Armenia athlete pulls train wagon with a finger in world record bid

Two-time World Men Powerlifting champion, record holder of Armenian Book of Records (Dyutsaznagirk) and  Honored Master of Sports Varazdat Hakobyan has set a new world record on October 11, pulling  a train coach using a rope clenched in his middle finger.

As the South Caucasus Railway CJSC reported, Hakobyan hauled 3 meters forward the coach weighting 23 tones at the railway station in Sevan.

The feat was acknowledged as a new record for the heaviest weight pulled with middle finger based on the accounts of the special commission members.