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Lucknow school sets world record for highest<br />

student enrolment in year<br />

The <strong>City</strong> <strong>Montessori</strong> <strong>School</strong> in Lucknow, India, has been included in the latest edition<br />

of Guinness Book of World Records for the highest number of students being enrolled<br />

in a year.<br />

It made a record enrolment of 39,437 pupils for the 2010-2011 academic year, the<br />

Daily Mail reported.<br />

Among others to find a place in the 2013 edition is Popeye lookalike Moustafa Ismail<br />

and his monstrous biceps, and a man with the tallest mohican hairstyle, measuring a<br />

towering 3ft 8in.<br />

Johanna Quaas, an 86-year-old retired PE teacher from Leipzig, Germany, was named<br />

the oldest gymnast while Egyptian-born Moustafa Ismail got recognition for having the<br />

largest 'guns' - biceps and triceps - with a circumference of 25.5in.<br />

The 24-year-old bodybuilder, now living in Franklin, Massachusetts, has arms with a<br />

greater circumference than the average human head.<br />

London-based sumo wrestler Sharran Alexander, who weighs 203.21 kg (32 stone),<br />

was also named as the world's heaviest sportswoman.<br />

Among the new edition's animal-based records are new bests for the shortest bull and<br />

the tallest dog, a Great Dane measuring 44in from foot to withers.<br />

Archie, a 29-month-old Dexter breed bull owned by a County Armagh-based farm,<br />

measures just 76.2 cm (30in) from hoof to withers.<br />

Other records in the 57th edition of the book include the lowest roadworthy car - a<br />

vehicle created by students and teachers in Asakuchi, Japan, which measures 45.2cm<br />

(17.79in) from the ground to its highest part.<br />

Being published in 22 languages in more than 100 countries, the 2013 Guinness World<br />

Records is expected to sell around 2.7 million copies and documents numerous new<br />

extremes relating to the human body. (ANI)<br />

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