Ashrita Furman

Ashrita Furman ( born September 16, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City as Keith Furman ) is an American record breaker. He has 493 Guinness world records in all continents, of which 170 are still valid, including the record for the most simultaneously held the Guinness World Records about an individual ( at the time of recognition 131). Because he has set records in unrelated categories, he also calls himself Mr. Versatility (English " versatility " - versatility ).

Life

Ashrita Furman grew up as the son of a Jewish lawyer, and was fascinated as a child by the Guinness Book, but never thought he could break a record himself, as he was very unsportsmanlike.

As a teenager he became interested in spirituality and studied Eastern philosophy and yoga. Later he took part in a meditation by Sri Chinmoy, who encouraged him in 1978 to join a 24-hour bike race in Central Park in New York City, where he ( 652 km ) was third with 405 miles. So he got more confident and decided to break records. After a few failed attempts he ever thought he should train for these records to you. His first record he set with 27 000 jumping jacks in August 1979.

Sri Chinmoy gave him the Sanskrit name Ashrita - " protected by God ".

On 31 August 2003, he presented with his 81st world record for the most world records and surpassed so Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev. He ran in 5 hours 55 minutes and 13 seconds the fastest marathon ( 26.2 miles ) with " rope jumping without a rope ."

On 14 April 2009 he held 100 Guinness world records simultaneously. In his 100th world record he wore and over 100 members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, the poem "Precious " by Sri Chinmoy in 111 languages ​​, including Afrikaans, Dzongkha, Kabyle and Picard.

He also conducts a business for healthy food.

" I'm trying to show others did our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe in ourselves. "

" I try to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can really believe in us. "

Records (excerpt)

Still valid records are colored green.

Media

  • Guinness Book of World Records 2013. Bibliographical Institute GmbH, ISBN 978-3-411-81201-1, pp. 280 f
  • Record -breaking people 2012th New York PowerKids Press, ISBN 978-1-4488-5293-2, pp. 32 f
  • Breaking and enter starting in 2012. Virgil Films New York, OCLC 817,976,378th
  • The Record Breaker, 2012. Documentary by Brian McGinn
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