This is a compilation of 160 United Kingdom Guinness records in 2017. You may want to take a look at our complete list of United Kingdom Guinness Records broken down by year.
| When | Record name | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 December 2017 | Fastest mile in a bomb disposal suit | 7:24.21 minute(s):second(s) | Mark Gibbs |
| 18 December 2017 | Longest duration to spin a fidget spinner on the nose | 8:49 minute(s):second(s) | Cherry Yoshitake aka Mr Cherry |
| 18 December 2017 | Smallest greetings card | NPL | |
| 17 December 2017 | Longest distance pushing a lawn mower in 24 hours - individual | 92.71 kilometre(s) | Jody Fassinger |
| 14 December 2017 | Most participants in a bleep test | 941 people | AFC Harrogate |
| 11 December 2017 | Largest crochet hook | 2.77 metre(s) | Clare Sams, Broa Sams |
| 29 November 2017 | Most magic tricks performed in one minute | 27 total number | Ben Hanlin |
| 28 November 2017 | Most coins collected in a single round of Coin Runners team of 4 in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | 53 total number | Sean Thorne, Sam Homewood , Ross Thompson , Callum Knight |
| 22 November 2017 | Largest scone | 141.8 kilogram(s) | Neill's Flour |
| 18 November 2017 | Fastest half marathon in a martial arts suit (male) | 1:28:22 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Chris Newton |
| 17 November 2017 | Largest human image of a pizza | 810 people | Just Eat Ltd |
| 14 November 2017 | Most 360 degree rotations in a cyr wheel by a team of three in one minute | 61 total number | Alula Cyr, Fiona Thornhill, Lil Rice, Jessica Ladley |
| 13 November 2017 | Most hot dogs made in one minute | 11 total number | Andre Ortolf, Luke Franks |
| 10 November 2017 | Largest gathering of people dressed as astronauts | 257 people | Sea Mills Primary School |
| 09 November 2017 | Fastest time to build a 171 cup pyramid | 59.10 second(s) | James Acraman |
| 07 November 2017 | Fastest speed in a body controlled jet engine powered suit | 32.02 mph kilometre(s) per hour | Richard Browning |
| 04 November 2017 | Most football (soccer) Premier League headed goals | 52 total number | Peter Crouch |
| 27 October 2017 | Fastest 100 metres sack race | 26.22 second(s) | Stephen Wildish |
| 23 October 2017 | Longest chain of Suffolk puffs (yoyo's) | Museum of East Anglian Life | |
| 22 October 2017 | Most balloons burst with a blown flame by a fire breather | 131 total number | Colin Llewelyn Chapman |
| 22 October 2017 | Fastest marathon pushing a double pram (female) | 3:22:05 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Jessica Bruce |
| 22 October 2017 | Fastest half marathon dressed as a fast food item (male) | 1:25:47 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Lewis Bacon |
| 20 October 2017 | Longest marathon on a bouncy castle (team) | 48:48:48 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Bounce for Golau |
| 15 October 2017 | Largest hula hoop workout | 537 people | Dottie Woods |
| 15 October 2017 | Largest triangle ensemble | 1,521 people | David Stanley, The Music Man Project Students |
| 14 October 2017 | Farthest behind-the-back catch of an American football | 48.751 yard(s) | Kehinde Bello |
| 13 October 2017 | Fastest 100 m sprint (full body burn, without oxygen) | 24.58 second(s) | Antony Britton |
| 13 October 2017 | Most people dipping egg soldiers simultaneously | 183 people | British Lion Eggs |
| 13 October 2017 | Longest distance run full-body burn (without oxygen) | 204.23 metre(s) | Antony Britton, Stannage International Stunt Team |
| 12 October 2017 | Largest disco dance | 314 people | Scholastic, Horsenden Primary School, Liz Pichon |
| 09 October 2017 | Most successful cookery television format | MasterChef | |
| 08 October 2017 | Fastest half marathon dressed as a book character | 01:29:28 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Paul Underwood |
| 08 October 2017 | Fastest time to row the length of the Thames by a team of two | 30:51:47 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Robert Maltby, David Mans |
| 07 October 2017 | Most coins tossed into a target area by a team in one minute | 1,101 total number | British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA) |
| 03 October 2017 | Most limbos in three minutes (team of 25) | 142 total number | Hempshill Hall School, Luke Franks, Sam Homewood, Arielle Free, London Hughes |
| 03 October 2017 | Most passes through an inflatable rubber ring in three minutes (team of 25) | 44 total number | Hempshill Hall School, Luke Franks, Sam Homewood, Arielle Free, London Hughes |
| 01 October 2017 | Most clean sheets in the Premier League by a football (soccer) goalkeeper | 194 total number | Petr Cech |
| 01 October 2017 | Fastest half marathon in a graduation gown (male) | 1:31:58 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Alec Care |
