Georges Christen

Georges Christen is a Luxembourgish strongman born in Luxembourg City in 1962 who is known mainly for feats of strength and world records rather than for multi-event contests. He holds 23 Guinness World Records, among them the fastest hot water bottle inflated by lung power, and has also set records for tearing phonebooks, towing trains and pulling aeroplanes. His public career began in December 1982, when at nineteen he bent 250 carpenter nails in just under 73 minutes. He now performs about 100 strength shows a year, often bending nails, tearing phonebooks, pulling heavy machinery and using his teeth, and in 2022 he was reported to have lifted Bill Gates with his teeth.