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* '''+50°C'''. It were for hitchhikers from Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club expedition to Iran and Pakistan '''Vladas Sapranavicius and Inga Garnyte''' in ancient city Bam (S. Iran) in middle of July, 1999.
* <ul><li> [[User:Korn|Stefan Korn]] hitchhiked from Fairbanks down to British Colombia and got a 2676km long ride from [[Tok]] [[Alaska]] to [[Cache Creek]] in [[British Columbia]] (2014-01-13T). Around '''1.600 km''' he drove by himself.</li> <li>'''1,113.6 km''', by [[User:Prino|Prino]] from the Netherlands, a ride from service station Deersels on the A67 near [[Sevenum]], [[The Netherlands]] (2018-09-04T14:13) to service station Brwinów on the A2 near [[Brwinów]], [[Poland]] (2018-09-05T12:24) - Prino drove the entire distance, driver even paid for a hotel room at night. Possibly around '''1,100 km''', also by [[User:Prino|Prino]]. During his longest ride, a 2,502.9 km monster from a petrol station near [[Platamonas]] (1990-08-13T16:32) in [[Greece]] to [[Driebergen]] (1990-08-15T12:54) in the Netherlands, he drove during five periods, for a total time of 10:06 out of a total driving time of 22:41. The distance is based on the average speed of the ride, and the sections driven.</li> <li>'''781 km''', according to [[User:Fverhart|Frank Verhart]] from The the [[Netherlands]]. Frank drove from service station Gralla Ost on the A9 near [[Graz]], [[Austria]] (26.2015-05.2015 @ 22h19-26T22:19) to service station Medenbach Ost on the A3 near [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Germany]] (27.07.2015 @ 10h28-05-27T10:28).</li></ul>
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Note that this page is a near copy of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20130430232108/http://autostop.lt/rekordai.html Rekordai] / [http://web.archive.org/web/20130125093731/http://www.autostop.lt/records.html Records] of Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas. Some of the records, those marked '''(HGE)''', were originally published in Ken Welsh' "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe".
Feel free to add your own record(s), but please do not make list longer than '''five''' records. If you still want to add a record when there are already five entries, and your record is not in the top-5, you can create a sub-page for the particular record.
== The longest distances passed on land during the 24 hours period ==
* '''2777 km''' (1736 miles), according to [mailto:[email protected] Pavel Trcala], from [[Czech Republic]]. Time 28 November 1998 07:30 - 29 November 1998 06:30. The route: Miami to Chicago via Jacksonville (Florida), Savannah (Georgia), Columbia (South Carolina), Asheville (North Carolina), Knoxville (Tennessee), Lexington (Kentucky), Toledo (Ohio), South Bend (Indiana), and Harvey (Illinois). The route was done in five lifts.
* '''2750 km''', according to [[http://www.vladas.com/|Vladas Sapranavicius]], member of [[VHHC|Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club]]. Time: 21 August 1996 22:00 – 22 August 1996 22:00 [http://www.viamichelin.com/ ViaMichelin] gives as expected travel time for Almeria - Potsdam: 24 hours and 51 minutes. The route: Almeria (E) – Murcia (E) – Barcelona (E) – Montpellier (F) – Lyon (F) – Frankfurt (D) – Potsdam (D). 4 lifts (Almeria – Montpellier; Montpellier – Lyon; Lion Lyon – Salzgitter; Salzgitter – Potsdam). The average speed (including waiting for the ride + a cup of beer in the restaurant): 115 km/h. The maximum speed: 170 km/h. * [[File:Gbor-cut.jpg|left|thumb|280px]] '''2318.4 km''', according to [[User:Prino|Robert Prins]], hitchhiker from , at the UKtime, the [[Netherlands]]. It was done by in 4 lifts in [[Greece]], through [[Yugoslavia]], [[Austria]] and [[Germany]] during 20.47 hours. Start of the first lift at the border between Greece and Yougoslavia, end at the Siegburg (south of Köln) motorway service in Germany. The second lift till Remscheid motorway service, just North of Koln. The third – till Ostetal (before Hamburg) and the fourth – till Hamburg Stillhorn motorway service. Note: This record had been was included in on page 179 of the '''UK''' 1991 edition of the GBOR. The actual entry on page 179Guinness Book of Records. Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [[Prino's https://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prinos-24-hour -record|.html here]].
