Talent
By: Harmohan Singh Walia
70 years old Manjit Singh is a strongman. He belongs to Mahilpur village near Hoshiarpur (Punjab). He moved to Leicestershire (UK) in 1977. He holds a number of Guinness World Records for feats of strength concerned with pulling large obstacles. Manjit has recently appeared in the third series of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and stunned the audience with his talent. On his ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ audition, he blew into and burst a hot water bottle, before pulling a minivan with his ears.
Manjit Singh
An Iron Man
Manjit, the Iron man was in Sydney and he pulled a van in Glenwood Gurdwara with his ears in front of about 500 people including children. He is a serial breaker and setter of Guinness World Records and at last count is noted as holding 31, including pulling an empty double-decker bus over 55 feet with his teeth, pulling a double-decker with 54 passengers on board with one hand for a distance of 180 feet and pulling a similar bus with 30 people aboard for 256 feet using only his ponytail, using his ears to lift 85 kg and hauling an 8 tonne mobile library for 1800 cm. In 1995 he pulled a 203,000-pound Vulcan bomber for 15.24 cm using a harness round his body. Manjit Singh is the Director of a security
company in UK, he set up in 1998. He also raised charitable donations for a small sports and fitness school Manjit plans to build for the poor children of Mahilpur, his native village near the city of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, through his feats of strength. His charity is called the Manjit Fitness Academy. He also appeared on the Jay Leno Show in LA where he lifted Miss USA with his ears. He has been on Sony TV ‘Entertainment ke liey khuch bhi karega’ where he picked Imran Khan film actor with his hair. In July 2011 he managed to lift 14 kg with his eye socket setting a new world record for the Guinness Book. Download Our App
MARCH I 2019
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