Darine Barbar poses with her Guinness World Records certificate.
Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
Darine Barbar, an inspirational amputee athlete who just made history by breaking the Guinness World Records title for longest Samson's chair/static wall sit (female) achieving a total of 2 minutes and 8.24 seconds.
Darine has an above knee left leg amputation and lost her leg at the age of 15 to bone cancer.
She had another accident in 2013 when she broke her left hip where her amputation is and had to have two screws in the hip.
The record broken on Friday marks the launch of the Guinness World Records Impairment Records Initiative, which sees the introduction of an initial twenty-three classification categories for physical, intellectual and visual impairments.
The classifications, created with the support of external experts, will be applicable across all sports, strength and ‘journey’ records.
"The project has been a number of years in the making, so to see it go live with the announcement of three fantastic new record-holders is incredibly humbling. We really hope that in launching this project and crowning new record holders, we will encourage many more people with physical, intellectual or visual impairments to get in touch and attempt a Guinness World Records title in the future.”