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At 61, a grandmother of 12 held a plank for five hours — smashing her own record

Alberta's DonnaJean Wilde, 61, a retired schoolteacher, held an abdominal plank for five hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah — beating her own 2024 mark of 4 hours 30 minutes 11 seconds. She discovered planking in 2013 while recovering from a broken arm, and a Guinness World Records adjudication application is pending.

The upbeat factorFive hours. Sixty-one years young
✓ Verified · New York Post · 2026-10-09 · USA
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