Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Most twins and triplets in one class: Keller middle school set world record
KELLER, TX, USA -- The seventh-grade class at Indian Springs Middle School in Keller has 13 sets of twins, one set of triplets and one set of quadruplets - setting the new world record for Most twins and triplets in one class.
Photo: Indian Springs Middle School held the most-multiples world record with 13 pairs of twins, a set of triplets and a set of quadruplets. Photo: Melanie McCray (enlarge photo)
The previous Guinness World Record record holders J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, had 10 sets of twins and one set of triplets.
Guinness World Records also recognized the Largest gathering of twins - opposite sex, set by a total of 806 pairs of opposite sex fraternal twins gathered at Chung-Shan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.
"I started noticing all the multiples because we had a bunch in athletics," said Matt Sanchez, an Indian Springs coach and seventh-grade English teacher. He also had more twins in his English class.
"We had to send copies of all 33 birth certificates, enrollment documents from the school, a letter from the principal and two notarized witness statements verifying the validity of all the documents," said Kyra Johnson, an Indian Springs mom who helped lead the record-breaking effort.
"As you can imagine, it took several weeks to pull all of this together."
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, about 2.8 percent of births were twins in 1998, the year most of the seventh-graders were born. For triplets, the share was 0.18 percent, or fewer than 2 in 1,000 births, while 627 births nationwide were quadruplets.
"It's a great deal to be able to say that we did that,"said Matt Sanchez, a teacher at Indian Springs who worked with Johnson and the kids. "It's like a big family now. They're forever linked."
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