Juggling world records comprise the best performances in the fields of endurance and numbers juggling.

Manuel and Christoph Mitasch, world record-holding club passers.

Criteria

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For ratification as a world record, the claimed record

  • must be proved by video evidence, either available to the general public or
  • must be validated by organizations such as Guinness World Records

Up until 2012 any record must have been proved by either of the two methods above or by video evidence, available to the members of the former Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON).[1] JISCON is no longer active.

Records begin where each object being juggled has been thrown and successfully caught at least once (e.g. 11 catches of 12 balls is not listed). This is known as a 'flash'. Where each object is thrown and caught more than once the term used is a 'qualify'.

Notes on defining the props

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  • Balls, which include beanbags, must be roughly spherical objects.[2]
  • Clubs, which include sticks and batons, must be long, roughly cylindrical objects.[2]
  • Rings, which include plates and hoops, must be flat, roughly circular objects.[2]
  • Bouncing balls must be bounced off a solid, flat, horizontal surface with just one bounce per ball between each throw and catch.

Solo juggling records

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Props must be thrown individually from each hand, and counting of catches commences once all props bar one have been thrown. Multiplexing (throwing more than one prop at a time from the same hand) is not allowed. Catches are counted only for throws made while no props have been dropped. According to JISCON definition, a drop is "a failure to catch an object that, as a result, hits the ground or any foreign object. A drop is considered to have happened at the moment the object should have been caught or touched, not when it hits the ground."[2]

Balls

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Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
14 beanbags 14 catches Alex Barron   United Kingdom 2017 (Video on YouTube)
13 beanbags 15 catches Alex Barron   United Kingdom 2013 (Video on YouTube)
12 beanbags 20 catches Alex Barron   United Kingdom 2017 (Video on YouTube)
Tom Whitfield   United Kingdom 2024 (Video on YouTube)
11 beanbags 34 catches Tom Whitfield   United Kingdom 2022 (Video on YouTube)
10 beanbags 51 catches Tom Whitfield   United Kingdom 2024 (Video on YouTube)
9 balls 55 s Anthony Gatto   United States 2006 (Video on YouTube)
8 balls 1 min 18 s Enzo Nicolás Agüero   Argentina 2023 (Video on YouTube)
7 balls 16 min 25 s Adolfo Esteban Cardenas   Chile 2019 (Video on YouTube)
6 balls 30 min 46 s Maximilian Kuschmierz   Germany 2023 (Video on YouTube)
5 balls 3 h 44 min 46 s Bence Ónodi   Hungary 2022 (Video on YouTube)
4 balls 3 h 03 min 13 s Chris Smith   United States 2023 (Video on YouTube)
3 balls 13 h 10 min David Rush   United States 2023 [3]

Clubs

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Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
9 clubs 11 catches Eivind Dragsjø   Norway 2016 (Video on YouTube)
8 clubs 18 catches Moritz Rosner   Germany 2023 (Video on YouTube)
7 clubs 4 min 24 s Anthony Gatto   United States 2005 (Video on YouTube)
6 clubs 7 min 38 s Anthony Gatto   United States 2005 (Video on YouTube)
5 clubs 53 min 21 s Thomas Dietz   Germany 2005 Verified by JISCON
4 clubs 2 h 7 min 17 s Caio Stevanovich   Brazil 2023 (Video on YouTube)
3 clubs 5 h 1 min 51 s Alexandr Inozemtzev   Russia 2022 (Video on YouTube)

Rings

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Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
13 rings 13 catches Lysenko Danil   Ukraine 2024 (Video on YouTube)
12 rings 16 catches Willy Colombaioni   Italy 2016 (Video on YouTube),
(Video on YouTube)
11 rings 21 catches Lysenko Danil   Ukraine 2020 (Video on YouTube)
10 rings 47 catches Anthony Gatto   United States 2005 (Video on YouTube)[1]
9 rings 50 s Anthony Gatto   United States 2005 (Video on YouTube),[1]
8 rings 1 min 17 s Anthony Gatto   United States 1989 (Video on YouTube),[1]
7 rings 15 min 6 s Anthony Gatto   United States 2011 (Video on YouTube
6 rings 6 min 37 s Eivind Dragsjø   Norway 2022 (Video on YouTube)
5 rings 58 min 22 s Caio Stevanovich   Brazil 2022 (Video on YouTube)
4 rings 1 h 20 min 55 s Maximilian Kuschmierz   Germany 2022 (Video on YouTube)
3 rings 3 h 10 min 45 s Maximilian Kuschmierz   Germany 2022 (Video on YouTube)

Bouncing

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Force Bounce

Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
12 bounce balls 12 catches Alan Šulc   Czech Republic 2008 (Video on YouTube),[4]
10 bounce balls 10 catches Alan Šulc   Czech Republic 2008 (Video on YouTube),[4]
Henrik Veres   Hungary 2013 (Video on YouTube)
Tony Garcia   Spain 2014 (Video on YouTube)
David Enoch Sosman   Denmark   France 2021 (Video on TikTok)
9 bounce balls 98 catches Alan Šulc   Czech Republic 2016 (Video on YouTube)
8 bounce balls 4 min 12 s Alan Šulc   Czech Republic 2011 (Video on YouTube),[4]
7 bounce balls 2 min 15 s David Nayer   United States 2015 (Video on YouTube)
6 bounce balls 5 min 48 s David Nayer   United States 2016 (Video on YouTube)
5 bounce balls 59 min 30 s David Nayer   United States 2015 (Video on YouTube)

