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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Katie Cunningham

‘We’ll have done it first’: what it takes to set a new Guinness World Record

Guinness World Record holder Sruthy Saseendran holds her framed Guinness World Record certificate and some of the palm cards she used while practicing.
Guinness World Record holder Sruthy Saseendran can now recite 104 airport codes in one minute, nine more than her official record. Photograph: Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/The Guardian

Ever since she was a little girl, Sruthy Saseendran wanted to “achieve something remarkable” – something that would earn her a place in the record books. But growing up in what she describes as a traditional Indian family, that dream had to take a backseat to more conventional markers of success: university, marriage, career.

Decades later – after she had married, become a mother and taken a job as a business analyst in Melbourne – she felt the itch return. It was time to do something for herself. So she embarked on a personal challenge: to set a Guinness World Record.

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