Pakistani girls win three Guinness World Records beating India and Sweden
Pakistani girls win three Guinness World Records beating India and Sweden
Two Pakistani girls won three titles in total from the Guinness World Records after beating India and Sweden.
"Emma Alam from Karachi, Pakistan, breaks 2 world records, and teammate Syeda Kisa Zehra, breaks 1 World Record, and both girls get recognized by the Guinness World Records," a press release issued by the Guinness World Records read.
Emma Alam, who is the World Memory Champion 2020 by breaking the world record of Most Random Words Memorised in Sequence in 15 Minutes — 410 random words to be precise — a record previously held by India.
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Alam also broke the world record of Most Names and Faces Memorized in 15 Minutes, with 218 names and faces memorized — a record previously held by Sweden.
Besides that, Syeda Kisa Zehra, a gold medalist at the 29th World Memory Championship, broke the world record of Most Historic/Future (fictional) Dates Memorized in 5 Minutes, with 241 dates memorized.
Alam and Zehra broke the world record in fictional dates formerly held by India; however, the latter notched higher points than the former's record and consequently got the Guinness World Records title.
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"It’s an honor to be recognized by the Guinness World Records, I can now say, 'I am officially amazing!'," Alam said.
"Indeed it’s a privilege to be declared the best in the world in the amazing feat of memory, which goes to show how amazing the human memory bank is,” Zehra added.
Both Alam and Zehra "were trained under the leadership of Sania Alam who is a Super-Learning Master Trainer, one of the only four in the World Senior Licensed Instructors and the President of Futuristic Learning", the statement added.
The records were broke in December 2020 but have just recently been certified by the Guinness World Records.
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