Guinness World Records Archives - the Lithuania Tribune

Rumeysa Gelgi recives certificate of the tallest living woman in the world in October 2021 from Guinness World Records

Greetings to Lithuania from the World’s Tallest Woman

January 5, 2022 Lithuania Tribune 0

Standing at 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in), the world’s tallest woman talks about her experience using a wheelchair and sends her greetings to the people of Lithuania According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s tallest […]

Most overhead log lifts in one minute by Žydrūnas Savickas

Lithuania’s strongest man Savickas beats Game of Thrones ‘the Mountain’ in log lifting contest

May 2, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s strongest man and the 2014 world’s strongest man Žydrūnas Savickas has beaten Thor Bjornsson, ‘the Mountain” in Game of Thrones in an astonishing Guinness World Records contest to break the world record for log-lifting. […]

Artists hope “Lithuanian cent room” to be listed in Guinness Book of Records

February 23, 2015 BNS 0

Artists of Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, hope that the room lined with Lithuanian cent coins in a local library will be listed in the Guinness Book of Records. […]

Lithuanian fire fighter runs across United States in record time

August 22, 2014 BNS 0

A Lithuanian fire fighter has run across the United States from the western to the eastern coast. Aidas Girdzijauskas, 42, finished in New York on Friday night, according to Lithuania’s Fire and Rescue Department. […]

Zapad 2013 Russian military 'lands' on the shores of Kaliningrad

Antanaitis: ‘The Russians will want to test us’

September 16, 2025 0

“First of all, these exercises are intended to demonstrate their power. The Russians are beginning to appear to the world and NATO as a weak link, a weak state. The Russians need to flex their […]

At the border – “Dragon Teeth,” above their heads – smuggling balloons: they told how Lithuania is preparing

September 8, 2025 0

With the joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad military exercises approaching, the Lithuanian army and border guards are preparing for all possible scenarios. It becomes clear when visiting towns in the Vilnius district near the border with Belarus, […]

The Russian language dilemma in Vilnius: which way forward?

August 25, 2025 0

Is there too much Russian spoken in Vilnius? Over the past year, many Vilnius residents have responded to this increasingly common question by saying that it is an indisputable fact, lrytas.lt writes in its editorial Laiko […]