Twenty-four-hour pushing of a car for two Macedonians resulted in breaking the Guinness World Record this morning. Alexander Chekorov and Alexander Smilkov ousted the record of 82.5km set by two Americans. The two Macedonians pushed the car for 95 kilometers in a period of 24 hours, reads Telegraf.mk.
Although very tired Chekorov shared his satisfaction with the media after the last second ticked away.
“We started pushing the car at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, and ousted the record sometime after midnight. It was hard and we suffered emotionally at times, but we managed. It went pretty hard about 16 hours, but once we surpassed the record we started to take it easy”, said Alexander Chekorov.
He did not rule out the possibility in the future to try again such an interesting task to achieve a Guinness record. However, he first wants to have a good rest.
Chekerov said he needed time to find someone with whom he will try to break down the record. Hence, meeting Smilkov a year ago awakened the idea for such a venture.
These brave guys have been preparing for this feat three months earlier. Their training was literally pushing the car for several hours.
“Fifteen years ago I came across one edition of the Guinness World Records where I saw two people pushing car and said "let's see what this is." Aleksander and I both practise running marathons and somehow it just gave me more motivation to do this,” Chekorov says.
“There were many anecdotes during preparation. On one occasion, we've been pushing the car near the sports center "Boris Trajkovski" and of course, it took a few hours. At that moment there was some boxing championship at the center. Boxers saw us pushing the car when entering and later, after an hour and a half, maybe even two, they went out and saw us again pushing the car. Their reaction was really funny”.
At first, relatives of Chekorov and Smilkov were skeptical about this feat, but now are all behind them. Many also joined their group on "Facebook" for this event.
