Longest Distance Covered Online By A Group Of Runners Over 20 Days
To commemorate Singapore Management University’s 20th anniversary, the SMU Challenge organising committee rebranded its annual fund-raising event into SMOO Challenge 2020. From 1 to 20 Sep, a total of 1,001 students, staff, alumni, faculty members and friends from the public clocked 57,346.35 km in 20 days. Participants registered and uploaded their handphones’ GPS-based tracking results to 42race.com Read More »
Most Number Of Steps Walked In 10 Days
R Subramaniam, who holds the record for fastest walking around Singapore (103.6 km in 18 hr 47 min), completed 501,370 steps in 10 days from 6 to 15 Sep 2020. This is roughly about 400 km. The steps were monitored by his phone app. The record attempt was sponsored by Vithya Sri and Khirthana. Read More »
Largest Display Of Bottle Cap Castanets
Students and staff of Stamford Primary School collected bottle caps and they were made into castanets by pasting each pair to a folded cardboard. On 8 Oct 2020, to mark Children’s Day, they danced and played the castanets to the song ‘Semoga Bahagia’ in their classrooms, and thereafter each class stick the handmade instruments onto a board. The boards were brought ... Read More »
Fastest 5 x 20-Km Walk Around Singapore
Five veteran race walkers organised a relay walk around Singapore stretching from Pasir Ris to Jurong. The 100-km route was completed in 13 hr 4 min, before dawn on 20 Sep 2020. They were R Subramaniam, 57, Tanaball s/o Ramasamy, 68, Jeyakumar s/o Ramasamy Dharmalingam, 64, Rajanthran s/o MK Subramanian, 57, and Perumal Thurairajoo, 58. The event was sponsored by ... Read More »
Largest Logo With Superimposed Text
The graduating Secondary Fours of Tanjong Katong Secondary School wrote down their thanks and wishes for the school. The comments were compiled and printed over the school logo and the 2m by 2m poster was unveiled on 25 Sep 2020. The students, calling themselves ‘Class of Acuity’ also donated a plaque to the school. Read More »
