May 19 (UPI) — An Ohio family broke a Guinness World Record by sending their Slinky down a flight of 53 stairs at a local stadium.
Joe and Christelle Luchsinger visited Otterbein Stadium in Westerville with their 5-year-old son, Axel, to attempt the Guinness World Record for the most stairs descended by a Slinky.
Joe Luchsinger, a fourth-year resident at the Yale School of Medicine, said the record attempt was Axel’s idea.
“Our son Axel is at the age where everything needs to be the biggest, fastest, or most extreme version of itself,” Luchsinger said in an interview with the Yale School of Medicine.
“He’d recently discovered Slinkys and knew I had attempted a record before, so naturally he wanted to know the record for most stairs descended by a Slinky. When we looked it up and saw the existing record was 30 stairs, it seemed beatable.”
The family selected a 6-inch rainbow Slinky for their attempt and managed to send it down 53 stairs, enough to take the record from Marty Jopson and Hugh Hunt, who set the record at 30 stairs in 2014.
The attempt was held on May 14, 2025, and has now been confirmed as an official world record by Guinness World Records.