Largest Piggyback Race

How about the idea to carry someone on your back and then run a race? While some of you may take it as a challenge others may feel that could get the going hard. This could well test your perseverance and athletic skills to run and get there. It a an upfront task considering that  you need to balance yourself too at the same time bear the person’s weight whom you are carrying on your back. Here we have a lot of enthusiastic participants who took it upon themselves to hold  their kids and pals on their back and take the 100 meter ride.

And the organizers went on to create just another history . True to their names History Maker Foundation  got 123 pairs (Piggy backing pairs)  ie a total of 326 persons to run the 100 meter  course in the Lower  Castle Park.

While running if anyone falls or loses balance in the process then they are termed disqualified.  The previous record for the Largest piggyback race counted to 296 participants  and was achieved by Diesel  at Allen gardens in United Kingdom.

330 persons started to run but however two of them fell down to only move out of the event. Anna Pancaldi from History Maker Foundation said that  they were absolutely thrilled after setting the new benchmark.

 The inspiration for the record attempt came from a family photo of Joey Pancaldi giving his sister Charity a piggyback.  When Pancaldo died in a mountaineering accident the family  set up the History maker foundation to fund trips  for the disabled and disadvantaged children to the Compass Christian Centre in Perthshire.

It is a real fun to see the runners run as fast as they can and watch the people sitting on the backs beam with excitement.

The proceeds collected would benefit the disabled children. And it was really heartwarming to see so many people coming together to perform the race to raise money for a philantrophic purpose.

The largest piggyback race counted to 123 piggyback pairs (326 persons) set by History Maker Foundation at Colchester, United Kingdom on October 8, 2011.