1. Jeison Orlando Rodriguez Hernandez: largest feet on a living person (pictured with his nephew)
Photograph: Gil Montano/Guinness World Records
2. Guinness World Records 2016
From the fastest tortoise in the West to the woman with 2,042 gnomes, meet
the host of glorious eccentrics who have had their peculiar talents added to
Guinness World Records
3. Li Longlong: most consecutive stairs climbed on the head
Photograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records
4. Takeru Kobayashi: most hamburgers eaten in three minutes
Photograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records
5. ‘Daring Doris’ Long, from Hayling Island, is the oldest abseiler — she took up the
sport at 85 and marked her 100th birthday by bouncing down Portsmouth’s 94m
Spinnaker Tower. This year, at 101, she broke her own record and hopes to repeat
the feat at the tower in 2016
6. Peter Glazebrook's mighty cauliflower could feed a family of four for a month, weighing in at a hefty 27.48kg, or 60lb 9.3 oz, and with a ‘leaf-span’ of 6ft
7. Andre Ortolf, 21, from Augsburg, Germany - Fastest 100m in clogsPicture: Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records
8. Mahadeo Bhujbal - Most Tennis Balls In The HandPicture: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records
9. Bob Wade, 72, from Texas, USA, who features in the Guinness World Records 2016 for creating the largest cowboy boot sculpture.
10. Kalawelo Kaiwi - Largest flesh tunnel (earlobe)Picture: Walter Succu/Guinness World Records
11. Blosom - Tallest CowPicture: Kevin Scott Ramos/Guinness World Records
12. Oliver Struempfel - Most beer steins carried over 40 mPicture: Paul Michael
Hughes/Guinness World Records
13. Kim Goodman - Farthest Eyeball Pop
Picture: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records
14. Franchesca: longest fur on a rabbit (pictured with owner Betty Chu)
Photograph: James Ellerker/Guinness World Records
15. Bharat Sinh Parmar: longest motorcycle
Photograph: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records
16. Linsey Lindberg: most telephone directories torn in one minute
Photograph: Ryan Schude/Guinness World Records
17. Marcus Daily: largest hot dog cart
Photograph: Kevin Scott Ramos/Guinness World Records
18. Joel Miggler - Most Flesh
Tunnels In The FacePicture:
Cristian Barnett/Guinness
World Records
19. Purin - Most Balls Caught By A Dog By The PawsPicture: Shinsuke Kamioka/Guinness World Records
20. Alberto Busnari: most Thomas flairs on a pommel horse in one minute.
Photograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records
21. Amateur gardener Peter
Glazebrook, 69, from Newark,
Nottinghamshire, holds the
record for the heaviest carrot
(above) which made up in
weight what it lacked in
beauty — tipping the scales
at 20lb 1 oz
22. The first people to row the navigable length of the Amazon River, Briton Anton Wright, left, and Dutch-born Mark de Rond, took just 32 days to cover 2,077 treacherous miles
in often hostile conditions
30. Takeru Kobayashi - Most hot dogs eaten in 3 minutesPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records
31. Marawa Ibrahim - Most
Hula Hoops Spun
SimultaneouslyPicture:
Paul Michael
Hughes/Guinness World
Records
32. Takahiro Ikeda, 21, from Tokyo, Japan holds the record for the most BMX 'time machine' tricks in one minute. Ikeda, a professional BMX rider, managed 83 time machines in
one minute
33. Gerhard Donie - Most Human Targets Hit With PlungersPicture: Paul Michael Hughes/GWR
34. John Evans, 70, faces little competition in the 33 weight-bearing categories for which he repeatedly sets records. Honoured here for ‘heaviest car balanced on the head’ (a
gutted 352 lb Mini for 33 seconds), the one-eyed diabetic — who avoids the gym —explains: ‘I’ve got strong legs and a strong neck’
35. Tameru Zegeye: fastest 100m on crutches
Photograph: Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records
36. Vijay Kumar: most teeth in a mouth
Photograph: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records
37. Sun Mingming and Xu Yan:
tallest married couple
Photograph: Paul Michael
Hughes/Guinness World
Records
38. Dominic Lacasse: most chinups in the human flag position
Photograph: Paul Michael Hughes/Guinness World Records
39. Andre Ortolf, 21, from Augsburg, Germany, features in the 2016 edition for three world records including the fastest 100m in clogs (16.27 seconds), fastest 100m wearing ski
boots (17.65 seconds) and farthest distance to blow a pea (7.51 m (24 ft 7.66 in)