== Lifetime hitchhiking ==
== The longest rides with one car ==
* In 2015 '''Aliosha Yazylets''', a Belorussian hitchhiker, together with one other person, hitchhiked over'''12,000 km''' in one lift from Tadjikistan, via China, Mongolia, Irkutsk and Moscow in Russia, all the way to Lvov in western Ukraine.
* '''L.J. Gordon''' from Western Australia. He started from Whitepark Bay Youth Hostel in Northern Ireland, where four Americans in a Combi Van gave him a lift through Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, France, Andorra and into Spain. They covered an astonishing '''7107 km''' before parting company. '''(HGE)''' '''Note:''' This record was copied from Ken Welsh' "Hitchhikers Guide to Europe". L.J. may have recorded the distance as miles in a car with a KM odometer, as the distance seems far too great to be in kilometres.
* '''Alexey Anofriev''' from Vladivostok ([[Russia]]) hitchhiked from Vladivostok (23 May, 2001) to Shimanovsk (the end of the road) and got a lift to Samara there. From Shimanovsk to Shilka on the railroad platform together with the car and from Shilka to Samara by car (Toyota Celica). Totally it was about '''6800 km''' long lift from 28 May until 4 June! Afterwards, the drivers went to Krasnodar and Alexey hitchhiked on to St. Petersburg. He arrived to St. Petersburg on 7 June, 2001.
* '''Benoit Grieu''', French hitchhiker who hitchhiked about '''6000 km''' in one lift from Anchorage (Alaska) to San Diego (California).
== Most rides taken in 24 hours ==
* The [http://hitchwiki.org/en/DTSG [DTSG]] members [http://hitchwiki.org/en/[User:Koendev |Koen de Jong]] and [http://hitchwiki.org/en/[User:Korn |Stefan Korn]] had '''32 rides''' during a DTSG-Competition on 2 May 2014 in Germany (between 08:00 and 23:30). The last three rides they caught with another competitor that they met along the way.
== One year hitchhiking record ==
== The longest journey ==
* '''Benoit Grieu''' has been hitch-hiking since 1979 and still hitchhiked every day until [http://beni.eurower.net/ he disappeared] , [http://www.autostopmagellan.ro/benoit-grieu-de-timotei-rad/] {{ro}}, on his way to Nepal in 2011. During these years he covered about '''1,500,000 km''' not staying more than 3 months in one place.
* '''Expedition “Autocolumbus”''' by [[PASL]] in 17 February 1992 – July 1993. The trip started 4 hitchhikers: '''Alexey Vorov, Mikhail Dutkevich, Kiril Baranov and Victor Grigor’ev''', but only Alexey and Mikhail finished the complete journey. The route was around the world through 25 countries in Europe, Asia, South and North America. The length of the route '''~83,000 km'''.
* In 2014 Stefan [[User:Korn|Korn]] started a circumnavigation expedition. The trip took him 22 months, passing through 58 countries in 5 continents and covering a total distance of '''108.895 km'''. His expedition was documented in his travel blog [https://warmroads.de/en/hitchhiking-around-the-world/ warmroads.de].
== Longest waiting time ==
* '''Benoit Grieu''', French hitch-hiker, has hitchhiked in about '''170''' countries.
* '''Vladimir Nesin''' is famous for barefoot walking, and has been in 138 countries. In all of them he hitchhiked at least one time, excepting Mongolia, which he traversed completely on foot. This means he has hitchhiked in '''137''' countries, although in many of them only a little bit.
* '''Pavel TrcalaVladimir Sharlaev''', hitchhiker from Czech RepublicSt. He Petersburg has hitchhiked in '''108''' 138 countries, if counting "not officially recognized territories" . *''We are not sure how many officially recognized nation-states that amounts to exactly, but it must be somewhere "'Vladimir Sharlaevbetween 120 and 135"''' from St. Petersburg has also hitchhiked in over 100 countries.
