest time to hula hoop 10 km (male) , June 12, 2006, accessed on January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest mile jumping on a pogo ball , July 11, 2006, accessed January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most cigar boxes balanced on chin ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 12, 2006. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Spinning top-duration , November 18, 2006, accessed on January 23, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest mile carrying an egg on a spoon in the mouth , April 27, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Longest time to hula hoop underwater , August 1, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Farthest distance jumped underwater on pogo stick , August 1, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most pint glasses balanced on the chin , August 12, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest mile on pogo stick while juggling three balls , September 26, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest 10 meters frog jumping , November 7, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Tiddlywinks - fastest mile (Individual) , December 17, 2007, accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest mile on spring loaded stilts , March 30, 2008, accessed January 25, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most skips on a pogo stick in one minute (male) , May 18, 2008, accessed January 25, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest stilt walker - mile , 29. August 2008, Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest time to peel and eat a kiwi fruit , November 13, 2008, accessed January 25, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Fastest mile balancing a book on head , July 29, 2009, accessed January 25, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most pancakes thrown and caught in one minute - team of two , September 26, 2009, accessed January 25, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most stairs climbed whilst balancing books on the head in one minute , October 25, 2009, accessed January 26, 2015.
- ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Most games of hopscotch played in one hour , December 25, 2009, accessed January 26, 2015.
- ↑ Time Online: network movie of the week: "The Record Breaker" , Eike cooling, November 17, 2013, Accessed November 17, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Furman, Ashrita |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Furman, Keith (maiden name); Mr. Versatility (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American record breaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City , New York |