It’s been a record-breaking summer thanks to the incredible efforts of our athletes. But even the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis would struggle to compete with some of the entries in the latest Guinness Book of World Records.Among the wacky wonders to find a place in the 2013 edition of Guinness Book of World Record is Popeye lookalike Moustafa Ismail and his monstrous biceps, and a man with the tallest mohican hairstyle, measuring a towering 3ft 8in. It’s not just humans either, with all creatures great and small snatching a few records - from a mighty Great Dane to a teeny bull. The 57th version of best-selling reference book also features new verified entries for the world’s heaviest sportswoman and the most conquests of Mount Everest. These include 86-year-old Johanna Quaas, a retired PE teacher from Leipzig, Germany, who is named the oldest gymnast and London-based sumo wrestler Sharran Other records in the 57th edition of the book include the lowest roadworthy car - a vehicle created by students and teachers in Asakuchi, Japan, which measures 45.2cm (17.79in) from the ground to its highest part. The City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, also enters the new edition, with a record enrolment of 39,437 pupils for the 2010-2011 academic year.–DM
1BIGGEST HORSE: Big Jake, a nine-year-old Belgian gelding, from Winsconsin, US, tops 20 hands - or almost 7ft.
2SHORTEST BULL: A 29-year-old bull called Archie, from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, measures just 30in from his hooves to his withers.
3TALLEST DOG: Three-year-old Great Dane Zeus and his owner Denise Doorlag in Michigan. On his hind legs, he towers over her at 7ft 4in.
4BIGGEST BARBIE COLLECTION: Blonde Barbie fan Bettina Dorfmann, 52, from Germany, has 15,000 dolls she’s collected since 1993 - they fill a room.
5TALLEST MOHICAN: Japanese designer Kazuhiro Watanabe’s spear-like hairdo peaks at more than 3ft 8in, thanks to three cans of hairspray and a large bottle of gel.
6FASTEST SHEEP: Zippy Lambourghini, from a farm in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, won’t bleat after winning 165 out of 179 races.
7HEAVIEST FEMALE ATHLETE: British sumo wrestler Sharran Alexander wolfed down a high calorie diet of takeaways and fried chicken to get into the record books at 32st.
8LARGEST HOTDOG: Feeling peckish? This 7lb, 16in monster on
