Heaviest train pulled

Age Restriction: Applications for this record title will only be accepted if the applicant is 16 years of age or over.

Juraj Barbaric (Slovakia) single-handedly pulled a 20-car freight train weighing 1,000 tonnes (2.2 million lb) a distance of 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) along a railway track in Kosice, Slovakia on 1 June 1999. Despite being acknowledged repeatedly as one of the strongest men in the world, human locomotive Juraj 'Duri' Barbaric had some doubts before his record-breaking train pull. Wet weather had complicated his eight-month training program, with the result that each weekly practice session on the tracks was completely different. 'One day I pulled 3m (10ft), then 10cm (4in), and some days not a millimeter,' he said afterwards. It wasn't until two days before he set the record that he was certain he was going ahead, and even then, he invited only members of the press and railway workers to witness the event, in case of failure. On the day he warmed up by pulling 300 tonnes for 3m (10ft), then 900 tonnes for 2.95m (9.6ft). When asked if pulling these trains would tire him out, he replied that the pressure helped to put his body 'in balance' and that his training had shown that this was the best way. After his final pull - 20 freight cars full of scrap metal weighing that's one million kilograms or 2,2 million pounds - Juraj lay exhausted on the tracks before telling reporters that it was to be his last train pull: in future, he plans to focus on aircraft.