Ashrita Furman

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Ashrita Furman, born September 16, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, is the holder of 32 records in the Guinness Book of Records, including being the individual with the most current Guinness World Records [1]. Furman first entered into the Guinness book by doing 27,000 jumping jacks in 1979. Since he began in 1979, Furman has broken more than 100 Guinness records.

Furman is a graduate of Jamaica High School in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He went on to attend Columbia University but dropped out in 1974 after he had become a devout follower of Sri Chinmoy, the Indian philosopher and religious teacher.

[edit] World records

Records held by Ashrita Furman include:

• Most hopscotch games in 24 hours
• Most Jump rope in 24 hours
• Fastest 10-km sack race
• Most underwater rope jumps in one hour
• Fastest pogo stick ascent of Toronto's CN Tower
• Largest bouquet of flowers
• Greatest distance traveled on a pogo stick
• Most milk crates balanced on chin
• The longest distance walked by a person balancing a milk bottle on his/her head
• Greatest amount of beer glasses balanced on chin
• Most sit-ups performed in an hour
• The fastest mile, pushing an orange with his nose
• Longest time juggling underwater
• Longest continuous somersaulting
• Fastest time running 50 miles while juggling 3 balls
• Fastest mile on a pogo stick
• Fastest walking lunge mile
• Fastest marathon mile skipping
• Swiss ball balancing
• Fastest hula hoop racing
• Furthest distance traversed carrying the most bricks with one hand
• Fastest 100 meters on a kangaroo ball
• Fastest mile on a kangaroo ball
• Most Guinness records in different categories

[edit] References

• Official website of Ashrita Furman
• Guinness Book of World Records website
• "Scorecard/World Records: The Question Is Why? Ashrita Furman has hopped, juggled and yodeled to 57 Guinness marks." by John Walters, Sports Illustrated, November 2, 1998, pp. R16+
• "Got Milk? Hula Hoop? It's a Record!; He's Guinness's King Of Strange Feats, All for Inner Peace" by Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, June 12, 2003 [2]