Zumba dance set Guinness World Record by Columbia

Zumba dance set Guinness World Record by Columbia

Palmetto Health and USC teamed up Saturday to dance their way into the Guiness Book of World Records.

Roughly 1,200 people showed up at the university's Strom Thurmond Wellness Center to set the mark for 'Zumba.'

Zumba is a workout which incorporates dance moves and musical styles such as salsa, merengue, mambo, belly dancing, and hip-hop. It was started by a Colombian dance instructor in the mid-1990s.

"So it's something unique," says Lisa Cassese with Palmetto Health. "We wanted to get a very large group together and that was kind of the inspiration to do it. It was to get as many people as possible for one common cause."

The old record for Zumba was about 900, so Saturday's total easily passed that. Participants got a roughly 30 minute exercise.

Columbia - Zumba dance Guinness World Record Video.

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World’s biggest Zumba class set Guinness Record 2011 - Ravenscraig sports centre

World’s biggest Zumba class set Guinness Record 2011 - Ravenscraig sports centre

The floor was shaking at the new Ravenscraig sports centre when over 800 keep-fit fanatics smashed a world record on Sunday.

Thousands of people visited the state-of-the-art complex over its opening weekend and the highlight was the world’s biggest Zumba class.

No fewer than 836 people danced their way into the record books, smashing the previous record of a Canadian university by almost 300 participants.

Melanie Menzies, Health and Fitness Manager with North Lanarkshire Leisure, who organised the event, said: “The whole place was absolutely buzzing.”

The event was attended by two independent adjudicators and now awaits official verification from the Guinness Book of Records to confirm that the world record has been broken.

Zumba is a cross between aerobics and Latin dance. It fuses hypnotic rhythms and easy-to-follow moves in a fun environment.

Blane Dodds, Chief Executive of North Lanarkshire Leisure, added: “We’re thrilled and delighted to have marked the opening of this fabulous new facility by breaking a world record. We’re now hoping to break the world record for the biggest fitness class ever.”

Events at Ravenscraig continue during the October school break. There will be a family fun day on October 14 (1-5pm).

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Zumba Dance - World’s Largest Zumba Dance Class World Records set by Dal students

Students at Dalhousie University attempted a Guinness world record Wednesday, for holding the world’s largest Zumba dance class.

Zumba is a cross between aerobics and Latin dance, and has become the most popular class at the Dalplex when the fitness centre began offering classes last year.

Dalhousie decided, as part of orientation week, to offer a class at Wickwire Field as a way for new students to meet.

 The university was also attempting to set a world record for a 30 minute Zumba class.

The registered Guinness record is 250 participants, however that record was broken last month.
Dalhousie had 575 students on the field participating in the dance class, and they will wait and see if that number was enough.

There are reports that a record attempt was made in Australia with 720 participants. If Dalhousie doesn’t get the record this year, event organizers say they will likely attempt the record again next year during the first week of classes.

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