Father’s Day (which will be on August 13th) is that date of the year when we take the opportunity to strengthen ties and honor our father figure. Some give gifts, others make surprises and there are even those who like to overcome limits and go on adventures with their father.
Thinking about it, the CNN traveled the world and, with the help of Guinness World Records, put together a list of 11 records broken and held by parents around the world. Look:
1 – Climbing mountains
Our first record comes from Nepal. Dendi Sherpa and his daughter Ngim Chhamji Sherpa were the first father-daughter duo to climb Mount Everest together (featured photo) .
The mark was reached on May 19, 2012, when they reached the summit of the South Summit, a secondary peak of the range.
2 – Defying age
In August 2007, Indian Nanu Ram Jogi celebrated the birth of what he believes is his twenty-first daughter. Girija came into the world when her father was 90 years old, making Nanu the oldest known father.
His first child was born in 1943 and he hoped to have more children until he was 100 years old.
Girija’s mother was the fourth wife of the Indian, and had been married to another son of Nanu who died in 1997.
3 – Going around the world
Canadians WR “Bob” Dengler and Stven Dengler were the first father and son duo to fly around the world in an airplane.
The mark was reached on August 17, 2017, in the city of Bolton, in the Canadian province of Ontario.
4 – Reaching Everest together
The first father, son and daughter team to climb the peak of Mount Everest was also formed by Nepalese.
At 5:58 am on May 23, Tenzing Dorjee Sherpa, Sonam Tashi Sherpa and Pasang Kanchi Sherpa reached the highest point in the world.
5 – Shining the screens
American actor Ron Cephas Jones won an Emmy Award on the same day as his daughter, actress Jasmine Cephas Jones.
On the night of September 19, 2020, the duo made history and marked the first time a father and daughter won the award in the same season.
Ron won the award for best guest actor in a drama series, which crowned his performance as William Hill in This Is Us. Jasmine took home the award for Best Actress in a Short Series, Drama or Comedy, for #FreeRayshawn.
6 – Crossing seas
Steve Roedde and Nigel Roedde were the first father-son duo to row across an entire ocean. The first was 56 years and 326 days old and the second was 23 years and 143 days old when they started the crossing in a team made up of 14 more people.
The combined ages of the pair equaled 80 years and 104 days on the day they left Morocco for Barbados. The journey across the Atlantic Ocean took 47 days and 18 hours.
7 – Reverse record
On the other hand, the youngest father-son duo to row across an entire ocean was formed by Norman Beech and James Beech. Norman, the father, was 50 years and 32 days old; James, the son, was 18 years and 321 days old. Together, the two had an average age of 34 years and 177 days.
They left on January 4, 2010 from the Spanish island of La Gomera, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived in the Caribbean island of Antigua on March 27 of the same year. The crossing lasted 82 days aboard the Beech Boys Atlantic boat.
8 – Running together
2 hours, 14 minutes and 7 seconds was the time it took Brits Andrew Leach and Matt Leach to run a half marathon on January 19, 2020.
The mark is the world record for the distance covered by a pair formed by father and son and was achieved in Houston, in the US state of Texas.
9 – Family Marathon
Irishmen Toomy and Eoin Hughes hold the record for the fastest father and son running a marathon in the world.
It took the pair 4 hours, 59 minutes and 22 seconds to cover the distance at the Frankfurt Marathon in Germany on October 27, 2019.
10 – Baseball records
And there was a match between father and son in baseball too. Americans Ken Griffey and Ken Jr. were the first pair of father and son to be able to hit a home run – that is, when the batter can circle all the bases on the field – in Major League Baseball (MLB), the North American league of the sport.
At the time, the two were playing together for the Seattle Mariners on September 14, 1990.
11 – Accumulating records
Ken Griffey and Ken Jr. they were also the first father-son duo to play together on the same MLB team at the same time. They took the field together for the Seattle Mariners for the first time on August 31, 1990 at Kingdome Stadium in Seattle against the Kansas City Royals.
The game ended 5-2 for the record-breaking duo’s team.
Source: CNN Brasil
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