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The Hindu - Indian Newspapers in English Language from eight editions.

TN youth enters Guinness book

Ramanathapuram (TN) (PTI): 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.