‘Sydney World Record’

17 YEAR OLD GUINNESS WORLD RECORD
 FINALLY BROKEN IN SYDNEY
 
 

After having withstood numerous challenges over 17 years, the World Catwalk record of 133.7 km was broken by two Sydney students after a marathon fashion event that lasted over 41 hours at the Sydney Town Hall Square.   Suresh Joachim, a nine times Guinness record holder and Paul Yan, a Sydney university student in sports science traversed a 16.2 m catwalk over 8364 times to claim this long-standing record at 6.30 am on Saturday. The record attempt was made more difficult by recent Guinness changes that enforced non-stop performance for eight hours before a 15 minute break was permitted.  During the distance of over 3 combined marathons of 135.5km, the Sydney pair also raised awareness and money for the Children’s Cancer institute Australia.