Spain’s Christian Roberto López Rodriguez has added to his rising listing of world data by turning into the quickest individual to run 100 metres in a pair of stilettos, masking the space 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 document beforehand held by Germany’s André Ortolf, who in 2019 lined the space in 14.02 seconds.
New document: 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 document! 👠 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 document, runners should put on stilettos which can be a minimum of seven centimetres excessive and not more than 1.5 cm huge on the tip. Platforms, for instance, could 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 making 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, they usually have all the time gone properly for me.”
The runner, who has Sort 1 diabetes, mentioned his motivation to interrupt the document was to point out different diabetics that they “can do as a lot or extra issues than individuals with out diabetes.”
Rodriguez’s different data
Rodriguez’s newest accomplishment is the quickest of greater than a dozen completely different data he holds within the 100m. The opposite data embody masking 100 m whereas:
blindfolded (12.45 seconds)
carrying clogs (12.58 seconds)
operating 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)
operating backwards carrying a 60-pound (27.2-kg) pack (23.45 seconds)
operating backwards on a single leg (24.76 seconds)
operating in a sack (25.96 seconds)