== The largest deviation done by a driver ==
* Island of Dunay, north of Tiksi, North Russia, '''73°56''''. It was done by '''Konstantin Savva''' from Moscow Hitchhiking School (Russia) and his girlfriend Polina Kuleshova in September 2002.
* Urung-Haia, North Russia, '''73°'''. It was done by '''Konstantin Savva''' from Moscow Hitchhiking School (Russia) on May 2002.
* Tiksi, North Russia, '''71° 36''''. It was done by '''Andrey Sapunov and Alexandr Dmitrievskyi'''' from Ukrainian hitchhiking club "Mainroad" (Ukraine) on autumn 2002.* Phillips Petroleum drilling operations near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, '''71°''' N was done by '''Ilmar Island''' from Pompano Beach, FL as the starting point for a Guinness World Record run from Prudhoe Bay, AK to Key West, FL which was accomplished in 6-days, 17-hours and 22-minutes. However since the route included trespassing for 510-miles on oil company owned roads the record was not honoured and instead Guinness recognized Mr. Island's run from Key West, FL to Fairbanks, AK in 5-days, 20-hours and 52-minutes that he accomplished a few days earlier in June of 1979.
== Reaching the farthest point south ==
* '''+55°C''' experienced '''Alexey Vorov, Andrey Kuritsin, Ol’ga Bandurko, Andrey Leipi and Nadezhda Makarova''' in summer 1981 near Ashchabad, Turkmenistan.
* '''+52°C'''. Bertrand [https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/permalink/1164783520201879/?comment_id=1164787246868173&offset=0&total_comments=7&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R4%22%7D hitchhiked] from [[Abu Dhabi]] airport to the city center. 19th August 2015.
== The lowest temperature ==
* '''–63°C'''. It was for hitchhiker '''Elena Saturova''', member of PASL in January 1992 between Ust’-Nera and Sasuman in East Yakutya, Russia.
* During their expedition to the Nordkapp in January 2018, hitchhikers of the DTSG encountered temperatures down to '''–30 °C''' in Finnish Lapland. The hitchhiking nomad '''Sven Kopf''' even slept outside during those temperatures.
== The highest speed ==
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* '''310 km/h''', according to '''Andrius Papickas''' and '''Viktorija Aksionova''' from Lithuania. It has happened on April 14, 2004 in Germany, between Fulda and Dresden, when travellers were returning home from Spain. The car was "BMW 550" ("Alpina").
* '''300 km/h''', according to '''[[User:Prino|Prino]]''', on 25 May 2016 around 20:30, during a ride from [[MOP]] Nowostawy on the [[A2 (Poland)|Polish A2]] to a petrol station on the exit [[Poznan]] Komorniki (the driver missed MOP Tulce). The car was a Mercedes E63 AMG. The driver made an attempt to break the 310 km/h record mentioned above, but lack of free road made this impossible.
* '''300 km/h''', according to '''Linas Migonis''' from Lithuania. On June 1, 2007, on the route Berlin - Leipzig he had a lift with 4 seated "Maserati". The drive has attended a driving lessons of Formula-1 racer.
* '''292 km/h''', according to '''Veit Kuehne''' from Dresden, Germany. He got a ride with a young driver (car "Audi") on a highway between Dresden and Chemnitz in July 2008.
== Fastest round the world hitchhike trip ==
* [http://transglobal-race.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=35&lang=en '''20 days +1h31m17s'''], according to Alexej Vorov from Russia. Alexej hitch-hiked from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, from Seattle to Boston and from Madrid to St. Petersburg starting 01.10.2014 00h00 and finishing 21.10.2014 01h31:17. He passed the countries Russia, USA, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. == Highest number of countries within 24 hours ==* '''10''', according to Miran Ipavec from Slovenia. Miran hitched this in 23 hours and 15 minutes, starting on 2018-03-14. In this order he passed these countries: Serbia, Croatia*, Bosnia and Herzegovina**, Slovenia*, Italy**, Austria*, Germany**, Hungary*, Slovakia, Czech Republic. Countries marked * were passed twice and at those marked ** Ipavec retunred into the previous country at the border.
