10 Weird Sports From Around The World

Depending on an individual’s perspective, some sports outside professional leagues can be classified as weird. North Americans aren’t too fond of cricket and even a few South Americans haven’t even heard of hockey. The following sports go beyond the boundaries of unusual sports when it comes to rules and equipment.

Weird Sport #1. The Ultimate Test: Man v.s. Horse

If you thought the sport had anything to do with strength, then you’re wrong. The annual Man Versus Horse Marathon requires stamina and agility. Taking place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells, the marathon puts human contestants up against mounted horse contestants.

The event started in 1980, when a landlord decided to hold the event after hearing two men arguing about whether or not an individual could beat a horse in a cross country race.

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Weird Sport #2. Where Love Is The Key To Success

First introduced in Finland, wife carrying is an actual sport where male competitors race while carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle course in the fastest time. Major competitions are held in Sonkajarvi, Finland, Monona, Wisconsin and in Marquette, Michigan.

Talk about tough love.

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Weird Sport #3. Going For A Different Kind Of Swim

Even though it does seem kind of gross, bog snorkelling is a sporting event where competitors swim in a water-filled trench cut through a peat bog. Competitors must wear snorkels and flippers and can only complete the course by swimming with their flippers and not using traditional swimming techniques.

The World Bog Snorkelling Championships take place every August Bank Holiday in a dense peat bog near Llanwrtyd Wells, in Wales.

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Weird Sport #4. Putting Your Toe To Good Use

A popular activity for children, toe wrestling is now a competitive sport. The World Toe Wrestling Competition first started at a pub in Derbyshire, UK in 1976. Locals thought it would be a great idea to hold a competition where individuals lock toes together and force their opponent’s foot to the ground. The organizers applied in 1997 to get the sport included in the Olympics, but unfortunately, it was not accepted.

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Weird Sport #5. Another Use For Those Fists Of Steel

Despite not being well-renowned in the media, fistball is an old sport that’s practiced all over the world. Like tennis and volleyball, the purpose of the sport is to hit the ball with your fist or arm and place it in the opponent’s half where they won’t get to it. After passing the net, the ball may be contacted up to three times (bounces are allowed) by the five players on each team.

The sport is played indoors and outdoors and is featured in The World Games.

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Weird Sport #6. Taking Underwater Sports To The Next Level

Octopush (also known as underwater hockey) is a non-contact sport where two teams compete to maneuver a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool and into “goals”. Just like hockey but underwater, the game has actually become popular in countries like theUK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

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Weird Sport #7. Reinventing A Childhood Sport

Even though it’s not entirely unusual, the fact that there is a kickball league is fun, yet weird. The popular playground game has now become a competitive sport with the creation of the World Adult Kickball Association.

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Weird Sport #8. Combining Brains And Brawn

If you’re looking for a sport that combines using your strength as well as intelligence, then chess boxing is for you. The sport is a combination of boxing and chess with the different games alternating after each round. A match between two individuals lasts up to eleven rounds, starting with a four minute chess round and followed by two minutes of boxing.

The sport is governed by the World Chess Boxing Organization whose motto is:

“Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board”

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Weird Sport #9. Finding Out Who's Faster: You Or Cheese

Cheese rolling is probably one of the simplest sports out there. From the top of hill, a round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled and competitors chase after it. The first individual across the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins (the cheese of course).

Competitors aim to catch the rolling cheese but this rarely happens as it has a one second head start and can reach speeds up to 112 km/hr. In 1997, the cheese took a wrong turn down the hill and accidentally injured a spectator.

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Weird Sport #10. Putting Testosterone To Good Use

Facial hair can certainly make a man more masculine, but a competition? The World Beard And Moustache Championships is a biennial competition where men show off their extraordinary beards and moustaches. Categories include Dali moustache, goatee and full beard freestyle.

If only the competitors played in rock bands.

