On the 7 of December of 2014, the 20th Impossibility Challenger took place in the stadium of Leiria, Portugal. It was the first time that the Impossibility Challenger visited Portugal. Over 130 participants from five countries set eleven new World Records and three personal records. This event organized by the Sri Chinmoy Centers is about self-transcendence and fun: pushing human capacities beyond the limits of possibility with stamina, mind- and heart-power, imagination and a sense of humour to show what we are capable of achieving.
Hier ein Video-Bericht auf Portugiesisch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mBdH0rdsU8
Below are the results of this year’s event.
Here you can → you download the results PDF ( shortly) with many nice photos!
Radek Rosa
Age: 40 years, 
Country: Czech Republic
Record #1 – new personal record
– Objective: pulling a truck carrying more than 20 people (>6 t) 20 meters in less than 20 minutes. – Achieved: pulled a 6155 kg truck 20 meters in 36.26 seconds!
Record #2 – new personal record
– Objective: pulling a bus filled with persons 40 meters in less than 20 minutes. – Achieved: pulled a 6243,5 kg bus (17 people inside) 40 meters in 57.75 seconds!
Record #3 – new personal record
– Objective: pulling a firefighter truck (>9t) 20 meters in less than 20 minutes. – Achieved: pulled a 9500 Kg truck 20 meters in 1 minute 29.75 seconds!
Vaibhava Kuschnow
Age: 36 years, Country: Austria
Record #1 – new world record
– Objective: climbing an UIAA 5 degree 7 meters wall with inline skates on without the break stopper. – Achieved: 3 new world records using routes with different degrees of difficulty: level 5 in 41.60 seconds, level 6 in 48.40 seconds and level 7 in 55.63 seconds!!
Record #2 – new world record
– Objective: on a slackline of 0.93 m height, hitting 10 consecutive shots in a target that is 18 m away from the centre of the slackline, without falling down. – Achieved: archery balanced on a slackline, hit 10 consecutive shots on the target summing a total of 64 points (3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 8 + 8 + 9)!
Charuhasi Schröder
Age: 49 years, Country: Germany
New world record
– Objective: 3.100 poems by poet Sri Chinmoy recited by heart over a period of 34 hours. – Achieved: 3.148 poems of Sri Chinmoy recited by heart!!
Carlos Vieira
Age: 61 years, Country: Portugal
New world record
– Objective: cycling on rollers on top of a fire truck for the longest time (>15h). – Achieved: 15 hours, 13 minutes and 55 seconds!
Albert Walter
Age: 40 years, Country: Switzerland
New world record
– Objective: tearing a Munich telephone directory from 2014 with 1551 pages in less than 10 seconds. – Achieved: 1551 pages in 9.38 seconds!
Escola do Riso
Founded in: 2005, Country: Portugal
Record #1 – new world record
– Objective: largest group in Portugal doing a Laughter Yoga class. – Achieved: 78 people doing a Laughter Yoga class for 20 minutes!
Record #2 – new world record
– Objective: longest Laughter Yoga session. – Achieved: 7 people did a Laughter Yoga class for 2 hours and 53 minutes.
Núcleo de Espeleologia de Leiria (NEL)
Founded in: 1981, Country: Portugal
New world record
– Objective: climbing up and down 27 m ropes several times until reaching a total of 8850 m, in less than 12h. – Achieved: 168 climbs, covered a total distance of 9072 m (4536 m up and 4536 m down) in 8h20min!
Juventude Vidigalense
Founded in: 1992, Country: Portugal
New world record
– Objective: the largest 400 m relay race. – Achieved: 106 runners participated, running a total of 42,4 km (marathon distance) in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 12 seconds!
Jorge Cardinali
Age: 49 anos, Country: Portugal
New world record
– Objective: having 3 plates spinning for the longest time (>2h). – Achieved: 4 hours, 13 minutes and 34 seconds!
Nuno Figueiredo and Jorge Pina
Age: 32 years, Country: Portugal
New world record
– Objective: the largest exhibition of drawings about peace and harmony made by children on A4 paper sheets. – Achieved: 8114 drawings by children of 76 schools and 8 districts of Portugal (Aveiro, Coimbra, Faro, Guarda, Leiria, Lisboa, Porto e Viseu)!
Hugo Rito
Age: 29 years, Country: Portugal
World record attempt
– Objective: 12 hours of backward running. – Achieved: 21.78 km in 2:51:06 (did not break the record).