| 30 September 2017 | Most starts for a Premier League football (soccer) player | 604 total number | Gareth Barry |
| 30 September 2017 | Longest marathon playing indoor bowls | 60:10:42 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Jon Shand, Steve Cambers, Mike Baker, Thomas Clark, Jeff Smith, Paul Roberts |
| 28 September 2017 | Most consecutive opponents in a table tennis rally | 112 people | Keith Knox |
| 27 September 2017 | Largest fencing lesson (single venue) | 300 people | Rockwood Academy, Nansen Primary School, Premier Education Group , British Fencing |
| 24 September 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a telephone box | 4:06:37 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Mark Williamson |
| 17 September 2017 | Most hula hoop rotations on the leg in the arabesque position in one minute | 203 total number | Ashlee Male |
| 16 September 2017 | Fastest garden shed | 129.831 kilometre(s) per hour | kevin nicks |
| 16 September 2017 | Most players in a hockey exhibition match | 367 people | King’s High, Warwick, Warwick School, Warwick Hockey Club |
| 14 September 2017 | Oldest solo pilot helicopter flight | 87:40 year(s):day(s) | David Marks |
| 10 September 2017 | Fastest return journey from Land's End to John-O'-Groats by bicycle (male) | 5:18:03 day(s):hour(s):minute(s) | James MacDonald |
| 10 September 2017 | Fastest half marathon dressed as a musical instrument (male) | 1:24:29 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Alistair Rutherford |
| 07 September 2017 | Most modelling balloon sculptures made in one minute | Ryan Tracey | |
| 02 September 2017 | Most items caught by a dog in 30 seconds | 23 total number | Molly the dog , Stephen Kish |
| 26 August 2017 | Tallest stack of tortillas | 68.5 centimetre(s) | AKM (Joy) Mahbubul Ehsan |
| 25 August 2017 | Largest insect hotel / house | 18.46 cubic metre(s) | WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre, Peter Bullen |
| 22 August 2017 | Largest samosa | 153.1 kg (337 lb 8.5 oz) kilogram(s) | Muslim Aid |
| 18 August 2017 | Longest TV career by an entertainer (male) | 76 year(s) | Bruce Forsyth |
| 12 August 2017 | Largest gathering of people dressed as Peter Pan | 534 people | CRUK Relay For Life Kirriemuir |
| 04 August 2017 | Farthest BMX limbless manual | 13 metre(s) | Lee Musselwhite |
| 04 August 2017 | Longest flute marathon | 27:32:32 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Katherine Brookes |
| 03 August 2017 | Oldest person to swim the Oceans Seven | 58:110 year(s):day(s) | Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González |
| 30 July 2017 | Largest parade of McLaren cars | Jeff Vaudrey, McLaren Owners Group UK, Paul Altham-Lewis | |
| 29 July 2017 | Most high fives in relay in three minutes | 492 total number | Brother |
| 29 July 2017 | Longest bar-to-bar bicycle jump | 2.81 metre(s) | Andrei Burton |
| 29 July 2017 | Highest bicycle forward step up | 1.79 metre(s) | Lazlo Hegedus |
| 29 July 2017 | Longest marathon playing rugby union sevens | 24:30:00 hour(s):minute(s) | Horus 7s and Witney Barbarians |
| 29 July 2017 | Highest bicycle bunny hop | 1.45 metre(s) | Rick Koekoek |
| 25 July 2017 | Most original pieces of music in a videogame (including expansions) | 1,198 total number | RuneScape (Jagex) |
| 25 July 2017 | Most prolifically updated MMORPG videogame | 1,014 total number | RuneScape |
| 25 July 2017 | Most swimming trunks pulled on over clothing in 30 seconds | 21 total number | Angelina Barlow |
| 25 July 2017 | Most users of an MMO videogame | 254,994,744 total number | RuneScape |
| 21 July 2017 | Most nationalities in a language lesson | 57 total number | English UK London, London Nest |
| 17 July 2017 | Largest cricket lesson (single venue) | 580 people | Chance to Shine |
| 16 July 2017 | Heaviest weight lifted by kettlebell swing in one hour (male) | 28,512 kilogram(s) | Chris Wooler |
| 15 July 2017 | Oldest active boxer | 60 years, 337 days year(s):day(s) | Stephen Ward |
| 14 July 2017 | Largest jam filled biscuit | 26.76 kilogram(s) | Frances Quinn, Hambleton Bakery |
| 09 July 2017 | Youngest snooker player to score a 147 break | 15:90 year(s):day(s) | Sean Maddocks |
| 05 July 2017 | Largest high-intensity interval training class | 3,804 people | Joe Wicks |
| 02 July 2017 | Longest marathon playing futsal | 50:00:00 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Lee Knight Foundation |
| 02 July 2017 | Farthest run 24 hours ultra distance (female) | 259.990 kilometre(s) | Patrycja Bereznowska |
| 25 June 2017 | Highest pinfall in tenpin bowling in 24 hours by a pair | 37,653 total number | Gavin Boden, Anthony Kyme |
| 23 June 2017 | Most fire breathing backflips in one minute | 14 total number | Ryan Luney |
| 18 June 2017 | Most chicken nuggets eaten in three minutes | 746 gram(s) | Thomas Welborn |
| 17 June 2017 | Most participants in a static cycling relay in 8 hours | 329 people | Velosure Cycle Insurance |
