Christopher Chataway
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Sir Christopher John Chataway was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster and Conservative politician.
Chataway in 1972
Guinness World Records
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Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference
Christopher Chataway
…the race in fifth place. On leaving university he took an executive job with Guinness. When Sir Hugh Beaver of Guinness came up with the idea for the Guinness Book of Records, it was Chataway who suggested his old university friends Norris and Ross McWhirter as editors, knowing of their liking for facts. Chataway continued…
Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi with two Guinness World Record certificates
Attendees at the 2011 Where's Wally? Guinness World Record event in Dublin, Ireland. Setting a record for 3,872 people dressed as Wally, the total was surpassed in 2017 with 4,626 people in Japan.
![As of 2006[update], Lucky Diamond Rich holds the Guinness World Record of "The world's most tattooed person", with tattoos covering his entire body.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Lucky_Diamond_Rich_face.jpg/500px-Lucky_Diamond_Rich_face.jpg)
As of 2006[update], Lucky Diamond Rich holds the Guinness World Record of "The world's most tattooed person", with tattoos covering his entire body.
The North Beach (Nazaré, Portugal), listed on the Guinness World Records for the biggest waves ever surfed