The 2025 U.K. Dog Surfing Championships in Dorset, England, witnessed the breaking of three Guinness World Records by talented paddleboarding pooches. Event organizer Mark Reeves decided to incorporate world record attempts as part of this year’s championships, including the most dog/human pairs paddleboarding simultaneously, the fastest 50-meter paddleboarding by a human/dog pair, and the most dogs on a single paddleboard. The first record was broken by 10 human-canine pairings competing in a 50-meter race, which ended in a tie between Matthew Jenkins and his 2-year-old shih-tzu, Gigi, and Ben Gray with his “boarder” collie, Boo. These two teams now share the record for the fastest 50-meter paddleboarding by a human/dog pair. The third record proved to be the most challenging, but the organizers were able to wrangle 12 dogs onto a single paddleboard, earning them another title. (UPI)
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