| 16 June 2017 | Most weight lifted by dumbbell rows in one hour | 35,899.6 kilogram(s) | Sipos Ede Daniel |
| 13 June 2017 | Most airfields visited in 24 hours by fixed-wing aircraft | 87 total number | Nicholas Rogers, Mike Roberts |
| 13 June 2017 | Largest knitting needles | 4.42 metre(s) | Elizabeth Bond |
| 13 June 2017 | Longest marathon doing Tai Chi | 28:59 hour(s):minute(s) | Sheila Dickinson |
| 04 June 2017 | Lowest fuel consumption from Land's End to John-O'-Groats (petrol car) | 2.963 litre(s) per 100 kilometres | Fergal McGrath, Paul Clifton |
| 03 June 2017 | Largest bingo ticket / card | 15.912 square metre(s) | Sun Bingo |
| 01 June 2017 | Most double high fives in relay in one minute | 98 total number | Event360 |
| 31 May 2017 | Largest inflatable beach ball | 19.97 metre(s) | Baywatch Movie |
| 29 May 2017 | Longest shaving cream pie relay | 438 people | Royal Greenwich District Scouts |
| 28 May 2017 | Largest human representation of a text | 268 people | Rotary Wessex |
| 28 May 2017 | Most backwards somersaults in a sky dive | 19 total number | Harry Shimmin |
| 28 May 2017 | Longest time for a rubber band powered model aircraft to remain in the air | 2:07.37 minute(s):second(s) | Martin Pike |
| 18 May 2017 | Largest Brazen event | Accenture Financial Services EALA | |
| 17 May 2017 | Largest LEGO®brick wind turbine | 7.63 metre(s) | The LEGO Group |
| 14 May 2017 | Oldest tandem parachute jump (male) | 101:38 year(s):day(s) | Bryson William Verdun Hayes |
| 14 May 2017 | Most goals scored in the English Premier League by a football (soccer) player for one club | 183 total number | Wayne Rooney |
| 13 May 2017 | Fastest time to hook ten ducks (team of two) | 33.66 second(s) | Michael Abbott, Alasdair McGregor |
| 07 May 2017 | Largest collection of lip balms | 730 total number | Bailey Leigh Sheppard |
| 01 May 2017 | Most people throwing Wellington boots simultaneously | 636 people | The Carmarthenshire 2017 RWAS Feature County |
| 30 April 2017 | Farthest distance to throw a bullseye in darts | 6 metre(s) | Matthew Prouse |
| 28 April 2017 | Most tickets sold for a science tour | Brian Cox | |
| 25 April 2017 | Most Bluetooth speakers playing from a single source | Harman International | |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a cartoon character (female) | 3:24:28 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Rebecca Vincent |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a witch (female) | 3:26:13 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Nicola Nuttall |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a monk (female) | 3:21:33 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Sarah Dudgeon |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a Bishop | 3:21:32 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Max Livingstone-Learmonth |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a vegetable | 2:45:08 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Andrew Lawrence |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a fast food item | 2:59:35 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Gary McNamara |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon in a three person costume | 3:13:09 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Evan Williams, Ian Williams, Graham O'Loughlin |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a crustacean (male) | 3:13:18 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Simon Couchman |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a chef (male) | 3:22:27 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Terry Midgley |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a postman | 3:45:06 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Brian Kirsopp |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest road run 30 kilometres (female) | 1:36.05 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Mary Keitany |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a Viking | 3:03:11 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Paul Richards |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a swimmer | 2:42:24 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Joe Spraggins |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a nun | 3:17:12 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Daniel Jordan |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon skipping without a rope | 5:24:33 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Sam Guinness |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon wearing wellington boots | 3:21:27 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Damian Thacker |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon wearing chainmail (upper body) | 4:50:16 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Thomas Langdown |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a Mr. Potato Head | 3:24:19 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Philip Powell |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as an elf (male) | 2:58:16 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Ashley Payne |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon in a full-body animal costume (male) | 3:16:36 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Laurence Morgan |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon in film character costume (female) | 3:16:19 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Rebecca Cesar de Sa |
