Bhubaneswar: Sachin Behera from Nuapada district of Odisha has achieved another feat to register his name for the second time in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Twenty-year-old Sachin, son of Laxmi Prasad Behera and Arati Behera, from Lakra village under Boden block of Nuapada district has broke the record of Pakistan’s Muhammad Rashid.
Rashid had set the record of performing most (178) full contact knee strikes wearing 5 kg ankle weights using alternate legs in three minutes (male) on 21 June 2020.
Sachin broke the record by performing 204 knee strikes in three minutes. For this achievement, he had worked hard for 10 hours a day and worked tirelessly for many months.
At an event in Bhubaneswar, Sachin tied 5 kg weight on his ankles and hit knee pad at chest level 204 times in just three minutes, breaking the record set by Rashid and setting a record in his own name.
He thanked Tirupati Panigrahi, Principal of Hi-Tech, and Shantanu Mohapatra, Chairman of Navajyoti Junior Science College, for his achievements. In addition, Sachin has dedicated all his achievements to his parents.
Sachin had in 2019, registered a record in the Guinness Book of World Records for striking an object 137 times with two knees in a minute.