{"id":52747,"date":"2024-10-07T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-student-sets-new-world-record-for-longest-catwalk\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T17:04:47","slug":"nigerian-student-sets-new-world-record-for-longest-catwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-student-sets-new-world-record-for-longest-catwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian student sets new world record for longest catwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A student at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Ololade Ayelabola, has completed a new Guinness World Record, GWR, for the longest distance walked by a model.<\/p>\n<p>The model, who completed a 130.62km catwalk, started a 120km attempt on October 1 at the indoor sports centre of UNILAG.<\/p>\n<p>After hitting the 120km mark, she completed an additional 10km of walking, making 2,058 laps within the sports centre.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an Instagram post on Monday, Ayelabola said the official attempt was to showcase the country\u2019s creativity and fashion industry to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not walking for myself alone. I am walking for many models who have been limited by stereotypes and standards set by rigid systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also walking to showcase the creativity of the Nigerian fashion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayelabola \u2018s achievement is subject to verification and confirmation by the GWR.<\/p>\n<p>Her feat follows a record established by Roberta Brown and Lorraine McCourt, who walked 114.4 km (71.1 miles) in Dublin Ireland on September 21, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian student sets new world record for longest catwalk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Ololade Ayelabola, has completed a new Guinness World Record, GWR, for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25158,4,15,25159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catwalk","category-entertainment","category-news","category-world-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}