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Top Twenty Tallest Women in the world - PLUS A BONUS

Usually men are taller than women and most of them like it this way. Men tend to get very conscious about their height if they stand next to a tall female. It makes them feel small, not in control, dominated and everything that goes with it. From the other angle, women USUALLY like the man to be taller and if a girl gets very tall, it is looked at in a very bad way and effects the girls confidence in a negative manner. Now this is what usually happens, but we have a list of some pretty awesome females who are proud to known as TALL WOMEN


20. Darina Yegerova, 6'9.5", 207.0cm

She holds the record for the world's longest legs

19. Amazon ISIS, 6'9.5", 207.0cm

She now tries to wrestle men because women are not a big enough challenge for her

18. Elena Kravchenko, 6'10", 208.3cm

She is at least a head taller than everyone

17. Silvia Mesa, 6'10", 208.3cm

One of the tallest basket ball players

16. Jaana Kotova, 6'10", 208.3cm

Yet another tall basket ball player.

15. Ellen Bayer, 6'10", 208.3cm

6'10" lady with a 6'6" gentleman

14. Zorana Todorovic, 6'10.5", 209.6cm

This is what YOU will look like standing next to her.

13. Gitika Srivastava, 6'11", 210.8cm

I wonder how tall her husband is!!!

12. Gwen Bachman, 6'11", 210.8cm



11. Ulyana Semenova, 6'11", 210.8cm

She used to be the tallest basketball player in her time.



10. Lyuba Shilo, 7'0", 213.4cm

Lyuba is Ukraine's tallest woman
9. Urmila Kumari Chaudhari, 7'1", 215.9cm

I believe she is the tallest person in Nepal

8. Zainab Bibi, 7'2", 218.4cm

Zainab Bibi is now settled in the UK after getting an asylum their on grounds that her height is making her life very hard in Pakistan

7. Svetlana Singh, 7'2", 218.4cm

She is not just very tall herself, but she has the tallest baby as well.

6. Margo Dydek, 7'2", 218.4cm

Dydek is the tallest female basketball player ever to set foot on that court.

5. Maria Feliciana Santo, 7'5", 226.1cm


4. Sandy Allen, 7'7", 231.1cm

recognized as the tallest woman during her life according to Guinness World Records. She passed away in August 2008

3. Yao Defen, 7'8", 233.7cm

Her gigantism is due to a tumor in her pituitary glad which I believe releases the HGH (Human Growth Hormone). There were disputes about who was taller - Yao or Sandy.

2. Zeng Jinlian , 8'2", 248.9cm

Zeng was the tallest female ever recorded in medical history. She passed away in 1982.

1. Trijntje Keever, 8'4.4", 255.0cm

The oldest and tallest woman in recorded history. She lived from 1616 to 1633.

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BONUS - Elisany Silva

Elisany is the tallest teenager in the world. She is 14 years old and 6'9" tall. She is going to use her height in a very positive way by starting fashion modelling very soon.

7 Tallest men in the world

These 7 people are remembered in the world about their height, which make them different from other people:

Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) was a man who is the tallest person in history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow is sometimes known as the Alton Giant or Giant of Illinois because of his upbringing in Alton, Illinois.

Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m)  in height and weighed 222 kg (490 lb) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood was due to hypertrophy of his pituitary gland which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.

Robert Wadlow from the United States (1918 – 1940) was high 2 m 72 cm

Al Tomaini (1912—1962), born as Aurelio Tomaini, he claimed a height of 8′ 4½” (2.55 m); however Guinness World Records stated he was really 7′4″ (223.5 cm.), but he may have stood 7′6½” (229.9 cm.) at one time.

Weighing 356 pounds (162 kg) and wearing size 27 shoes, Al spent most of his life as a circus giant. He was working with a circus at the Great Lakes Exposition in Chicago, in 1936, when he met his future wife, Jeanie Tomaini. She was born without legs and was only 2 ft 6 in (76 cm) tall. After retiring from the circus life, he and Jeanie settled in the circus community of Giant’s Camp, Gibsonton, Florida. There he was an extraordinary community booster, donating the town’s first ambulance, served as fire chief, helped build the community hall, and for a time was president of the Chamber of Commerce. He was owner and operator of Giant’s Fish Camp, a TV repair shop, and a tourist-trailer court on the banks of the Alafia River. His death in 1962 at 50 years of age, came after extensive treatment for a pituitary tumor. He adopted his children.

