Soldiers Smash Vehicle Pull World Record

Troops from 3 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps have broken a Guinness World Record for the furthest vehicle pull in 12 hours by a team.

The soldiers from Dalton Barracks in Abingdon hauled a van, weighing nearly 4,000lbs, a distance of 76.028 km.

In doing so, they smashed the previous record of 8.05 km.

Captain Jonathan Kinahan said: "It's been emotional... I think [it's] a lot more difficult than we originally thought it would be.

"It was hard when it was dark, it was hard, it was cold, miserable.

"When the sun came up, things started to change a little bit for the better - we could actually see our surroundings which was nice.

"It's been a long, long night but thankfully now it's over.

"As for the van, I never want to see it ever again, ever again!"

The soldiers swapped pulling duties every 20 minutes and were on the move from 22:00 last Wednesday to 09:45 the next morning.  

The finish line was Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire where they were named world record holders and were presented with a certificate.

Official Guinness World Records Adjudicator, Glenn Pollard, told Forces News: "They could have stopped at 8.05 km and got the record.

"But talking to the team, as I said in my presentation, they wanted to absolutely smash it, and I think they've actually done that."