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NEW WORLD RECORD
Longest Hug: London sets world record (HD Video)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Longest
Hug - Faisal Mohyud-Din and Mohammed Azeem sets world record
OLDHAM, UK -- Faisal Mohyud-Din and Mohammed
Azeem, students at Salford University, managed
to hug one another for 24 hours and 17 minutes - setting the
new world record for the Longest
Hug. 
Photo: Faisal Mohyud-Din and Mohammed
Azeem celebrate after setting a new world record of 24hrs
17mins for the longest hug (enlarge
photo)
Mr Mohyud-Din, a talented sprinter who is
aiming to compete in the 2012 Olympics, said: "This was certainly
a marathon rather than a sprint. "I needed all my reserves
of stamina to get through it, but I'm over the moon to have
broken the
world record for the Longest Hug - hopefully the first
of many."
They have raised money for the new Christie
cancer unit in Oldham. The embrace is the charity logo of
The Christie Hospital.
The previous Guinness world record
for Longest
Hug was smashed by 16 minutes.
They finished their feat at Oldham Athletic's
Boundary Park stadium during the team's game against Leyton
Orient.
Alicia Custis, head of communications
at The Christie, added: "Massive congratulations to Faisal
and Azeem for the new Longest
Hug world record - they've done fantastically well
and fought against sleep deprivation and muscle fatigue. "I
know it was incredibly hard work and I'm hugely grateful to
them for doing this for the Christie. This is a hug for all
our cancer patients."
They were monitored throughout the challenge
and had to stay awake at all times.
The Salford University students said
they wanted to do it because everyone is at risk of suffering
from the killer disease. The Christie Cancer
Hospital is opening a new £17m radiotherapy centre in Oldham
later this week.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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