13 world records you didn’t know Croatia holds

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clear: both;'> <amp-auto-ads type="adsense" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8416422562059239"> </amp-auto-ads></div> </div> <p><strong>Croatia has a treasure trove of remarkable achievements that have secured its place in the Guinness Book of World Records.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></p><div class='code-block code-block-1' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <amp-ad width="320" height="280" type="doubleclick" layout="fixed" data-slot="/88449691/croatiaweek.com/amp_content_v1" data-multi-size="300x250" data-multi-size-validation="false" > </amp-ad></div>  <div class="quads-location quads-ad1" id="quads-ad1" style="float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;">  <div id='content_first' > <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('content_first'); }); </script> </div> </div> <p>We uncover just 13 world records owned by Croatia which you may not know. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <h2>1. Longest Strudel</h2> <p>The old record for the longest line of strudels was 1,479.38 m (4,853 ft 7 in) achieved by The Green Heart of Croatia (Croatia), in Jaškovo, Croatia, on 6 September 2015. Croatian bakers ‘Mlin i pekare’ in Sisak, which is southeast of the Croatian capital Zagreb, broke that record in June when they made an apple strudel which measured 1,762,45 metres in Sisak.</p> <div id="attachment_78526" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-78526" class="size-full wp-image-78526" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PXL_210619_25114868.jpg?x55390" alt="Strudel croatia" width="1600" height="1066" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PXL_210619_25114868.jpg 1600w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PXL_210619_25114868-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PXL_210619_25114868-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PXL_210619_25114868-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PXL_210619_25114868-151x100.jpg 151w" sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-78526" class="wp-caption-text">Record apple strudel (Photo: Nikola Cutuk/PIXSELL)</p></div> <h2>2. Fastest speed in reverse</h2> <p>Rimac Nevera from Croatia officially holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed in reverse.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Nevera was driven to a top speed of 171.34mph (275.74km/h) in reverse at the Automotive Testing Papenburg facility in Germany.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><div class='code-block code-block-2' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <amp-ad width="320" height="280" type="doubleclick" layout="fixed" data-slot="/88449691/croatiaweek.com/amp_content_v2" data-multi-size="300x250" data-multi-size-validation="false" > </amp-ad></div> <div id="attachment_136237" style="width: 2010px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-136237" class="size-full wp-image-136237" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5.jpg?x55390" alt="(Photo: Rimac Group)" width="2000" height="1333" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5.jpg 2000w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nevera-time-attack-5-151x100.jpg 151w" sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" /><p id="caption-attachment-136237" class="wp-caption-text">(Photo: Rimac Group)</p></div> <h2>3. Largest flag flown on a personal watercraft</h2> <p>On the picturesque waters of Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard in Quebec, Canada, Jason Kovac, Gabriel Quesnel, Dominic Scotti, Jeremie Pozywiak, and Alexandre Portugais claimed the world record for the largest flag flown on a personal watercraft (PWC).</p> <div id="attachment_139284" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139284" class="size-full wp-image-139284" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-7.jpg?x55390" alt="Croatian flag becomes world’s largest flag ever to fly on a jet ski " width="827" height="478" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-7.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-7-300x173.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-7-768x444.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /><p id="caption-attachment-139284" class="wp-caption-text">Croatian flag becomes world’s largest flag ever to fly on a jet ski (Photo credit: Jason Kovac)</p>  <div class="quads-location quads-ad2" id="quads-ad2" style="float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;">  <div id='content_second' > <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('content_second'); }); </script> </div> </div> </div> <p>The record-breaking Croatian flag, a symbol of national pride, measured an impressive 39.73 square meters (427.75 square feet). The flag wasn’t just waved on any ordinary flagpole—it was hoisted on a giant flagpole attached to the back of a jet ski.</p> <div id="attachment_139289" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139289" class="size-full wp-image-139289" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-8.jpg?x55390" alt="Croatian flag becomes world’s largest flag ever to fly on a jet ski " width="827" height="1241" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-8.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-8-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-8-682x1024.jpg 682w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jason-kovac-8-768x1152.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /><p id="caption-attachment-139289" class="wp-caption-text">(Photo credit:Isabella Kara and Jason Kovac)</p></div> <h2>4. Largest Slanina</h2> <p>The new record slanina (pancetta) weighed 194 kg was made by a team of four friends from Valpovo in Slavonia. The slanina was presented at the spring festival in Karanac in April 2019 at the ‘Spring vasar’ in Karanac.