Elon Musk recently took to his social media to celebrate the extraordinary accomplishment of Indian athlete Vispy Kharadi. He shared a video featuring Kharadi’s feat of record setting. Kharadi is known for his incredible strength, and he found a spot in the Guinness World Records by setting a new record in the Hercules pillars hold event. The Superhuman Stunt took place at Surat, India, demonstrating unmatched endurance and physical prowess by Kharadi.
Musk then goes on to post links to a video from the official Guinness World Records account on X (formerly Twitter), paying homage to Kharadi for an impressive milestone and delivering the new standard for the record.
Watch the video here:
Kharadi demonstrated extraordinary human strength by holding the Hercules pillars for an impressive 2 minutes and 10.75 seconds. The pillars, standing 123 inches tall with a 20.5-inch diameter, weighed 166.7 kg and 168.9 kg, respectively. This incredible feat was officially documented by Guinness and entered into their Book of World Records just an hour ago.
A well-decorated athlete, Kharadi already has numerous Guinness World Records to his name and is also credited with several other strength-related feats. He has black belts in varied disciplines as per his X profile, a holder of 13 Guinness World Records, and trains BSF Commandos without weapons, in addition to being a fitness expert.
Some of the existing records he holds include crushing the maximum quantity of drink cans by hand in 1 minute, which accounts for a lustrous number of 89. He also owns the record of bending the maximum number of iron bars with his head in 1 minute, which were 24.