Man stands on one foot for 12 hours<\/p>\n
SEMARANG, Central Java (JP): M. Ikhlas of Indonesia improved
\non his standing-on-one-foot world record yesterday when he
\nmanaged more than 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Ikhlas, a Jakarta resident, was able to stand on one foot for
\n12 hours, 12 minutes and 12 seconds. He broke the world record in
\nAugust last year when achieved 9 hours, 2 minutes and 50 seconds.<\/p>\n
Ikhlas defeated 70 other participants from Germany, Belgium,
\nIndia, Japan, Australia, Netherlands, and Indonesia. Foreign
\ncontestants lasted barely two hours and most blamed the tropical
\nheat for their failure<\/p>\n
The second and the third places were won respectively by
\nMarsid and Ignatius Arief H., both from Semarang. Marsid endured
\n10 hours, 59 minutes, and 27 seconds and Arief 10 hours, 29
\nminutes, and 47 seconds.<\/p>\n
Ikhlas, downing 25 bottles of drinking water during the
\ncontest, said that the key to his success was hard exercise. \"I
\nwon the contest because of God's blessing and also support from
\nmy parents,\" he told the Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Ikhlas received Rp 2.2 million (US$1,019) prize for winning
\nthe contest and an additional Rp 1 million for breaking the new
\nworld record.<\/p>\n
Ikhlas was the top seed in the contest organized by Jaya
\nSuprana, the Chairman of the Indonesian Museum of Records, at the
\nSimpanglima shopping complex. (har\/imn)<\/p>",
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