World record: at least 941 bungee jumps in 24 hours
A 41-year-old New Zealander has reportedly thrown himself off a bridge 941 times in 24 hours in a bid to regain his world champion title for the most bungee jumps in one day, which was stolen from him last year.
“It definitely wasn’t easy going into this, I knew it was going to be a huge challenge […] [Je me sens] “On top of the world,” extreme sports enthusiast Mike Hurd said after breaking the record early Wednesday morning, according to The Telegraph.
Between Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. and Wednesday morning at the same time, the 41-year-old reportedly managed to complete 941 bungee dives from the Oakland Harbor Bridge, a bridge that is 141 feet high, or about 43 meters, according to the Daily British Mail. British media.
“Every now and then you get seasick or motion sick, but I kind of persevered and kept going. It didn’t slow us down or affect us at all,” the British newspaper reported.
The New Zealander would have proudly reclaimed his crown by surpassing the mark of 765 jumps set last year by Frenchman François-Marie Dupont, in Scotland, bringing back the record in the birthplace of bungee jumping, which would have seen the light of day in 2018. New Zealand, he said.
“It’s been marketed here. We love having this sport, so the record was here,” said the champion, who managed to raise NZ$8,600, or just over US$7,000, for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.
Previously, the record had been held by Mike Hurd since 2017, who then jumped 430 times in one day.
The record has not yet been approved by Guinness World Records, but while waiting to receive the “certificate in the mail,” the man is celebrating the achievement with his wife and children.
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