A man from Detroit in the United States has made the world’s biggest rubber band ball after more than 10 years of work.
Claude P. Moore’s ball weighs 11,578 pounds. That’s about 5,250 kilograms, roughly as heavy as an elephant.
He started making rubber band balls while waiting at his many doctor’s appointments for haemophilia. This is a blood disorder where the blood doesn’t clot (thicken) properly, so cuts and bruises take longer to stop bleeding.
In 2015, some of his workmates challenged him to make a really big one.
The ball grew so large that he had to move it out of his garage and into its own storage unit.
In August, Mr Moore and dozens of helpers rolled the ball out, and a crane lifted it so it could be taken to Belle Isle to be weighed.
A judge from Guinness World Records watched the weighing and confirmed it was the world’s largest rubber band ball.
The old record belonged to Joel Waul from Florida, whose ball weighed 9,032 pounds (about 4,100 kilograms) when he finished it in 2008.
Mr Moore’s ball beat it by more than 1,100 kilograms.
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Upoko: He rekoata hou mō te pōro here rapa nui rawa
Kua hangaia e tētahi tāne nō Detroit, i Amerika, te pōro here rapa nui rawa o te ao, i muri i te neke atu i te 10 tau e mahi ana.
E 11,578 pāuna te taumaha o te pōro a Claude P. Moore. Arā, tata ki te 5,250 kirokaramu, he ōrite tōna taumaha ki tō te arewhana.
I tīmata ia ki te hanga pōro here rapa i a ia e tatari ana i ōna toronga maha ki te tākuta mō te haemophilia. He mate toto tēnei, kāore te toto e mātotoru tika ana, nā reira ka roa ake te mutu o te rere o te toto mai i ngā motu me ngā maru.
I te tau 2015, i wero ētahi o ōna hoa mahi i a ia kia hangaia he pōro tino nui.
I tino nui haere te pōro, nā reira me neke e ia i waho i tōna whare waka ki tētahi rūma pupuri mōna anake.
I te marama o Ākuhata, i hurihuria e Moore me te tini o ngā kaiāwhina te pōro ki waho, ā, i hikitia e tētahi crane kia kawea ki Belle Isle kia inea tōna taumaha.
I mātakitaki tētahi kaiwhakawā nō Guinness World Records i te inenga, ā, i whakaū ia ko tēnei te pōro here rapa nui rawa o te ao.
Nā Joel Waul nō Florida te rekoata i mua. E 9,032 pāuna (tata ki te 4,100 kirokaramu) te taumaha o tōna pōro i tana whakaotinga i te tau 2008.
He nui ake te taumaha o te pōro a Moore, neke atu i te 1,100 kirokaramu.
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