Al Tomaini, (1912 – 1962) was high 2 m 55 cm

Donna Ting (born 1970 or 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a living man renowned for his stature. He was formerly listed as the world’s tallest living man according to Guinness World Records. On August 20, 2008, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, Craig Glenday, announced that the title of world’s tallest man had been returned to China’s Bao Xishun after Stadnyk refused to be measured under new guidelines, which required him to be independently measured by Guinness World Records adjudicators.

On August 8, 2007, Guinness book’s spokeswoman Amarilis Espinoza stated that in the 2008 edition of the record book, Mr Stadnyk appeared to be taller than Bao Xishun, a native of Inner Mongolia in China who stands 2.36 m (7.7 ft). Although he held the title for a few months, Stadnyk refused to be measured and was consequently denied the GWR recognition. Others have questioned the legitimacy of his record, noting that Stadnyk has never been officially measured by Guinness World Records, only by the “Ukrainian Book of Records” that says that he measures 2.54 m (8 ft 4.0 in), and that the doctor originally credited by Guinness with confirming Stadnyk’s height has denied ever measuring him.

Leonid Stadnyk of Ukraine, the high is 2 m 53 cm

Antoine Hugo was destined to go to the USA to work for the Barnum & Bailey circus, but he died on February 16th, 1914 in Mairsons-Alfort shortly before the planned voyage. After his brother’s death, Baptiste decided to leave France for the USA to replace his brother in the circus. He was admitted to the William Parker hospital in New York on 22 April 1916 wirth the diagnosis of diphtheria and died the next day (23 April 1916). A post-mortem examination was performed and published by Symmers . His height was reported as 2.59 m. (8 ft. 10 in.), which is much taller than his reported height when still alive.

Hugo, 2 m 59 cm

Henry Hite (1915 – 1972) born Henry Mullens, was a giant who was well-known in his day for making movies and personal appearances and the occasional movie that would capitalize on his height, 7ft-6¾in (2.31 m).

Henry Hite from Los Angeles (1915 – 1972) was high 2 m 31 cm

Bao Xishun (also known as Xi Shun or “The Mast”) Chinese: Bào X?shùn) (born 1951) is a herdsman from Inner Mongolia, China, who was recognized by Guinness World Records as one of the world’s tallest living men. Guinness World Records had returned the title of world’s tallest man back to him after Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk took over the title briefly. After Stadnyk refused to be measured under new guidelines, which required him to be independently measured by Guinness World Records’s adjudicators, the title was returned to Xishun.

On September 17, 2009, Turk Sultan Kosen overtook Bao Xishun as the tallest living man in the world, when he was measured by Guinness World Records, standing 2.47m (8ft 1″) tall.

Bao Xishun from Mongolia,  was high 2 m 47 cm

He trully lived in the early 1900’s. He was seven feet, six inches tall, weighed 360 pounds, and wore size 18 shoes. People loved him because of  his kindness, but also enjoyed knowing about his great strenght.

Big Gust, was high 2 m 28 cm

Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time

The richest men of all time category is a bit like a revolving door in that the leader is often supplanted. Evidently, times change and so do fortunes -- even well after death in some cases. So, let’s see who stands where. We’re looking at estimated net worth at each man’s peak (or peak to date), put in 2010 U.S. dollars through comparisons of the U.S. gross domestic product and using calculations provided by the U.S. Department of Labor -- Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Since this article is about numbers, let’s ditch the lengthy introduction and get to know who the richest men of all time are currently.

Number 10

Carlos Slim Helu (1940 - )

$60 billion

The Mexican communications industry and other interests have been kind to Carlos Slim, to say the least. It’s said that between 2005 and 2007, Slim’s worth has doubled. In that period, his fortune grew around $27 million -- daily. The reason is simple: he owns everything in Mexico. Over 200 companies are under his thumb, ranging from the aforementioned telecom to transportation, and from cigarettes to soft drinks. He’s dismissed the title of “world’s richest man” with indifference, claiming that designation isn’t his kind of competition. Whether he wants it or not, he has been designated as one of the world’s richest men of all time.

Number 9

Warren Buffett (1930 - )

$62 billion

Like many who can afford to do so, Warren Buffett doesn’t mind pursuing new acquisitions when the economy is tanking. His latest was a joint effort with Mars for a $23 billion buy of Wrigley. Still, you might get the impression that he’s not in all this for the same reasons as others. This is the man who appeared before Congress last fall and warned of the rise of “dynastic wealth,” stressing the importance of the estate tax. Buffett also earmarked $31 billion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Only the richest men of all time can donate billions.

