Moscow’s Red Square hosted an extreme athletic show of Russia’s strongest men, Russian Bogatyrs. The athletes demonstrated superhuman strength, and some of their feats were recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Only one person in the world is capable of inflating a hot-water bottle without using his hands: Russian athlete Maxim Baruzdin. He said he invented the dangerous trick accidentally while waiting for his turn behind the scenes during a show.
Ivan Chugunny, another member of the Russian team, can easily bend 16-mm metal bars. He twisted a bar into four rings in honor of the Sochi Olympics. Should have made five, he joked.
The athletes left the most difficult tricks for the closing part of the show. The team captain, Alexander Muromsky, folded two iron bars in half and twisted a pan into a pipe, repeating his earlier record documented in the Guinness Book of Records.
The extreme show was established in 1999. Since then, Russian athletes have been recorded in the Guinness Book three times and won the national championship in extreme sport nine times.
Russian athletes bend iron bars and twist pans into pipes
12:35 GMT 24.05.2010 (Updated: 19:51 GMT 19.10.2022)
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Moscow’s Red Square hosted an extreme athletic show of Russia’s strongest men, Russian Bogatyrs. The athletes demonstrated superhuman strength, and some of their feats were recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Only one person in the world is capable of inflating a hot-water bottle without using his hands: Russian athlete Maxim Baruzdin. He said he invented the dangerous trick accidentally while waiting for his turn behind the scenes during a show.
