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Bizarre world record for longest basketball spin on toothbrush held by B.C. man

Sandeep Singh crowned king spinner on Jan. 1 with time of 68 seconds

After a tumultuous few years of the record going back and forth between various people, it appears that the for the amount of time spinning a basketball on a toothbrush is secure in the mouth of Abbotsford resident Sandeep Singh.

He shattered the record back on Jan. 1, 2019, when he recorded a time of 68.15 seconds. That smashed the previous record of 64.03, which was achieved by Thaneswar Guragai of Nepal on March 24, 2018.

Guaragi had bested SinghB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s previous record of 60.5 seconds, which he recorded on Dec. 25, 2017.

Previous records included: HungaryB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s Istvan Csapo - 55.9 seconds on Nov. 4, 2017, IndiaB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s Kunal Singhal - 55.8 seconds on May 25, 2017, Singh (for the first time) - 53 seconds on April 8, 2017 and IndiaB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s Mohnish Nikam - 46.16 seconds on April 7, 2017.

However, after passing hands many times over recent years Singh has held the record for the duration of 2019, and told The B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ· that he has applied for a new record of 73 seconds. He has not yet heard back from Guinness regarding that record.

Singh was for his record setting mark of 60.5 seconds.

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Ben Lypka

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I joined the Abbotsford B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ· in 2015.
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