Organisers of 'Olympic Day Run' here have claimed that the event, organised on June 23 this year, has entered the Guinness' Book of World Records with a record number of participants.
As many as 86,549 people participated in the 5-km run organised by Visakhapatnam District Olympic Association, making it the biggest Olympic Day Run in the world ever, said its president T Harsha Vardhan Prasad today.
Olympic Day Runs are being held worldwide since 1987, to commemorate the establishment of International Olympic Committee on June 23, 1894.
Previous record was held by a 1988 run in Washington DC in which 85,976 people participated, Prasad said.
