New world record set at mobile-phone throwing contest

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By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 21 August 2012 11:28 IST
A Finnish teenager has smashed the world record - and probably his phone - in this year's annual mobile-phone throwing contest in Finland.

Eighteen-year-old Ere Karjalainen launched a phone the "amazing" distance of 101.46 metres (332 feet 10 inches), Finnish public television network YLE said after Saturday's event.

Second place went to South African Jeremy Gallop, who threw a phone 94.67 metres.

According to contest organisers, the competition offers mobile phone users a unique opportunity to "pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by these modern equipments."

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Finland is the home of Nokia and is awash in obsolete phones, organisers said.

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"There will be no doping tests," organisers said on their English website.

"However the jury can rule out the contestant if his/her mental or physical preparedness is not adequate for full a performance."

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The event has been held in the southeastern town of Savonlinna since 2000.

 

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