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Office-Chair Record

AI-generated cover: a generic six-caster swivel office chair on an indoor track; not the chair used in the record attempt. Prompt: “Photorealistic vertical 4:5 editorial cover about a 100-metre office-chair race. Show a generic empty black swivel office chair with six visible caster wheels on a clean indoor sports track, slight motion blur on the wheels, lane lines and a stopwatch in the background. The chair is illustrative, not André Ortolf's actual record chair. No logos, text, numbers or people.” Generated 20 October 2026.

wheeled office chair in an office; contextual image, not the chair used by André Ortolf. Photographer Wikiediter2029, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Office_Chair.jpg, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Attribution not required; credited for provenance. No edits; checked 2026-10-18.

AI-generated fictional adult in a chair-scooting challenge; staged reenactment, not André Ortolf or the 2014 attempt. Prompt: “Photorealistic vertical 4:5 editorial scene of a fictional adult in casual sportswear safely scooting forward on a generic office swivel chair in a wide empty indoor gym lane, feet on floor, hands on armrests, playful timed challenge atmosphere. This is a staged generic reenactment, not André Ortolf or the 2014 attempt. No logos, text, readable clock or people nearby.” Generated 20 October 2026.

ergonomic desk chair on casters; contextual image, not the record-attempt chair. Photographer Dezidor, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C5%BDidle_na_kole%C4%8Dkách.jpg, CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Attribution: Dezidor, “Židle na kolečkách,” CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. No edits; checked 2026-10-18.

AI-generated top-down illustration of a generic six-arm office chair base with casters; not the actual record chair. Prompt: “Photorealistic vertical 4:5 top-down editorial detail of a custom swivel office-chair base, isolated on a neutral floor. The star-shaped base has exactly six evenly spaced arms and one caster wheel at the end of each arm, all six casters clearly visible. Generic unbranded component, illustrative only, not the actual record chair. No seat, no text, no labels.” Generated 20 October 2026.

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AI-generated cover: a generic six-caster swivel office chair on an indoor track; not the chair used in the record attempt. Prompt: “Photorealistic vertical 4:5 editorial cover about a 100-metre office-chair race. Show a generic empty black swivel office chair with six visible caster wheels on a clean indoor sports track, slight motion blur on the wheels, lane lines and a stopwatch in the background. The chair is illustrative, not André Ortolf's actual record chair. No logos, text, numbers or people.” Generated 20 October 2026.

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The Guinness World Records 2018 edition lists a chair-race record among its unusual 100-metre races: 31.92 seconds. It was set by Germany’s André Ortolf on a six-wheeled swivel chair. Guinness’s official page specifies that the attempt took place in Augsburg on 15 August 2014, so the result was printed in the 2018 edition, but the attempt itself happened earlier.