Circus artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep (Photo: Ngo Tran Hai An/Vietnam+)Hanoi (VNA) – Circus artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep on February 3 (Vietnam time) set a new head-to-head balancing walk plus blindfold record in Milan,Italy.
They walked the 40-cm wide and 10-m longsurface and climbed up and down 10 steps in 1 minute and 55 seconds.
The brothers madethe record at their first perfomance so they did not need to do it again.
They walked the 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface and climbed up and down 10 steps in 1 minute and 55 seconds.
Co, 34 years old, and Nghiep, 38 years old, said that the record making at this time will amilestone that closes their successful career.
In 2021, the acrobat brothers set a new world record inhead-to-head balancing in Catalonia, Spain.
The Vietnamese artists, with Nghiep balancing atop Co's head, climbed 100 stairsin 53 seconds at Girona Cathedral, the same venue where they settheir previous record of 90 steps in 52 seconds in 2016.
Co started circus training when he was four, while Nghiepbegan at five. The two went professional in 1999. Their head-to-head balancingact got them into the top three finalists on Britain’s Got Talent in 2018.
Quoc Co, Quoc Nghiep pose for a picture with certificate from the Guinness World Records.The Guinness World Records invited Vietnamese acrobatbrothers Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep to perform in a head-to-headbalancing act in the northern Italian city of Milan this February in an attemptto set a new world record.
Quoc Nghiep and his brother Quoc Co, who are widely known as Giang Brothers, have accepted an invitation from theGuinness World Records Organisation to go to Milan, Italy to set a new recordon February 1-7, 2023./.
