The Big Apple is home to 436 Guinness World Record holders, nearly 8% of all at risk in the country and second only to California’s 615, according to the 70th edition of Guinness World Records.
Here are four of the New Yorkers whose courage and determination helped them achieve immortality.
Miki Sudo – Most Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Wins (Female), (10); Most hot dogs eaten in competition (female), (51); Most hot dogs eaten in one minute, (6); Fastest Burrito Eating Time, (31.47) seconds; Most jellies are eaten with a fork in 30 seconds, (1.30 kilograms)
The Upper East Side native entered her first Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2014 and has taken first place every year since — barring one summer she left while pregnant.
In July, she set the world records for most hot dogs eaten in a Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest by a female at 51 1/2 years old, and most Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest wins by a female at 10 years old.
For her achievement, Sudo, 39, received a certificate from Guinness and bragging rights.
“Honestly, the most fun after Nathan is just seeing the footage,” she told The Post. “Because it’s hard to live it when you’re up there.”
It is ranked as no. 1 female competitive eater with Major League Eating, with feats like devouring 16.5 quarts of ice cream in six minutes, 170 wings in 12 minutes and 96 tacos in 10 minutes.
Sudo, who grew up in Tokyo, “got into” competitive eating in 2011 as a college student, when she tossed a 12-pound bowl of pho — full of a gallon of broth, two pounds of noodles and two pounds of meat — at the a restaurant in Las Vegas.
She is studying to become a dental hygienist. She is married to Nick Wehry, No. 6 Male Competitive Eaters with Major League Eating.
Inga Simning- Most push-ups in one minute (female), (76); most pull-ups completed in one minute (female), (39); most pull-ups with a 20-pound bag (women), (21)
The first record set by the mother of two from Pittsford, NY, for most withdrawals in one minute, came via social media.
“I just saw it pop up on my Facebook feed, the previous record. I think she did 36 pull-ups and at that time, I could do 22,” Simning, 38, said.
The speech pathologist, who grew up in Omaha, NE, was determined to break it.
“I said, ‘It’s a minute record, so I’m going to do one minute a day and see where it takes me.’ Within a few months I was doing 30.”
After completing the pull-up world record, in June 2022, she ran into the push-up world record, which was 70 in one minute.
“I’ve never done a push-up before, but to see where I was, I tried and I was 60.”
Simning is already preparing to set her next record – for the fastest marathon in a four-person suit.
“It will probably be a caterpillar. That’s what people have done in the past because it gives you a little more flexibility.”
Austin Head – Most shots in an hour (opposite), (2825); farthest distance lunged in one hour (2.14 miles)
The Brooklyn fitness trainer, who works for Life Time Health Clubs, said the idea of setting that particular record was a no-brainer.
“I was teaching over 30 hours a week and doing so many lunges,” said Head, 31, a native of Kilgore, TX.
While he was researching world records, he found a record category on the Guinness website that no one had ever broken – the farthest distance lunged in one hour, which the record book set at a minimum of 1.99 miles.
“Of my two world records, this one was the hardest. My first workout was terrible. I could barely make a mile in an hour.
In March, while training for that record, he managed to break another record – for most strokes in an hour.
“My last run was almost 500 over the current world record,” he said.
Twelve days later, he set out to break the record he originally had in mind, for the furthest distance lunged in one hour.
About 70 people, including his mother and grandmother, came out to witness the feat, which he launched at Jane’s Carousel in Dumbo, where he lives.
Eric Jones – Heaviest Lantern, (2749 lbs); and the largest circumference, (21’1″)
The West Clarksville, NY sculptor’s path to his two world records came last year after he contacted Travis Gienger, the Minnesota man who grew the world’s largest pumpkin.
“I asked if I could carve it and raise some money for a charity for veterans with PTSD. I carved about 180 degrees around it and made three service members, a female, male and disabled veteran and a bald eagle,” said Jones, 49, who studied art and design at Alfred University.
“A 200-pound piece fell off the back of it during shipping, and I used it to carve out the service dog and put it on the pumpkin.”
Jones always had a passion for carving pumpkins, but it really took off after he gave one of his creations to Al Roker on the “Today” show in 2017, which led to his appearance on the Food Network series “Halloween Wars.” .
When pumpkin season is over, Jones does snow sculpting and in the summer, sand sculpting. His custom pieces start at $1,500 and his star-studded clientele includes professional athletes like Jay Cutler and Charles Barkley.
The 9-foot-tall snow sculpture he made with Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs got the most attention.
“They were the ones who did their famous back-slapping squeeze and it got about 3 million shares on Facebook.”
Although he is proud of his world records, Jones is even more proud of the non-profit organization he created, Sculpting for Smiles, where he makes free sculptures for children who are sick or disabled.
“There’s a young girl in a hospital in Buffalo who was hit by a car. She was paralyzed and hadn’t smiled in weeks. “She had just gotten this German Shepherd puppy and she couldn’t enjoy it because she was in the hospital,” he said.
“So I carved a nine-foot tall German shepherd out of snow in a hospital parking lot. They pushed it up to the window and showed it and she got a big smile on her face.”
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