'World's strongest pastor' breaks 25th world record

A 53-year-old Lutheran minister has broken a world record for strength by pulling three fire engines in Canada.

Rev Kevin Fast, who has already set 24 Guinness World Records, has now added a 25th achievement. Alongside Andrew Younghusband, a Canadian TV personality, he will be crowned with the record for 'heaviest vehicle pulled over 100 ft by a pair'.

The three trucks together weighed 82 metric tonnes.

The feat was a stunt for a new Discovery Channel documentary hosted by Younghusband, titled 'Tougher than it looks?'.

"We realised if we want to do it [break a world record] we should hook up with someone who's done it multiple times before," Younghusband told Northumberland Today.

"Kevin Fast had broken 24 records before today and we wanted to know is it tougher than it looks."

After breaking the record, the TV personality said: "It's tougher than it looks if you're a regular person. But if you're a regular person who hooks up with Kevin it's not that tough.

"Lets face facts, he did 98 per cent of the work."

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Fast has been a pastor for more than two decades, and leads St Paul's Lutheran Church in Coburg. He also regularly competes in Highland-style games.

"Most people in religious circles find it hard to believe that I do all these feats of strength. A pastor is usually small and weak," he has previously said.

"But my parishioners here at the church are always supportive. We are a nice big family and they like to hear about my exploits."

He believes his abilities are "a gift from God".

"The deal with gifts like this is you have to use them to help people otherwise it would be ungrateful," he added. "So with all my world record attempts I've always tried to raise money for charity."

Fast celebrated his 53rd birthday earlier this month by setting a world record for pulling a fire truck using only one arm.

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