== Highest number of countries within 10 days ==
* '''30''', according to Miran Ipavec from Slovenia. Miran hitched this in 9 days, 20 hours and 25 minutes, starting on 2015-04-01.04.2015. In this order he passed these countries: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania*, Ukraine, Serbia, Macedonia*, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosniaand Herzegovina, Croatia*, Slovenia*, Italy, Austria*, Czech Republic, Germany*, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Countries marked * were passed twice. Kosovo, not recognised by the UN, is excluded from this list.
== Longest "driving the driver" ride ==
== Slowest hitchhiking between two points ==
* '''William Innes''' from Scotland, UK. He got a ride on a milk float on 'collection' day and it took 4.5 hours to travel 2 miles from North London to the start of the M1. '''(HGE)''' Note: It would take a reasonably fit person about 30 minites minutes to cover this distance on foot...
* '''Ruth Cleece''' from UK. She got a '''half-mile''' ride taking '''45 minutes''' on a steam-roller. '''(HGE)'''
== The largest sum of money that was given to a hitchhiker by a Youngest driver hitchhiked ==*'''500 DMRobertas Pogorelis'''from Vilnius, Lithuania. On 23 August 2016 he got a ride from Long Island, Palau, according to Koror, Palau (about 2 km) from a '''Sahin Sisic14-year-old''', from [[The Netherlands]]girl who was driving to school. Everything was legal: the driver held a temporary licence and was sitting next to her 16-year->old sister who had a full licence.
== Hitchhiking lap records of famous racing circuits ==
== Guiness Book of Records Hitchhiking Entries ==
Until the early 1990'ies the UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records ('''GBOR''') used to list a number of hitch-hike world records. They were
<ul>
<li>The greatest distance hitched during a hitchhiking career <li>The fastest time to get from [[Land's End]] to [[John o'Groats]] (and the round trip) <li>The greatest distance hitched in a 24-hour period
</ul>
"The greatest distance in 24 hours is 2318.4 km ''1440.7 miles'', from Southern [[Yugoslavia]] to [[Hamburg]], [[Germany|West Germany]] on 5 July 1989 by Robert Prins of [[De Bilt]], [[The Netherlands]]. He achieved this with just four lifts."
Full details of the four rides that led to this record can be found [[Prino's 24http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/prino%27s%2024-hour record|%20record.html here]].
== The US edition of the Guinness Book of Records ==
=== From [[Key West]], [[Florida]] to [[Fairbanks]], [[Alaska]] ===
"A young man named Ilmar Island of Pompano Beach, Florida, Hitchhiked from Key West, Florida, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a distance of about 5200 miles, setting out on June 2, 1979, and arriving at his destination on June 7, just 5 days 20 hours and 52 minutes later."
A few days later after completing his Key West, Florida, to Fairbanks, Alaska run, Mr. Island hitched from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska back to Key West, Florida in 6-days, 17-hours and 22-minutes. However since this route included trespassing for 510-miles on oil company owned roads that record was not honored and instead Guinness recognized Mr. Island's run from Key West, Florida to Fairbanks, Alaska as mentioned above.
== Further references to hitchhiking records ==
<ul>
<li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?05 World Records: Musings on what makes a record breaking hitch.] <li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?06 More Records: Record breaking hitches in summary] <li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?17 Me Hitch-hiker, You Hitch-hikee: Turning the tables]
</ul>
[[Category:General info]]
It would be great to add additional existing records:
* The biggest hitch-hiking gathering
* The biggest hitch-hiking race by number of participants
* The biggest hitch-hiking event in general
* The longest hitch-hiking race by kilometres
* The largest hitch-hiking club (number of members during some certain year. There should be a clear rules, how a club define membership, for example, yearly membership fee or visiting club's meetings at least once per month)
* The longest boat ride
* The longest train ride
* The longest plane ride
