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World Records for Stacking Matchsticks on a Bottleneck



The Rules

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e information.)
  1. The record is for the greatest number of matchsticks balanced on the neck of a bottle.
  2. It is not permitted to use any sort of adhesive.
  3. The stack must remain standing for at least one minute.

The Best Results

20270 Alexander Bendikov (Belarus)                     2012*
18000 Alexander Bendikov (Belarus)                     2008*
10627 Peter Both (Germany)                             2002*
 6261 Jaromír Dedic (Czech Republic)                   2000
 2620 Ralf Laue (Germany)                              1994
 2500 Holger Freelandt (Germany)                       1994
 2272 Christian & Daniel Leutert (Switzerland)         1993*
 1956 Marc Schwarz (Germany)                           1993*
 1584 Sven D. Kitzinger (Liechtenstein)                1992*
 1340 Martin Läuter (East Germany)                     1989*
 1019 Vladimíra Lonková (Czech Republic)               1991*
 1013 Katja Deckert & Ulrike Beyer (West Germany)      1981*
  684 Philippe Voisin & Denis Brunet (France)          1987

(* = was a world record)

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