Spain’s Christian Roberto López Rodriguez has added to his rising record of world information by changing into the quickest individual to run 100 metres in a pair of stilettos, masking the gap in an astounding 12.82 seconds. Guinness World Information has introduced it has licensed the 34-year-old’s high-heeled feat because the quickest ever recorded, which Rodriguez ran in Cabañas de la Sagra, Spain, on Feb. 19. Rodriguez breaks the report beforehand held by Germany’s André Ortolf, who in 2019 coated the gap in 14.02 seconds.
New report: Quickest 100 metres run in excessive heels (male) – 12.82 seconds by Christian Roberto López Rodríguez 🇪🇸
It’s solely 3 seconds off Usain Bolt’s 100 metre world report! 👠 pic.twitter.com/sScdaWBfUp
— Guinness World Information (@GWR) June 26, 2023
For these vying to face above the competitors on this occasion, not simply any pair of heels will do. To qualify for the world report, runners should put on stilettos which can be not less than seven centimetres excessive and not more than 1.5 cm extensive on the tip. Platforms, for instance, can be a lot too chunky to earn a runner a spot on the rostrum on this area of interest occasion.
Rodriguez instructed Guinness World Information that getting ready for his newest world-record try was “very exhaustive and particular. I discover it very difficult to have the ability to run in excessive heels at excessive pace. In Spain there are races like this, and so they have all the time gone effectively for me.”
The runner, who has Kind 1 diabetes, stated his motivation to interrupt the report was to point out different diabetics that they “can do as a lot or extra issues than individuals with out diabetes.”
Rodriguez’s different information
Rodriguez’s newest accomplishment is the quickest of greater than a dozen completely different information he holds within the 100m. The opposite information embody masking 100 m whereas:
blindfolded (12.45 seconds)
carrying clogs (12.58 seconds)
working backwards (13.17 seconds)
balancing a baseball bat on a finger (13.83 seconds)
balancing a guitar on a finger: (14.31 seconds)
carrying a ready service tray (14.51 seconds)
balancing a desk tennis ball on a bat (14.69 seconds)
juggling three objects while blindfolded (15.28 seconds)
balancing a pool cue on a finger (15.32 seconds)
working backwards carrying a 60-pound (27.2-kg) pack (23.45 seconds)
working backwards on a single leg (24.76 seconds)
working in a sack (25.96 seconds)
