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Bence Kővári, a pool player from Nyíregyháza (northeastern Hungary), has broken another Guinness record. Last year, he launched a ball that spun on its axis for 47.13 seconds after impact without hitting a wall, breaking French trick shooter Florian Kohler’s 2018 world record of 42.20 seconds. However, he will have to wait a little longer for the new Guinness World Record to be officially adjudicated, reports szon.hu, the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County News Portal.
After breaking his first world record, Bence Kővári has considered pursuing pool at a more serious level due to fortunate circumstances and hopes to become a two-time Guinness World Record holder soon. The player receives a lot of support and is provided with a court and equipment to practice. These and his personal motivation are the reasons why Bence Kővári decided to attempt a second record.
As before, he wanted to break Florian “Venom” Kohler’s record, although this is not surprising, as the French holds all but two of the pool trick shot world records and is the current world champion.
The Nyíregyháza player’s new goal was to show the longest jump shot: to do this, he has to jump the ball from one of the billiard tables so that it lands as far away as possible on a table set up parallel to it, and in the furthest middle pocket. Only the distance between the tables matters here. The previous record was 2.76 meters, and
the Nyíregyháza record was set when the tables were 3.01 meters apart.
During the practice and record attempts, the 33-year-old broke three of his fingers and damaged several tools, and even had to stop for three months because he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, which led to nine days in hospital.
However, on August 15, the official record attempt was made in the presence of two witnesses. There was Gergő Almási, who has judged at the Hungarian Snooker Gala several times, and László Kun, multiple Hungarian champion of the carom billiards. The experiment was a close-knit group, with twelve people in total, including the record holder, at the site,
where the world’s biggest jump was recorded in less than ten minutes.
Bence Kővári is very confident that soon, after receiving the official papers, he will be able to call himself a two-time Guinness World Record holder.
Via szon.hu; Featured image via Pexels