Stands now at 230.48 meters (252 yards), thrown by Ilkka Kontinaho, Finland, using a 30" birch atlatl and a 58", 860-grain self wood dart. This throw
was accurately measured perpendicular to a center line bisecting the throwing field, in the presence of law enforcement and a dense crowd and presented to the
Guinness World Records, but as Dave Engvall's synthetic atlatl distance record still stands some 20 yards further, they declined. Given that Ilkka threw
the present primitive world record into a side wind, and it was his last throw after an hour of chucking spears, it is only a matter of time when he surpasses
Engvall's long-standing record using just plain ol' wooden sticks for the job.
Tuukka
Tuukka