Lift Bounce

Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
11 bounce balls 12 catches Eden Zak   Israel 2014

(Video on YouTube)

10 bounce balls 51 catches Mathias Ramfelt   Norway 2017 (Video on Vimeo)
9 bounce balls 40 s Mathias Ramfelt   Norway 2017 (Video on Vimeo)
8 bounce balls 1 min 14 s Tyron Colombaioni   Italy 2016 (Video on Facebook)
7 bounce balls 11 min 20 s Tyron Colombaioni   Italy 2016 (Video on YouTube)
6 bounce balls 6 min 43 s Philippe Dupuis   Canada 2016 (Video on YouTube)
5 bounce balls 56 min 09 s Liam Ryan-O'Flaherty   United States 2019 (Video on YouTube)
4 bounce balls 2 hour 0 min 01 s Bill Coad   United States 2019 (Video on YouTube)
3 bounce balls 3 hours 45 min 13 s Bill Coad   United States 2019 (Video on YouTube)

Passing records

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When passing, only the props thrown between two separate jugglers are counted. In some patterns (ultimates or one-count) all the throws are caught by the opposite juggler but in other patterns each juggler makes some throws to themselves. The reason for excluding self throws is that two jugglers could make a single pass to their partner and then go on to juggle solo patterns for as long as they wanted therefore undermining the record for 'passing'.



Balls

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Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
22 balls 22 passes Tom Whitfield & Dan Wood
Tom Whitfield & Dave Leahy
  United Kingdom 2018
2019
(Video on YouTube)
(Video on YouTube)
21 balls 21 passes Dave Leahy
Dan Wood
  United Kingdom 2014 (Video on YouTube)
20 balls 27 passes Tom Whitfield
Dan Wood
  United Kingdom 2019 (Video on YouTube)
19 balls 25 passes Tom Whitfield
Dan Wood
  United Kingdom 2019 (Video on YouTube)
18 balls 29 passes Tom Whitfield
Dave Leahy
  United Kingdom 2019 (Video on YouTube)
17 balls 39 passes Tom Whitfield
Dave Leahy
  United Kingdom 2019 (Video on YouTube)
16 balls 47 passes Peter Kaseman
Doug Sayers
  United States 2015 (Video on YouTube)
15 balls 91 passes Peter Kaseman
Doug Sayers
  United States 2012 (Video on YouTube)
14 balls 22 seconds
(195 passes)
Peter Kaseman
Doug Sayers
  United States 2012 (Video on YouTube), [nb 1]
13 balls 54 seconds
(475 passes)
Ori Roth
Ofek Snir
  Israel 2016 (Video on YouTube)
12 balls 1 min 38 s
(475 passes)
Daniel Ledel
Luca Pferdmenges
  Austria
  Germany
2017 (Video on YouTube)
11 balls 5 min 5 s
(1506 passes)
Daniel Ledel
Luca Pferdmenges
  Austria
  Germany
2018 (Video on YouTube)

Clubs

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Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
15 clubs 15 passes Kaito Tanioka
Kento Tanioka
  Japan 2021 (Video on Instagram)
14 clubs 32 passes Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2020 (Video on YouTube)
13 clubs 31 s
(102 passes)
Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2022 (Video on YouTube)
12 clubs 28 s
(101 passes)
Daniel Ledel
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2016 (Video on YouTube)
11 clubs 1 min 17 s
(246 passes)
Julius Preu
Daniel Ledel
  Germany
  Austria
2022 (Video on YouTube)
10 clubs 4 min 00 s
(808 passes)
Dominik Harant
Daniel Ledel
  Austria 2017 (Video on YouTube)
9 clubs 7 min 1 s
(1392 passes)
Christoph Mitasch
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2007 (Video on YouTube)[1]

Rings

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Equipment Record Juggler Nationality Year Ref(s)
18 rings 19 passes Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2015 (Video on YouTube).
17 rings 21 passes Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2020 (Video on YouTube)
16 rings 32 passes Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2020 (Video on YouTube)
15 rings 52 passes Thomas Dietz
Dominik Harant
  Germany
  Austria
2018 Video on Instagram
14 rings 59 passes Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2013 (Video on YouTube)
13 rings 23 seconds
(171 passes)
Thomas Dietz
Dominik Harant
  Germany
  Austria
2015 (Video on YouTube)
12 rings 1 min 22 seconds
(300 passes)
Dominik Harant
Manuel Mitasch
  Austria 2020 (Video on YouTube)
11 rings 2 min 44 s
(1201 passes)
Thomas Dietz
Dominik Harant
  Germany
  Austria
2015 (Video on YouTube)

Notes

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  1. ^ In 2012, Chris Hodge and Andrew Hodge set the 14 ball passing record for a 2-count pattern. The 199 catches mentioned in that video include self-throws (an alternate counting method used by the IJA).

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "List of Numbers Juggling Records". Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON). Retrieved February 12, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d "Numbers Juggling Rules & Definitions". Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON). Retrieved October 16, 2009.
  3. ^ "Longest duration juggling three objects". Guiness World Records. Guiness World Records. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c "Official Bounce Juggling World Records". The Bounce Page. Archived from the original on May 18, 2013.
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  • JISCON the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling