4th SAXONIA Record Festival, Flensburg 1998

14 record breakers from 7 countries
record attempts in 21 categories
14 new world records.

New World Records:

• Speed Balloon Modelling: speed record for 100 balloon "dogs": Ralf Laue (Germany) 15:35 minutes (DETAILS )
  Salvatore Sabatino won the one hour balloon sculpturing contest with 296 figures (new world record).
• Truck pulling with one finger: George Olesen (Denmark) pulled a truck weighting 8560 kg for a distance of 15.20 m (16 yd 1 ft 10 in)
• Most "voices" by a ventriloquist: Peter Moreno set a new record with ten voices.
• Memorizing spoken numbers (digits were spoken in one second intervals): Dominic O'Brien (Great Britain), memory world champion, with 68
• Phone book tearing: Georges Christen (Luxemburg), teared a phone book of 782 pages into 10 pieces.
• One Finger Lift: George Olesen (Denmark) 323 kg (712 lb)
• Push-Ups on fresh eggs: Johann Schneider (Austria), 101  QUICKTIME VIDEO (640 kB) / AVI VIDEO (840 kB)
• Speed Painting: Gero Hilliger (Germany), the fastest portrait cartoonist  made speed portraits of the festival's visitors. His fastest portrait was one of 5.19 seconds (new world record).

"Records For Everyone":

• 50 m Beer Barrel Rolling: Herbert Christophersen, 19.87 sec
• Changing 4 wheels of a car without electrical tools: Ulrich Haas, 5:08 min.
• 25 m Office Chair Pulling: Rudi Scholz, 5.33 sec
• Compact Disc Throwing: Kim Flatow, 66.75 m (73 yd)
• Billiard Queue Throwing: Dan Kornblum, 43.10 m (47 yd 5 in)

More Results:

• Hartmut Kiele (Germany) tried to balance a football on his head for more than 45:32 minutes. He did not reach a new world record, but 19 minutes was also an impressive achievement. DETAILS
• Paul Sahli (Switzerland) failed to improve his own record for football juggling while climbing up a ladder ( PHOTO ). He was just six steps away from the 103rd step of a ladder which would have been a new world record.
• Ralf Laue (Germany) could not improve his own record as a "human calendar"
• Manfred Wagner (Switzerland), ( PHOTO ) had bad luck with his record attempts for juggling a billiard ball and a golf ball with feet. He has juggled them just a few minutes - too short for a world record.
• Jean Marie Lievonnen (France) could not break his own record for pancake high tossing (8.60 m (9 yd 1 ft 3 in)), but the spectators had a lot of fun with this record attempt.
• Friedrich Konrad (Austria) ( PHOTO ) lifted a 150 kg (330 lb) beer barrel. Unfortunately, he had some problems with the shape of the barrel. For this reason, he could not achieve a new world record of 155 kg (341 lb).