Vietnamese gymnast brothers set new world record
Vietnamese acrobat duo the Giang Brothers have set a new world record with their head-balancing act in their final international performance in Italy on February 3.
Vietnamese acrobat duo the Giang Brothers have set a new world record with their head-balancing act in their final international performance in Italy on February 3.
Giang Quoc Co, 39 and Giang Quoc Nghiep, 34, scaled 10 steps and continued to walk along a 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface, and then walked down 10 more steps. The brothers did their performance in 1 minute and 55 seconds while balancing each other with their heads while being blindfolded to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Giang brothers performed the act in Milan following an invitation from the Guinness World Records organisation. They had three weeks to prepare for the performance.
The Giang brothers failed three times during their training before setting the new record. Quoc Nghiep shared with local newspapers that despite their failure, even fall, during the training, they were still confident in their experience.
That would be their last international performance as the two had shared that they would retire after the Milan show.
Earlier in 2021, the Giang Brothers also made a Guinness World Record when they climbed 100 stairs of the Cathedral of Girona in Spain in 53 seconds, breaking their own previous record of 90 steps in 52 seconds made here in December 2016.
Quoc Co and Quoc Nghiep first rose to global fame after finishing in the top 4 of the 2018 series of Britain’s Got Talent.
They also set a Guinness World Record in 2018 for 'climbing and descending ten stairs backwards while being blindfolded and balancing head-to-head' during a performance filmed in Italy.
The Vietnamese duo also won several local and international circus prizes, including the Grand Prix Award at the 10th International Circus Festival in Havana, Cuba in 2011. In addition, they picked up three prizes at the 13th International Circus Festival in Italy, including a silver medal and two minor titles awarded by internationally renowned circus groups Monte Carlo Circus and Cirque du Soleil, along with the Silver Lion Award at the 2011 13th International Circus Festival in China’s Hebei Province.
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