Charlie O'Brien finished his swing in 33 hours and 11 minutes, beating the previous record held by Aimee Pivott (New Zealand) by 1 hour and 9 minutes. Photo / Paul Taylor
Charlie O'Brien finished his swing in 33 hours and 11 minutes, beating the previous record held by Aimee Pivott (New Zealand) by 1 hour and 9 minutes. Photo / Paul Taylor
Taradale's Charlie O'Brien is potentially a world-class swinger.
Maybe even the best in the world.
Paperwork, however, appears not to be his speciality.
More than five months after battling through motion sickness and pain to seemingly break the world record for continuous swinging, O'Brien still doesn't hold the record.
Guinness World Records has yet to rule on the record's legitimacy because O'Brien, who finally jumped off the Taradale Park swing 33 hours and 11 minutes after sitting his backside down on it in April, has yet to send in the proof that he broke the record.
Charlie O'Brien is yet to claim his world swinging record.
Guinness World Records needs his paper work, as well as the footage compiled throughout the record attempt, to confirm if he actually did beat fellow Kiwi Aimee Pivott's record by 1 hour and 9 minutes.
His friend and helpful organiser of the event Kate Shellard said O'Brien had not sent in any information to try to make the record official.
She said she remained eager for him to do so.
O'Brien, did not want to talk about the record attempt when Hawke's Bay Today contacted him.
Back in April he captured the attention of not just New Zealand but other parts of the globe as thousands tuned in to watch his marathon swing.
Hundreds also visited him during the day down at the swings at Taradale Park to rally him on.
Current world record holder Pivott, from Pukekohe, speculated a few weeks after the attempt that the record might not be legitimate, given O'Brien had taken a five-minute break every hour.
The mum-of-two beat an existing record of 31 hours, set by a Canadian in 2008, and said she had to do it the hard way, fracturing her pelvis in four places during the record swing, as she raised money for a liberty wheelchair swing.
O'Brien said at the time he shouldn't have to deduct the five-minute breaks from his total time.