</p> <p>According to Guinness World Records, the largest slanina (pancetta) in the world was previously 150.5 kg, It was made in Italy and presented at the town’s Old Saviours Day Festival in 2002.</p> <div id="attachment_75661" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-75661" class="size-full wp-image-75661" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slanina.jpg?x55390" alt="" width="1600" height="1066" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slanina.jpg 1600w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slanina-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slanina-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slanina-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Slanina-151x100.jpg 151w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-75661" class="wp-caption-text">(Photo credit: Davor Javorovic/PIXSELL)</p></div> <h2>5. Longest Neck Tie</h2> <p>A necktie measuring 808 m (2,650 ft) was made by members of the Academia Cravatica organisation. It took five days to complete and was tied around the arena in Pula, Croatia on 18 October 2003. Widest part – 25m. Narrowest part – 8m.</p><div class='code-block code-block-3' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <amp-ad width="320" height="280" type="doubleclick" layout="fixed" data-slot="/88449691/croatiaweek.com/amp_content_v3" data-multi-size="300x250" data-multi-size-validation="false" > </amp-ad></div> <h2>6. Longest Sarma</h2> <p>In September 2018 at the Zeljarijada festival in Vidovec in the northern Croatian Varaždin County the record for the longest sarma was set when a gigantic 1,333-metre sarma was made.</p>  <div class="quads-location quads-ad3" id="quads-ad3" style="float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;"> <div id="content_third"></div> </div> <p>Among other bits and pieces, there were 1,200 cabbage heads (22,000 leaves) to be exact, over 300 kilograms of boneless beef, 410 kilograms of boneless pork, 75 kilograms of dried sausages and 105 kilograms of rice.</p> <div id="attachment_67504" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67504" class="size-full wp-image-67504" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sarma_Zeljarijada2018.jpg?x55390" alt="sarma croatia" width="1600" height="1066" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sarma_Zeljarijada2018.jpg 1600w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sarma_Zeljarijada2018-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sarma_Zeljarijada2018-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sarma_Zeljarijada2018-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sarma_Zeljarijada2018-151x100.jpg 151w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-67504" class="wp-caption-text">World’s longest sarma presented in Vidovec (Photo: Vjeran Zganec Rogulja/PIXSELL)</p></div> <h2>7. Pushing a Car the Furtherest in 24 hours </h2> <p>In April 2019 in Zagreb, Tomislav Lubenjak broke the Guinness World Record for pushing a car the furtherest in 24 hours by an individual. He pushed a smart car and driver 106,938 km. In the process he also broke the world record for pushing a car by two people which was 95.07 km, set by Macedonians Aleksandar Chekorov and Alexsandar Smilkov.</p> <div id="attachment_141918" style="width: 1610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-141918" class="size-full wp-image-141918" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/car-record-croatia.jpeg?x55390" alt="" width="1600" height="1200" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/car-record-croatia.jpeg 1600w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/car-record-croatia-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/car-record-croatia-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/car-record-croatia-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/car-record-croatia-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-141918" class="wp-caption-text">Tomislav during his world record push (Photo: Press)</p></div> <h2>8. First own goal scored in a FIFA World Cup final</h2> <p>The first own goal scored in a FIFA World Cup final was scored by Croatia’s striker Mario Mandžukić during the Croatia vs France final Russia in the World Cup Final in 2018.</p><div class='code-block code-block-4' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <amp-ad width="320" height="280" type="doubleclick" layout="fixed" data-slot="/88449691/croatiaweek.com/amp_content_v4" data-multi-size="300x250" data-multi-size-validation="false" > </amp-ad></div> <p>Mandžukić, who also scored for his side in the match, made it 1-0 to France when his header defending a free-kick went into the back of the net.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <div id="attachment_94807" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-94807" class="size-full wp-image-94807" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mario_Mandžukic.jpg?x55390" alt="ac Milan sign Mario mandzukic" width="827" height="478" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mario_Mandžukic.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mario_Mandžukic-300x173.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mario_Mandžukic-768x444.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /><p id="caption-attachment-94807" class="wp-caption-text">Mario Mandzukic in the final against France (Photo: Антон Зайцев/Soccer.ru/CC)</p></div> <h2>9. Largest sailing ship</h2> <p>The Golden Horizon, constructed by Croatian shipyard Brodosplit in Split, is a colossal five-mast barque weighing 8,770 tons, and holds the title of the world’s largest sailing vessel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>It measures 162.22 by 18.6 meters and is equipped with two diesel-electric engines, enabling it to cruise at 16 knots (29.63 km/h or 18.41 mph). With 36 sails spanning 26,000 square feet, the ship accommodates 272 passengers and operates with a crew of 159.