A Mongolian dancer, Tsatsral Erdenebileg, has successfully set the new Guinness World Record for “Longest time to hold the Marinelli bend position”. She achieved the record in the theatre of the Circus Maximus in Budapest, Hungary on April 9th 2013.  She gained the new Guinness World Record by holding the position for two minutes and 34 seconds.  Contortionist Tsatsral Erdenebileg took third place in a competition for young circus artists in Paris, France in 2006.

The record was previously held by another Mongolian woman, Oyungerel Luvsandorj, who set the Guinness World Record for “Longest time to hold the Marinelli bend position” for 33 seconds, breaking the old world record by 11 seconds, in Great Britain in 2008. Oyungerel then updated her record to 50 seconds in Italy.