LITHUANIA: ANTANAS KONTRIMAS TOWS ARMY JEEP WITH FIVE SOLDIERS ABOARD WITH HIS BEARD AT THE MILITARY GAMES IN TELSHIAI.

Record ID: 862002

  • Title: LITHUANIA: ANTANAS KONTRIMAS TOWS ARMY JEEP WITH FIVE SOLDIERS ABOARD WITH HIS BEARD AT THE MILITARY GAMES IN TELSHIAI.
  • Date: 6th July 2002
  • Summary: TELSHIAI, LITHUANIA (JULY 6, 2002)(REUTERS) ANTANAS KONTRIMAS, CHAMPION BEARD PULLER, CHATTING WITH SPECTATORS CLOSE UP OF BEARD CLOSE UP OF BELT LAND ROVER JEEP PULLING UP KONTRIMAS DIRECTING DRIVER VARIOUS OF KONTRIMAS CONNECTING BELT TO JEEP ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WHO WILL SIT ON THE JEEP BEING WEIGHED KONTRIMAS GETTING READY FOR PULL SOLDIERS WATCHING KONTRIMAS TYING BEARD TO BELT SOLDIERS WATCHING VARIOUS OF KONTRIMAS PULLING JEEP WITH HIS BEARD CLOSE UP OF WHISKERS CAUGHT IN BELT GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS CERTIFICATE (SOUNDBITE)(Lithuanian) KONTRIMAS, ANSWERING REPORTERS QUESTION WHY DO YOU DO IT? SAYING: "Satisfaction! It's not necessarily about keeping my beard short, just getting some hairs pulled out each time." REPORTERS QUESTION: "How do you care for your beard?" ANSWER: "Beer, beer and more beer" REPORTERS QUESTION: "How much beer do you drink each day?" ANSWER: "Up to five litres" VARIOUS OF KONTRIMAS POURING THEN DRINKING A BEER AFTER SHOW
  • Embargoed: 21st July 2002 13:00
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  • Location: TELSHIAI, LITHUANIA
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  • Country: Lithuania
  • Topics: Entertainment,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
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  • Story Text: Antanas Kontrimas, already well-known in the small Baltic state of Lithuania for having the longest beard in the country, has now proved it is also the strongest by pulling a jeep and five passengers using his long whiskers.
    At a military exhibition in the Lithuanian city of Telshiai on Saturday (July 6), the man with Lithuania's longest beard pulled a military jeep and five soldiers over a distance of 13.35 meters using only his facial hair.
    Antanas Kontrimas, three times Guinness world champion, pulled the vehicle and passengers down a racetrack with the 2907 kilogram force stretching his beard as far as it would go.
    The spectacle was not an attempt at the Guinness world record but a show put on for the military games of the Lithuanian army.
    After the pull, Kontrimas seemed surprised he had only lost a few whiskers in the performance.
    Kontrimas, who weighs 135 kilograms, said he had to give up beer for a week before the event, normally he would gulp down five litres of his favourite homebrew daily.
    "Beer, beer and more beer," is the secret Kontrimas credits to the strength of his whiskers.
    Kontrimas, who holds the world record for lifting a girl weighing 61,3 kilograms with his beard said he is keen to try a new attempt at the record in August (2002).
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