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Nov. 21, 2018 / 10:00 AM

Human chain of ice skaters sets Guinness record

📣THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🙅‍♀️

Today we announce if we made it into the @GWR book 😲

Chain for Change raised over $146,000 for @CancerCareMBFdn and it would not have been possible without YOU!

Thank you 🙏#C4CWPG #Winnipeg #ywg pic.twitter.com/xwzsNg9YGx
— Chain for Change (@Chain4ChangeWPG) November 20, 2018

Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Guinness World Records confirmed 395 skaters set a world record when they formed a human chain on a frozen river in Canada.

The record-keeping organization said the Chain for Change project, a fundraiser for CancerCare Manitoba, gathered 395 people on the Red River Mutual Trail at the Forks in Manitoba and they skated in the form of a human chain.

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The group set the record for the longest line of ice skaters.

The event also raised more than $110,000 for the cancer charity.

The record attempt took place Feb. 4, World Cancer Day, but it took several months for Guinness to review the submitted documents and certify the record.

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