Stilt Walking Records
- Most people to simultaneously walk on stilts: 625. In 2008, Doug Hunt and the North Park Collegiate HS students organized a mass stilt walk of 625 people walking 100 metres (330 ft) on 12-inch peg stilts.
- Tallest stilts walked on: 56.5 feet (17.2 m). Roy Maloy of Australia, while wearing an overhead safety wire, took five independent steps on 56.5-foot stilts weighing 50.6 pounds (23.0 kg) each.
- Heaviest stilts walked on: On 23 December 2010 Roy Maloy broke the world record for walking on the heaviest stilts ever walked on. The stilts were made from red gum telephone pole segments and Roy walked the necessary 40 paces with each stilt weighing 35 kg per stilt.
- Longest stilt walk: 24 hours, 76.17 miles (122.58 km). Zdenek Jiruše of Czechoslovakia covered a distance of 76.17 miles (122.58 km) on stilts within 24 hours on 12 June 1992 in Pelhřimov.
- Fastest marathon on stilts: London Marathon 2008, 26.2 miles completed in 8 hours 25 minutes by Michelle Frost on 13 April 2008.
- Neil Sauter has completed the Grand Rapids Marathon on 3-foot-tall drywall stilts on two occasions. In 2007 he finished in 7 hours and 23 minutes. In 2008 he completed the race in 6 hours and 32 minutes.
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