Number 8

Sam Walton (1918 - 1992)

$62.1 billion

Sam Walton’s passing in 1992 came too soon for him to see the full potential of his Wal-Mart empire, though he was certainly successful in his lifetime. Much of it came from offering things that we take for granted today: good variety and convenient store hours, for example. He also set the stage for efficient, cost-effective central warehousing of merchandise, extending his competitive reach into smaller markets and well beyond his first store in Arkansas.

Number 7

Marshall Field (1834 - 1906)

$63.7 billion

For better or worse, the “customer is always right” philosophy began with Marshall Field. Evidently, Field never saw a little old lady try to return a 20-year-old waffle iron 19 years after its warranty expired. Either way, this early acknowledgment of customer service spelled success. Like the aforementioned Sam Walton, Field’s retail store struck gold by instituting what have become foregone conclusions today. Developing a policy for exchanges was one; displaying merchandise prices was another. Field also did well for himself in his Chicago real estate ventures, but he’ll always be remembered for his department stores.

Number 6

Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1834 - 1914)

$76.5 billion

The man whose name would become synonymous with lumber capitalized on timing and access to resources to build his fortune. Frederick Weyerhaeuser’s timber resources after the Civil War were considerable, and demand was even greater. Though it would never fly today, Weyerhaeuser extensively clear-cut in the Midwest, creating farming opportunities in many areas and a permanent economic shift.

Number 5

John Jacob Astor (1763 - 1848)

$116.6 billion

If John Jacob Astor were alive to hear industry critics’ “fur kills” cries, he might partially agree. He did, after all, make a killing in fur and it made him the first millionaire in America. Upon overhearing a man discussing fur trading, Astor decided to pursue it himself and realized great success. Along the way, he diversified and dabbled in selling opium -- again, he was successful. Decades later, he got out of the fur business and segued into New York City real estate.

Number 4

Bill Gates (1955 - )

$124 billion

Even if Bill Gates’ currently estimated $58 billion fortune is down from its heady peak nearly a decade ago, the Harvard dropout and Microsoft leader is hardly hurting. After the proposed merger with Yahoo fizzled out and shares dropped in the dominant company he cofounded, he’s probably not losing sleep. He is no doubt looking forward to stepping back from his current role at Microsoft and devoting more time to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, currently $38.7 billion strong.

Number 3

Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794 - 1877)

$178.4 billion

You can’t necessarily get rich by playing nice, and Cornelius Vanderbilt apparently took that to heart. If some point to Sam Walton as the one who unfairly undercut prices, they should look a little further back to Vanderbilt. In his early years in the steamboat business, he would undercut competitors to the point of his own unprofitability, just to make a point. That ruthless competitive nature typified Vanderbilt through his years, especially in the way he ran his railroad empire. He may not have always played nice, but without exception, he played to win.

Number 2

Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)

$297.8 billion

Steel wasn’t a bad business pursuit in the late 1800s. It paid off for Andrew Carnegie and continued to pay handsomely through philanthropy long after his death. A self-made man from humble beginnings, Carnegie worked hard from childhood. He didn’t enjoy overnight success, but he did realize almost continual progress. His savings became investments and his investments became capital for the business ventures for which he would later be known. Even if today’s wealth seekers don’t necessarily follow Carnegie’s principles for philanthropy, they do still highly regard his formulas for acquiring the means.

Number 1

John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)

$323.4 billion

You have to wonder how John D. Rockefeller would fare as a major player in Big Oil today. After all, he founded Standard Oil in 1870, and it wasn’t long before he dominated the industry. Naturally, some didn’t take kindly to that and the company was eventually found to have monopolized. Yet, for all Rockefeller’s detractors, the U.S.’s first billionaire was a serious philanthropist to education, medicine and science. From a legacy standpoint, however, he’s best remembered for his unfathomable wealth. Even today, the name connotes “money.”

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Even before you put these men’s peak wealth into today’s dollars, their fortunes are as formidable as their accomplishments. Only time will tell whether the richest of the rich will ever be usurped.