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <div id="attachment_110617" style="width: 1930px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-110617" class="size-full wp-image-110617" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon.jpg?x55390" alt="World's largest square-rigged cruise ship departs shipyard in Croatia where it was built" width="1920" height="1277" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon.jpg 1920w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon-768x511.jpg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/split-golden-horizon-151x100.jpg 151w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /><p id="caption-attachment-110617" class="wp-caption-text">(Photo: Brodosplit)</p></div> <h2>10. Longest Theatrical Run – Same Cast</h2> <p>The record for the longest run of a theatrical play with the same cast is for the play ‘Exercises in Style’ performed by Pero Kvrgic and Lela Margitic and directed by Tomislav Radic (all Croatia) from January 1970 to present. The opening night of this play was on 19 January 1968, but in 1970 the leading actress role passed from Mia Oremovic to Lela Margitic. There are no exact dates of this fact but it was on January 1970. All the performances, from 1968, have taken place in Zagreb.</p><div class='code-block code-block-5' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <amp-ad width="320" height="280" type="doubleclick" layout="fixed" data-slot="/88449691/croatiaweek.com/amp_content_v5" data-multi-size="300x250" data-multi-size-validation="false" > </amp-ad></div> <div id="attachment_102877" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102877" class="size-full wp-image-102877" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pero-Kvrgic-passes-away.jpg?x55390" alt="Pero Kvrgic passes away" width="827" height="478" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pero-Kvrgic-passes-away.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pero-Kvrgic-passes-away-300x173.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pero-Kvrgic-passes-away-768x444.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /><p id="caption-attachment-102877" class="wp-caption-text">Pero Kvrgić (Photo: Dramsko kazalište Gavella/Public domain/CC)</p></div> <h2>11. World’s smallest commemorative coin </h2> <p>The Croatian Mint in Sveta Nedelja, Croatia, created the world’s smallest commemorative coin, with a diameter of just 1.99 mm, on June 27, 2024. <span class="s1">The gold coin is named ‘Hum’ after the smallest Croatian town. </span></p> <div id="attachment_128639" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128639" class="size-full wp-image-128639" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Image-photo-Hum-close-up-600x600-1.jpg?x55390" alt="Croatian Mint mints world's smallest gold coin" width="827" height="630" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Image-photo-Hum-close-up-600x600-1.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Image-photo-Hum-close-up-600x600-1-300x229.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Image-photo-Hum-close-up-600x600-1-768x585.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /><p id="caption-attachment-128639" class="wp-caption-text">(Photo credit: Branimir Kralj)</p></div> <h2>12. L<span class="s1">ongest underwater walk</span></h2> <p>Vitomir Maričić of Croatia set the record for the longest underwater walk by a male on a single breath, covering a distance of 107 meters (351 feet 0.5 inches) in Opatija, Primorsko-Goranska Zupanija, Croatia, on September 17, 2021.</p> <div id="attachment_85836" style="width: 837px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-85836" class="size-full wp-image-85836" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vitomir-pripreme-1.jpg?x55390" alt="Croatian diver Vitomir Maričić breaks Guinness World Record for longest underwater walk" width="827" height="478" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vitomir-pripreme-1.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vitomir-pripreme-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Vitomir-pripreme-1-768x444.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /><p id="caption-attachment-85836" class="wp-caption-text">Vitomir Maričić (Photo credit: Vladimir Soic)</p></div> <h2>13. L<span class="s1">ongest distance covered on a single standard tank of fuel</span></h2> <p>The longest distance covered on a single standard tank of fuel is 2,545.80 km (1,581.88 miles), achieved by a Volkswagen Passat 1.6 TDI BlueMotion during an event organized by ‘Auto Motor i Sport’ (Croatia). The vehicle was driven by Marko Tomac and Ivan Cvetković, both from Croatia, on Croatian roads between June 27 and 30, 2011. The average fuel consumption during the attempt was 3.08 liters per 100 km (91.71 UK mpg, 76.37 US mpg).</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-148212" src="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/guiness-record.jpg?x55390" alt="Guiness Record fuel tank Croatia " width="827" height="551" srcset="https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/guiness-record.jpg 827w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/guiness-record-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/guiness-record-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.croatiaweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/guiness-record-151x100.jpg 151w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px" /></p> <p> </p> <h2> </h2>  <div class="quads-location quads-ad6" id="quads-ad6" style="float:none;margin:0px 0 0px 0;text-align:center;">  <div id='croatiaweek_below_content' > </div> </div> <div class='code-block code-block-6' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: 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