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 Data 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 lined the space 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 Data (@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 are at the very least seven centimetres excessive and not more than 1.5 cm vast 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 Data 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 effectively for me.”
The runner, who has Sort 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 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)
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)
