Latakia-SANA
Taekwondo player Mohamed Faydou aspires to more world records after entering the Guinness Book of Records by breaking the world record for lateral push-ups, recording 93 lateral push-ups in one minute.
Faydou, 20, said in a statement to SANA’s sports reporter: “He was attached to Taekwondo when he was seven years old and won many shining medals in the governorate and republic championships under the supervision of his coach, Esper Elias, during the past ten years, to achieve his ambition in the world by breaking the world records registered with push-ups.
Faydou added: The will to challenge with self and determination motivated him to achieve his ambition to enter the Guinness Book of Records, as he worked out a plan to serve the idea that he had in mind by relying on strengthening the muscular structure in cooperation with his coach, pointing to the high morale behind his success and the encouragement of his coach and the fans who They accompanied him throughout the preparation period, which began two years ago.
Faydou continued: The training hours were up to ten continuous hours focused on fitness exercises, running, iron, physical strength and taekwondo, noting that his joy was great when his request for photography was approved, which allows him to submit documents and documents to the Guinness Book, and he made two attempts to break the world record with side push-ups, The first in 2020 and the second in 2021, during which he was able to break the world record registered in the name of a German player of 55 lateral compressions, recording 93 lateral compressions in one minute.
Faydou indicated that his attempt was accepted and he was officially entered into the Guinness Book of Records last March, and the new number was registered in his name and the certificate was received by the approved committee, stressing that this achievement will be an incentive for him and a starting point for achieving more achievements to break many world records.
In turn, coach Esper Elias pointed out that Faydou is the third Syrian taekwondo champion to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. He was preceded by Sami Jumaa and Abdullah Saqqati. He has an idea and ambition that he is working to achieve with them in the future, which includes developing a special training program to achieve more achievements to break world records with new moves to enter the encyclopedia Guinness again.
Elias explained that the three champions are currently training to break new world records with different movements after the approval of the special committee assigned by Guinness and providing us with the number that we must work to break to achieve more achievements, pointing out at the same time that he is ready to work to supervise and refine the talent of any athlete who has the will, determination and determination. Pai game to break new world records.
Nabil Ali