Two Australian friends set a Guinness World Record for the most bar visits in one night. According to the World Record Agency, Harry Kooros and Jake Loiterton visited 99 pubs in 24 hours, sipping those many drinks to accomplish the incredible feat. Mr Kooros and Mr Loiterton are both 26 and from Sydney. They broke the previous record set last year by Heinrich de Villiers of South Africa, who visited 78 pubs, according to the Guinness World Record(GWR).
The two Australians spent over AUD1500 (approximately $83,000) on the record-breaking attempt. The two friends attempted the record for two reasons: to raise funds for MS Australia, a non-profit organization dedicated to multiple-sclerosis research, and to revitalize Sydney’s nightlife, which they claim has been “decimated” over the last decade due to legislative changes and Covid.
“We wanted to try to reignite the spark in a declining piece of what makes Sydney so great,” Mr Kooros told GWR.
To take advantage of late bar closing times, the pair began their bar-hopping adventure at midnight. People who are intoxicated are not permitted to use private transportation in Sydney. As a result, they continued their journey on foot.
However, the first setback occurred just two hours later, when Mr Kooros began to feel the effects of consuming so much liquid in such a short period of time. He puked around 2 a.m.
“Luckily, after reassessing our game plan, I managed to pull it together and continue,” Mr Kooros told GWR.
By 5 a.m., the friends were exhausted and took a break in a park before resuming their record-breaking attempt at 9 a.m., when some pubs opened. They continued on with “very little downtime” throughout the day, aiming to spend no more than 14 minutes traveling from one pub to the next.
Mr Kooros and Mr Loiterton broke the record early in the evening, but they decided to keep going until they reached 100. The pair came to a halt because they miscounted and thought it was their 100th pub.
