Guinness World Records disqualifies Afua Asantewaa on her second singathon attempt

Guinness World Records disqualifies Afua Asantewaa on her second singathon attempt

She announced the disqualification on social media on Thursday evening [May 8, 2025] and shared a screenshot of the response from Guinness on her attempt.

Application disqualified –

Our expert Record Managers have reviewed the evidence you provided and unfortunately this claim is not valid due to the guidelines (rules) not being met.

As stated in the guidelines:

“Rest breaks are the only point where the claimant may stop performing the activity during the attempt.”

“You are allowed 5 minutes rest for every continuously completed hour of activity.”
Activity and Rest sequence 19 shows you took a 15 minute break at 23:25 when you only had 5 minutes of rest time to use. The record attempt was therefore failed at this point. You also took 105 minutes at sequence 21 when you only had 10 minutes of accrued rest time.

We can only approve a record when all of the rules have been followed, as that is how we
ensure fairness across all record attempts.

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this claim is not valid due to the guidelines (rules) not being met.

As stated in the guidelines:

“Rest breaks are the only point where the claimant may stop performing the activity during the attempt.”

“You are allowed 5 minutes rest for every continuously completed hour of activity.”

Activity and Rest sequence 19 shows you took a 15 minute break at 23:25 when you only had 5 minutes of rest time to use. The record attempt was therefore failed at this point. You also took 105 minutes at sequence 21 when you only had 10 minutes of accrued rest time.

We can only approve a record when all of the rules have been followed, as that is how we ensure fairness across all record attempts.

We congratulate you on your efforts and hope you can understand our reasoning for the rejection.