- May 26, 2003
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A nine-year-old Russian boy entered the Guinness Book of World Records for push-ups at a sports gym in Moscow Tuesday ? the young athlete did 9263 push-ups within six and a half hours, the Mokovsky Komsomolets tabloid reported.
With his feat, Pavel Guseinov, who is a Moscow resident, beat the former Guinness ?champ? from North Ossetia, who was the same age.
Pavel?s relatives told the newspaper that he loved doing push-ups so much that even while watching TV he?ll suddenly get on the ground and start doing them. It?s gotten to the point that his parents at times tried to keep him from working out, but the young boy just does it in secret.
During his push-up marathon, Pavel forewent one five-minute break so that he could use it later to call his mother, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.
Pavel has never formally trained at any gym, and push-ups are just a hobby that he enjoys doing.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/08/20/pushups.shtml