[Cerita Dunia] John Evans, the strongest head in the world, can lift cars and 96 people

ILKESTON, KOMPAS.com – Ever heard of the name John Evans? He is a person with strongest head in the world, even to the point of being able to lift a car.

The name becomes world story since breaking the record of balancing cars and speedboats on his head.

Launch Derby Telegraph on August 20, 2018, John Evans had already broken 92 world record for various categories of balance and strength.

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Among these records, the most phenomenal was carrying 429 fully filled beverage cans on his head, 98 milk crates, and a Mini Cooper unit.

John Evans is now 73 years old. He lives with his wife, Gloria (70), in Ilkeston, England.

“I used to work on a construction project around the age of 18, that’s when I realized I could carry 24 bricks on my head and climb stairs without making them fall.”

“When I was about 45 years old, I watched Geoff Capes, the strongest man in the world, perform at Ripley and hold 24 bricks in his chest, to get ridiculous acclaim.”

“I thought ‘OK I can balance 36 (bricks) in my head’, I have to give it a try,” said John Evans telling the origin of getting “power”.

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Since then John Evans has broken individual world records, including his own.

The first Guinness World Record he broke was 1993 on the program Channel 4 The Big Breakfast. At that time John Evans carried 83 cartons of milk on his head.

John Evans was also a generous person. He managed to raise around 250,000 pounds (now IDR 5 billion) for Children in Need, PDSA (People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals), and blind charities, because he also experienced it with only one eye.

Evans admits that the heaviest load he has ever carried on his head is an object weighing 190 kg, exceeding his body weight of 133 kg.

Citing the website headbalancer.com, here are a small number rekor John Evans.

1.98 157 kg milk crates in Derbyshire, UK, 5 July 2008.

2. 101 bricks weighing 188 kg in BBC Center for the National Lottery TV show, 24 December 1997.

3. A small car weighing 162 kg at the Guinness Show in Paris, December 22, 1999.

4. 275 bottles of beer at the Haifa Beer Festival, Israel, August 15, 2013.

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5,429 cans of drink at Ilkeston School, Nottinghamshire, UK, 5 June 2007.

6.2 women ride a bicycle with a total weight of 169 kg, at the Guinness TV show, Helsinki, October 24, 1999.

7. 2 158 kg cement mixer on fundraiser for Edward Bright (date unknown).

8. 96 people in 1 hour, per group taken to walk 3 meters for 10 seconds, on 23 July 2000.

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9.2 piles of 164 kg washing machines, 2005.

10. Motorcycle weighing 156 kg, August 2007.

11. 1 unit mobil Mini Cooper, 15 April 2011.

12.140 kg refrigerator for 13 seconds without holding his hand, in a South Korean tv program, Starking, 30 April 2012.

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