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Book Overview - Guinness World Records 2024 by Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records 2024, Guinness World Records, Pan Macmillan, ISBN: 9781913484385
What’s the fastest game bird in Europe? This was the question that inspired the founding of Guinness World Records (GWR) back in 1955.
Starting with a single book published from a room above a gym, GWR has grown to become a global multi-media brand with offices worldwide.
Today, Guinness World Records 2024 (GWR2024) launches in stores and online globally.
Take a deep breath and dive into the fully updated and revised Guinness World Records 2024! This year’s edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. And with lockdowns and quarantines gradually becoming a distant memory for much of the world, the claims have been flooding in…
Plunge into the opening Blue Planet chapter, celebrating watery wonders from rivers, lakes and oceans to icescapes and hot springs, and journey back in time in the new History feature chapter. In the all-new Guinness World Records 2024 Egyptians, pirates, knights, vampires and ghosts all vie for your attention in this crazy chronicle of the past 2,000 years.
From South Africa, Maureen Marsha Fitzgerald has leapt her way into the record books as the oldest equestrian vaulter to be registered in Johannesburg at 77 years old. Maureen features in the Super Seniors chapter, showing that you are only as old as you feel. Enrico Springfield, also from Johannesburg, completed a fade haircut in a whooping 18 minutes and 57 seconds earning himself the current record for the fastest time to complete five skin fade haircuts. And finally, something for those who love winter; the coldest football (soccer) FIFA World Cup Match was held at Ellis Park Stadium (Emirates Airline Park) in Johannesburg with an on-pitch temperature of -1°C recorded at the group G match between Brazil and North Korea on the 15th of June, 2020.
These are just some of the amazing record-breakers from across the globe in this phenomenal edition. The new Guinness World Records 2024 includes nine fact-packed chapters and five special features.