| 23 April 2017 | Fastest marathon dressed as a nun (female) | 3:26:53 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Victoria Carter |
| 22 April 2017 | Longest marathon playing touch/mini/tag rugby | 30:03:11 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Keele University Men's Rugby Union Club |
| 21 April 2017 | Most rope crossovers (criss cross) while skipping in one minute | 110 total number | Peter Thompson |
| 10 April 2017 | Most American footballs caught behind the back in one minute | Antonio Brown, Jarvis Landry, Kirk Cousins | |
| 09 April 2017 | Most Laurence Olivier awards wins | 9 total number | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| 08 April 2017 | Longest paperclip chain - individual | 1.997 kilometre(s) | Ben Mooney |
| 04 April 2017 | Longest reigning monarch (living) | 65:57 year(s):day(s) | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 04 April 2017 | Longest reigning queen - living | 65:57 year(s):day(s) | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 30 March 2017 | Most subscribers for a Call of Duty video channel | 8,751,853 total number | “Ali-A”, aka Alastair Aiken |
| 30 March 2017 | Most popular Call of Duty video channel by views | 2,213,900,401 total number | “Ali-A”, aka Alastair Aiken |
| 25 March 2017 | Fastest circumnavigation by tandem bicycle (male) | 290:7:36 day(s):hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | George Agate, John Whybrow |
| 23 March 2017 | Fastest bumper car / dodgem | 161.476 km/h 100.336 mph kilometre(s) per hour | The Stig , Colin Furze |
| 19 March 2017 | Fastest half marathon running backwards (female) | 2:27:09 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Shantelle Gaston-Hird |
| 18 March 2017 | Most Six Nations Championships | 6 total number | England |
| 16 March 2017 | Fastest-selling pop album in the UK by a male artist | 672,000 total number | Ed Sheeran |
| 12 March 2017 | Most joints cracked continuously | 32 total number | kalai selven kali shanmugham |
| 09 March 2017 | Most companies identified by their logo in 30 seconds | 42 total number | Gavin Hudson |
| 04 March 2017 | Fastest relay 4 x 400 metres (male) (indoors) | 3:01.77 minute(s):second(s) | Karol Zalewski, Rafał Omelko, Łukasz Krawczuk, Jakub Krzewina |
| 28 February 2017 | Most pancakes filled in 1 minute | 11 filled pancakes total number | Laura Tobin |
| 28 February 2017 | Largest LEGO®brick Batmobile | 1.30 x 5.51 x 1.69 metre(s) | Nathan Sawaya |
| 25 February 2017 | Longest videogame marathon on Overwatch | 24:00:14 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Samuel Hibbert, Jay Smith, Tom Leigh, James Williams |
| 22 February 2017 | Longest marathon playing pool (singles) | 105:22:00 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Darren Stocks, Graham Cuthbert |
| 18 February 2017 | Fastest time to visit all English Football League stadiums | 189 day(s):hour(s):minute(s) | Ed Wood |
| 09 February 2017 | Most flips of a bottle on the back of the hand in one minute | TGI Friday Inc | |
| 08 February 2017 | Most football (soccer) volleys in one minute | 20 total number | Georges-Kévin N'Koudou, Dele Alli |
| 05 February 2017 | Largest jaffa cake | 1.207 square metre(s) | Frances Quinn |
| 04 February 2017 | Fastest time to model five balloon sculptures blindfolded | 1, 1.3 minute(s):second(s) | Ryan Tracey |
| 03 February 2017 | Most eggs crushed with the toes in one minute | 60 total number | Alan Nash |
| 29 January 2017 | Fastest time to catch 10 items by a dog | 14.76 second(s) | Hagrid, David Woodthorpe-Evans |
| 27 January 2017 | Largest mechanical wings on a cosplay costume | 426 metre(s) | Leo Simon |
| 27 January 2017 | Largest balloon costume | 262 dimension(s) | Tom Kent |
| 25 January 2017 | Most tattoos of the same name on the body | 267 total number | Mark Evans |
| 19 January 2017 | Youngest person to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle (male) | 23:365 year(s):day(s) | kane avellano |
| 12 January 2017 | Tightest knotted structure | 2.5 nanometre(s) | David Leigh, Jonathan J. Danon, Anneke Krüger, Jean-François Lemonnier, Alexander J. Stephens, Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, Steffen L. Woltering |
| 2017 | Highest annual revenue by a single department store | 2,000,000,000 UK pound(s) sterling | Harrods |