Man breaks 100 metre sprint record wearing high heels
By Joel Sang and Story Agencies, June 26, 2023Running in high heels can be challenging because they can seriously hurt your feet, legs, hips, and low back.
However, a man in Spain set a new record for running while wearing heels. According to the Guinness World Records, Spanish serial record-breaker Christian Roberto Lopez Rodriguez, 34, has set yet another world record, this time for the fastest 100 metres in high heels.
Christian clocked a time of 12.82 seconds, which is only 3.24 seconds slower than Usain Bolt’s 100-metre sprint world record! The record was previously held by Germany’s André Ortolf, who achieved a time of 14.02 seconds in 2019.
Fortunately, despite the difficulty of running in high heels, Christian was able to complete his magnificent sprint without toppling down. “The preparation was very exhaustive and specific. I find it very challenging to be able to run in high heels at high speed.
In Spain there are races like this, and they have always gone well for me,” he added. Christian said he attempted this record to prove that Type 1 diabetics such as himself “can do as much or more things than people without diabetes.”
The record-keeping organisation further wrote that this isn’t the first 100-metre world record that Christian has set.
Others are the fastest 100 m blindfolded (12.45 seconds), fastest 100 m in clogs (12.58 seconds), fastest 100 m run backwards (13.17) seconds, fastest 100 m balancing a baseball bat on a finger (13.83 seconds) and fastest 100 m balancing a guitar on a finger (14.31 seconds).