Guinness World Records: Why GWR Disqualified Afua Asantewaa’s Sing-A-Thon Attempt

Guinness World Records: Why GWR Disqualified Afua Asantewaa’s Sing-A-Thon Attempt

  • The GWR has clarified why Afua Asantewaa Aduonum’s over 126-hour sing-a-thon attempt was dismissed
  • On Friday, February 23, it emerged that the GWR had rejected Afua Asantewaa’s submitted evidence for her singing marathon
  • The organisation explained that she was disqualified because she reportedly failed to adhere to guidelines about rest break timings strictly

The Guinness World Records (GWR) has disclosed that Afua Asantewaa Aduonum’s sing-a-thon attempt was dismissed due to unmet guidelines around rest break rules.

This comes in response to an email request by the Ghana Business News asking the GWR about why her evidence was rejected.

GWR has clarified why Afua Asantewaa Aduonum’s over 126-hour sing-a-thon attempt was dismissed.
Guinness World Records details why Afua Asantewaa’s sing-a-thon attempt was disqualified. Photo credit: afuaasantewaasingathon.
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GWR standard guidelines

The GWR emphasised that these rules are standard across all our “longest marathon records.”

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Afua Asantewaa completed more than 126 hours in her singing marathon, which began on December 24, 2023, to December 29, 2023, in an attempt to break the 11-year-old GWR milestone in 2012 by Indian Sunil Waghmare.

She commented on the disqualification and said she’d announce her next line of action in a few days.

“Thank you all for your love and support,” she said in a post on her Instagram account.

The GWR has stringent rules for challenging or record-setting, as well as for filing attempts. Applicants must rigorously adhere to the guidelines by following the step-by-step procedures to avoid rejection.

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Afua Asantewaa and her husband recount how they met

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Relatedly, YEN.com.gh recalls reporting that Ghanaian journalist and entrepreneur Afua Asantewaa Aduonum and her husband, Kofi Aduonum, recounted how they met in 2013 and became friends until 2016.

During an interview with AJ Akuoko-Sarpong on TV3’s Love Brewed, the Guinness World Records (GWR) sing-a-thon star disclosed their first encounter was in her husband’s office.

Afua Asantewaa recalled she had just started searching for a job in her husband’s office when he met her at the reception.

Source: YEN.com.gh

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.