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Cuban sets new record for performing most consecutive ball touches with head while treading water

Xinhua, February 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cuban Jhoen Lefont on Saturday refreshed his old Guinness World Record feat with 1,513 consecutive football touches in a swimming pool at the Melia Cohiba hotel in the Cuban capital.

Lefont, 27 and a former water polo player, got a mention at the Guinness World Record for accomplishing 1,503 consecutive football touches with the head while treading water in ten minutes on Aug. 10, 2013, in the swimming pool of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana.

The official judges present officially confirmed Saturday's number, after checking videos from two cameras, one at water level and one underwater. Endit