Sunday, July 11, 2010
Most
consecutive back handsprings
- Chelsey Kipping sets
world record
VALMEYER, IL, USA -- Chelsey Kipping
, 13,
who has been doing gymnastics since she was 4, has completed
32 back hand springs in honor of former Mon-Clair League President
Mel Patton - setting the new world record for the Most
consecutive back handsprings
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Valmeyer's Kipping made the attempt for
the Most
consecutive back handsprings
in front of friends and
family on the field before the Mon-Clair League's Valmeyer
Mid-Summer Classic baseball tournament's championship game.
Kipping said she was going for the
record in honor of former Mon-Clair League President Mel Patton,
who was killed by a drunken driver in a head-on car collision
last August.
"I'm glad I'm doing this for Mel,"
Chelsey said. When asked how she can keep count and keep flipping
during her flurry of back hand springs, Chelsey smiled and
said "I only get dizzy after I'm done."
Chelsey practices at least nine hours
a week at Barron Gymnastics in south St. Louis County. She
likes tumbling and dance the most.
A previous unofficial completion of 26 flips
was done by another athlete.
The attempt raised more than $700
for Valmeyer's Mon-Clair Lakers baseball team and for Chelsey's
gymnastics team's trips, equipment and training expenses.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
