An engineering student of Tumakuru’s Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), Eshwar N, sets a new Guinness World Record by running the fastest mile while controlling a table tennis ball with a racquet.
He sets the record with the world’s fastest time of 6min16.53 seconds, breaking the earlier mark of 6 min 24.69 seconds set by Christian Roberto López Rodríguez’s of Yuncos, Spain.
Having won several tournaments, Eshwar was heavily inspired by Bengaluru’s MS Ramaiah Institute alumni Susmith Rajendra Barigidad, who had achieved the Guinness World Record a couple of years ago. Being paddler friends, both Eshwar and Susmith have won several competitions held and conducted by the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi.
What’s special however is that Eshwar has to wear spectacles, making it a more difficult job to achieve this sort of a record – where hand and eye coordination takes primary importance. But Eshwar had trained for this day for a year, in fact, putting in a lot of hard hours training at the Tumakuru Badminton Academy to see this record through.
“I wanted to achieve something special and did with table tennis as the sport has struck a chord with me since childhood. I will now concentrate on the game to win the table tennis nationals,” Eshwar said.