Fastest 100 metre hurdles wearing swim fins (individual, female)

The fastest 100 metre hurdles wearing swim fins (female) is 19.278 seconds and was acheived by Veronica Torr (New Zealand) on the set of NZ Smashes Guinness World Records at the Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 August 2009

Comments

1. How short can the fins be? How strong do they have to be? Is there a shape requirement?
   
   Ah, nevermind. Even if I gamed the system to classify my runners' shoes as swim fins, I wouldn't make a 100m hurdle in less than 20 seconds anyway.
2. wtf I can do this
3. Anyone else get a QWOP vibe from watching her run?
4. Cause you can.
5. I think the Guinness Records lost their credibility and prestige once things like this started to be here.
   I mean - this "sport"/"challenge"/whatever has no real use other than that somebody can be best in it. It's like the other one I see here as suggested video "most toilet seats broken by the head in one minute". Why?
   
   If I ever wanted to be in the Book, I don't have to be good/special/extraordinary in anything, all I have to do is invent some weird thing and be the best (the only one) in it. And then maybe somebody would see the chance to beat me in it and atke the place in the book and I will be remembered as the founder of the thing, briefly holding the record, hell yeah.
6. Where have all the comments gone?
7. This is a thing?!
8. XKCD
9. xkcd brought me here
10. Thanks xkcd, I needed this in my life
11. I don't recall even being able to walk properly in flippers. This is impressive.
12. How is this official? Shouldn't it atleast require a starting gun with electronic timing?
13. This event is totally a classified part of BUD/S.
14. whoever has analytics access for this video, i'd like to point out that the source of the MASSIVE (probably) spike in your analytics data is from xkcd an online web comic, in case you did not know.
15. Quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen. What is even the point?
16. Can someone please gif this? :)
17. she seems like shes' trying really hard to not laugh the entire time. It must've been a lot of fun, and a lot of silly. Impressive too, no way in hell I could do that.
18. There are no stupid records, only stupid people.
    
    Hi from XKCD.
19. Why would you do that.
20. What the flip...