Nigerian massage therapist Joyce Ijeoma’s ambitious quest to break the Guinness World Record for the Longest Massage on Different People ended in failure after she collapsed while in the process. The incident was captured by one of tiktok users who was recording the whole attempt she was making.
Joyce Ijeoma, a young lady from Nigeria collapsed at lekki area of Lagos where the event was being carried out. She had set out to break 72 hours of nonstop massage on Different individuals.
This could see her become the first person to do so, unfortunately she didn’t manage after she collapsed on Tuesday morning after she had done 50 hours and was just 19 hours away from setting a new world. Immediately she collapsed, a female assistant is seen stepping up to help her while another one gave her water to try and revive her from unconsciousness.
The previous record is being held by Alastair Galpin, a south African who set the record in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The event too place in 2015 which saw Alastair Galpin complete the task in 25 hours and 4 minutes
Her attempt comes few weeks after Nigerian lady hilda baci broke the record for longest cooking ever done by an individual, hildah Baci cooked for 100hrs even though the Guinness world record gave her 93hrs 11 minutes, explaining that she took extra minutes in one of her breaks at the start of attempting the challenge.
Confirming on their twitter official page, guiness world record also revealed that their tweet confirming hildah’s new cooking record became the best performing tweet of all time on their page.