Snuffing candles: TN youth creates a new Guinness record



Ramanathapuram (TN), May 10, A 21-year old youth from this district of Tamil Nadu has created a new Guinness record by blowing off 151 candles in a single breath.

V Sankaranarayanan, a native of Velipattinam, who performed the feat in January last, has received the certificate from the Guinness Book of World Record, which was handed over to him by District Collector A Kishorekumar at a function recently.
 

Sankaranarayanan bettered the record held by David Lamy of France, who extinguished flame of 117 candles at a time in 2001.

An expert in controlling his breathe, an art that he learnt from his yoga master, Sankaranarayanan says "it is difficult to blow even 20 candles in a single breath. I practised breathe exercises to achieve this." "I practised for at least six months increasing the number of candles slowly," he said. PTI