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1 Hour Balloon Modelling

The Rules

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World Records

296    Salvatore Sabatino (Germany)                        10-07-1998
367 John Cassidy (USA) 10-05-1999
369 Atila Samulski (Germany) 9-10-2000
436 Salvatore Sabatino (Germany) 24-10-2000
468 John Cassidy (USA) 16-02-2001
494 John Cassidy (USA) 29-08-2002
529 John Cassidy (USA) 14-10-2003
553 Salvatore Sabatino (Germany) 24-09-2005
654 John Cassidy (USA) 11-2005
747 John Cassidy (USA) 14-11-2007


The Sprint: 100 Animals

The Rules

standard animal (JPG, 4
        kB)

World Records: 100 dogs, balloons already inflated

15:35 min    Ralf Laue (Germany)                        10-  7- 1998 Flensburg
14:12 min Franz Probst, FABELLINI (Germany) 1999
12:56 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 16- 7- 2000 Oberflachs
11:21 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 3- 8- 2000 Luzern
11:19 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 23- 8- 2000 Lachen
11:04 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 30- 8- 2000 Küssnacht am Rigi
10:25 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 5- 9- 2000 Seewen
9:53 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 13- 9- 2000 Einsiedeln
9:22 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 20- 9- 2000 Oberburg
9:06 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 27- 9- 2000 Pfäffikon (SZ)
8:52 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 15- 9- 2000 Boswil
8:29 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 18- 9- 2000 Ibach
8:05 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 25- 10- 2000 Zug
8:01 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 25- 10- 2000 Zug
7:53 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 8- 11- 2000 Baar
6:41 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 15- 11- 2000 Siebnen
6:29 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 25- 3- 2001 Suhr
6:26 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 19- 4- 2001 Abtwil
6:18 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 22- 3- 2001 Remigen
6:14 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 25- 4- 2001 Huttwil
5:55 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 9- 5- 2001 Brunnen
5:48 min Ronald van den Berg (Switzerland) 24- 8- 2002 Sempach
Ralf Laue (JPG, 12
              kB)Ralf Laue's record on video:
as Quicktime movie (1,8 MB) or AVI (2 MB).

World Records: 100 dogs, inflating by mouth

14:04 min Atila Samulski (Germany)     1999
13:53 min Salvatore Sabatino (Germany) 2000
12:51 min Salvatore Sabatino (Germany) 2000
12:05 min Atila Samulski (Germany) 2001

World Records: 100 dogs, inflating by mouth, on stilts

19:12 min Tip-Top-Till (Germany)   2000

World Records: 100 dogs, inflating by mouth, behind the back

21:52 min Tip-Top-Till (Germany)   2000
18:42 min Atila Samulski (Germany) 2001

The Long Distance: Records for 3 Hours / 6 Hours / 10 Hours / 24 Hours

The Rules

World Records: 3 Hours

827         François Cormier (Canada)        1991

World Records: 6 Hours

1227        Uwe Lenhardt (Germany)     07-09-1996
1403 Uwe Lenhardt (Germany) 30-08-1998
1435 Reidar Grønnevold (Norway) 02-11-1998
1616 Tip-Top-Till (Germany) 29-09-1999

World Records: 10 Hours

2228        Uwe Lenhardt (Germany)     30-08-1998

World Records: 24 Hours

6176        Tim The Balloonatic (USA)  16-04-2004


Most Balloon Flowers

(most flowers made from at least two balloons within 8 hours)
2335 flowers
Ralf Esslinger, Thomas Hinte ["Tom Bola"] (both Germany) and Guido Verhoef (Netherlands) 13 May 2012 at the Regional Garden Show in Nagold

2317 flowers Tobias Diesner, Markus Kaufmann and Ralf Esslinger (Germany) 11 May 2008 at the Regional Garden Show in Neu-Ulm

Ballonblumen

2269 flowers Tobias Diesner, Markus Kaufmann and Tobias Schmidt (Germany)
(see photo, source: LEGOLAND Germany)
9 May 2004 at LEGOLAND Germany
2133 flowers Mischa Eisinger, Ralf Esslinger and Roman Kratt,  "Balloon Art Company" (Germany) 15 October 1999
1624 flowers Mischa Eisinger, Ralf Esslinger and Roman Kratt, "Balloon Art Company" (Germany) June 1998


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