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Red Bull Athletes Set Two World Records and Become First-Ever Humans to Catapult Out of a Chimney

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Two Red Bull athletes have broken two Guinness World Records after becoming the first humans to be catapulted out of Europe's tallest chimney.Dani Roman and Fred Fugen were shot out of a 60m catapult - the world's largest - reaching an incredible 456.7m above ground level.The launch achieved two Guinness World Record titles, the greatest height by human catapult (100.36m) and greatest combined height by human catapult (151.72m).The catapult, loc…

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What do we get if we combine the Trbovlje chimney and the human catapult? Two Guinness World Records. Extreme athlete Dani Roman reached a speed of 180 kilometers per hour in 2.15 seconds, and a 60-meter catapult launched him more than 100 meters high.

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In just 2.15 seconds, the jumpers accelerated from zero to 180 km/h in the launch chamber.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Two experienced paratroopers broke two Guinness world records after shooting out of a giant chimney at 180 kilometers per hour in Slovenia. 35-year-old Dani Roman from Spain and 47-year-old Fred Fugen from France used the world’s largest human catapult, built inside a 360-kilometre fireplace [...] The entry The most extreme jump: The shocking video of two men who launched themselves from a giant catapult and broke a world record was first publis…

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Two 'base jumpers' are shot into the air at 180 kilometers per hour. That earns them not one, but two world records.

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In a strange experiment, a person was sent into the air using the propulsion force created in a chimney; an unusual method that has created different images of a human launch experiment./Latest news

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Delo broke the news in Ljubljana, Slovenia on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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