597 Students Achieve Guinness World Record for Jump Rope
The Director-General of the Sports Administration, Ho Jow-fei (何卓飛) (center left), poses for a picture with the celebrity spokesperson of a record-breaking jump-rope event, Chen Shih-hsin (陳詩欣) (center right), and the jump rope team from Keelung Municipal Chung Cheng Junior High School. A total of 597 students from across Taiwan set a new Guinness World Record of the most people skipping Double Dutch-style rope at 09:09 A.M. on September 9, 2014, Taiwan's first National Sports Day.
