{"id":134,"date":"2007-10-02T03:13:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T10:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/general\/guinness-world-record-skim-a-stone-across-water\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T18:44:30","slug":"guinness-world-record-skim-a-stone-across-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/general\/guinness-world-record-skim-a-stone-across-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinness World Record – Skim a stone across water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell Byars’ managed to get the pebble to travel 250 feet (76 meters). He managed to ‘skim’ a stone across water 51 times, shattering the old world record of 40.<\/p>\n

Before declaring him a record holder, Guinness World Records experts analyzed film of Byars’ toss, checking the concentric circles in the water by each skip.<\/p>\n

“I actually threw 40 stones that day, but that was the first skip that I threw,” Byars told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, which confirmed the record with Guinness officials.<\/p>\n

The old record was set in 2002.
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