Thirty-two skaters from Shivaganga Roller Skating Academy, Belgaum and across the country created the feat by playing non-stop inline hockey for 30 hours. International referees Mayne Crow and Andrew Spongle representing Federation of International Roller Sports and chief coach of Indian Inline Hockey Team A D Sharma were present.
Inline skates (also called Rollerblades) are used for inline skating. Unlike quad skates, which have two front and two rear wheels, inline skates have two, three, four or five wheels arranged in a single line.
What is inline hockey
Inline hockey (or roller hockey) similar to ice hockey is played with inline skates. Inline
hockey is most popular in areas with indoor artificial inline hockey rinks which make it a year-round sport at the amateur, scholastic, and professional levels.
In the midst of monsoon showers, the attempt for the non-stop inline hockey record feat commenced on Tuesday at 2.25 pm, and the skaters achieved the feat on Wednesday at 3.25 pm breaking world record of 25 hours and 14 minutes and three seconds established by Townsville Inline Hockey, Australia in this category. Sharma declared that the world record was broken. Players continued to play until 8.30 pm and created a new record of 30 hours non-stop play.
Players who kept their spirits during the 30-hour long record were Amit Sharma, Gurpreet, Gurjap, Mohit Yadav, Surendar Pal Sodhi, Rajesh Singh, Babli Singh, Reekansh, Gurnazar, Prabjot, Akash, Gaurav Bhattal, Jaspreet, Atul Sharma, Kapil Gehlot, Nikhil Chindak, Aniket, Atul Sharma, Wayne Chow, Anshul Sood, Sourab Duggal, Anuradha Sood, Andra Spongle, Manpreet, Jitender Singh, Anjali Singh, Kiran Siddiqui, Ankit, Navraj and Sammeraj.