Story By: Gheorghi Caraseni, Sub Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Newsflash

This is the moment a young Russian athlete breaks a world record for maintaining a headstand for almost half an hour – her 20th record in a single month.

Karolina Chernykh, 11, from the city of Yekaterinburg in the western Russian region of Sverdlovsk Oblast, reportedly broke 18 world records and two national records (listed below) for various feats during the month of April alone.

In the footage, the girl is seen smashing the world record for a headstand in the 11-year-old category after registering 22 minutes and 2 seconds on the clock.

Karolina’s mother Elena Chernykh, 49, told Newsflash that her daughter also excels at tennis and that she won the Junior Russian Tennis Championship in 2018.

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Elena said: “It is very important that she is not just a record breaker but a sportswoman first and foremost. When she was seven, we built a tennis court in our garden and this is when she fell in love with the sport. She has been a member of the Russian junior tennis team in 2019 and 2020.”

Elena told newsflash that her other children are also very good at sports.

She said: “My daughter Radmila was a seven-time Russian arm wrestling champion. My daughter Milena and son Liubomir were training in a circus team. They also like chess, computer games, drawing and singing.”

Meanwhile, Elena said that her husband Yuriy Chernykh, 36, is a weightlifting champion who is currently training Karolina at the moment.

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According to Elena, Karolina’s records include holding a 16-kilogramme (35.3 lbs) weight while standing on a bed of nails for 22 minutes, pushing a one-ton vehicle for a distance of 31 metres (101.7 feet), and standing on nails for the longest time, 1 hour, 17 minutes and 17 seconds.

The proud mum said that all the records were for 11-year-old girls and were registered with the organisation International Record Registration Agency (Interrecord).

Interrecord is the largest independent organization created as the world’s first international alternative to the Guinness World Records, and which registers not only world records but also national records.

On its website it lists the records for Karolina as follows:

1. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is the record holder, at the age of 11 years holding a weight of 16 kilograms (35.27 pounds) while standing on boards with nails (Sadhu board) 22 minutes 3 seconds.
2. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 set a world record by making 702 turns on its axis in 15 minutes.
3. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 is the holder of the record for the longest rotation time around her axis. Registered time: 15 minutes
4. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 set a record pushing a car weighing 1,025 kilograms (2,260 pounds) to a distance of 31 meters (101.7 feet).
5. Carolina Chernykh (Russia), is a champion at the age of 11, having made 323 army jerks of a kettlebell weighing 6 kilograms (13.2 pounds) in 12 minutes.
6. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is the record holder, at the age of 11, lifting a barbell weighing 50 kilograms (110.2 pounds) while standing on nails.
7. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 set a world record by pushing up with an emphasis on the back with an additional weight of 45 kilograms (147.6 pounds).
8. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 set a record by making 50 bar presses weighing 20 kilograms in a lying position in 1 minute.
9. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is a record holder, at the age of 11, having completed 170 weight presses weighing 6 kilograms (13.22 pounds) in 5 minutes, standing on nails.

10. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 is a champion, raising her legs 50 times in a headstand.
11. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is a record holder, at the age of 11 years, having completed 23 repetitions of the exercise “Turkish rise” with a weight of 6 kilograms (13.22 pounds).
12. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is the record holder, at the age of 11 years towing a car weighing 1,025 kilograms (2,260 pounds) at a distance of 13.5 meters (44.3 feet)
13. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 is a champion, standing on the nails for 1 hour 17 minutes 17 seconds.
14. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is the record holder, at the age of 11, having completed 50 weight presses weighing 6 kilograms (13.22 pounds) while sitting in a twine.
15. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is the record holder, at the age of 11 years, having performed 354 lifting weights with a wrist (hand pull of a weight) weighing 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) in 10 minutes.
16. Karolina Chernykh (Russia), is a champion, having received the title of Master of Sports of international class, at the age of 11 years 2 months 28 days.
17. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) is the record holder, at the age of 11 years having completed 150 roll-overs of a tire weighing 70 kilograms (154.3 pounds).
18. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 years old set a world record, standing on her head for 22 minutes 2 seconds.
19. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 set a record by making 50 bar presses weighing 20 kilograms (44.1 pounds) in a lying position in 1 minute.
20. Carolina Chernykh (Russia) at the age of 11 is a record holder, having completed 40 thrusters with a bar neck in an inverted hemisphere.

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