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Also, records for voluntary sleep deprivation are no longer kept by Guinness World Records for fear that participants will suffer ill effects. [13] Some sources report that Gardner's record was broken a month later by Toimi Silvo, in Hamina, Finland, who stayed awake for 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, or 276 hours from February 5–15, 1964. [14]
However, Wright's friend Graham Gynn asserts that the Gardner record was the accepted record in the sleep research community. [2] Regardless, Wright's record claim was not credited by the Guinness Book of Records, since after 1990 it no longer accepted records related to sleep deprivation due to the health risks. [2] [3]
An Australian livestreamer was banned from multiple platforms for trying to stay awake for 12 days to break a Guinness World Record that is no longer being tracked due to health concerns.
The Guinness World Record stands at 449 hours (18 days, 17 hours), held by Maureen Weston of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in April 1977, in a rocking-chair marathon. [211] Claims of total sleep deprivation lasting years have been made several times, [213] [214] [215] but none are scientifically verified. [216]
Simon Elmore won the Guinness World Record for most straws in the mouth on August 6, 2009. He held 400 straws between his jaws for 10 seconds. He held 400 straws between his jaws for 10 seconds. 2.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
Former world record holder for longest time without sleep Tom Rounds (June 6, 1936 – June 1, 2014) was an American radio broadcasting executive, founder and chief executive officer of Radio Express in Burbank, California .
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.