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Paddleboarding Pooches Break Three World Records
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By Ben Hooper
Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The 2025 U.K. Dog Surfing Championships in Dorset, England, saw three differ- ent Guinness World Records being broken by paddleboarding pooches.
Mark Reeves, the organiz- er of the annual event at Branksome Dene Chine, decided this year's Dog Surfing Championships would include world record attempts for the most dog/human pairs paddle- boarding simultaneously, the fastest 50-meter pad- dleboarding by a human/dog pair and the most dogs on a single paddleboard.
ken by 10 human-canine pairings competing in a 50-meter (164-foot) pad- dleboard race.
The race ended in a tie between two teams: Matthew Jenkins and his 2-year-old shih-tzu, Gigi; and Ben Gray with his "boarder" collie, Boo. The two men and their dogs now co-hold the record for the fastest 50-meter pad- dleboarding by a human/dog pair.
The third record proved to be the most complicated, but organizers were able to wrangle 12 dogs onto a single paddleboard, and they remained in place long enough to successful- ly earn the title.
The first record was bro-
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