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Olha Liashchuk crushed three watermelons with her thighs

AI-generated cover of three whole watermelons and one split melon on a stage platform; no person or crushing action, and not Liashchuk’s record event. Prompt: “Photorealistic vertical 4:5 editorial still life of three whole watermelons and one freshly split watermelon on a clean padded display platform at a small indoor record-event stage, juicy red flesh visible, green rind, soft spotlights, no people. Generic fruit display, not Olha Liashchuk or her record attempt. No crushing action, no text, logos or numbers.” Generated 20 October 2026.

USDA photograph of cut watermelon flesh. Author credit: USDA photo by Scott Bauer; public-domain U.S. federal government work. Original Commons record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watermelon.jpg. Original 2700×1773 px; resized proportionally to fit 1800 px and saved as optimized JPEG quality 88. Visually inspected 2026-10-18.

close-up photograph of watermelon flesh, by P.gibellini, CC BY-SA 3.0. Original Commons record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citrullus_lanatus_01.jpg. Attribution: P.gibellini, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Original 2560×1920 px; resized proportionally to fit 1800 px and saved as optimized JPEG quality 88. Visually inspected 2026-10-18.

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AI-generated cover of three whole watermelons and one split melon on a stage platform; no person or crushing action, and not Liashchuk’s record event. Prompt: “Photorealistic vertical 4:5 editorial still life of three whole watermelons and one freshly split watermelon on a clean padded display platform at a small indoor record-event stage, juicy red flesh visible, green rind, soft spotlights, no people. Generic fruit display, not Olha Liashchuk or her record attempt. No crushing action, no text, logos or numbers.” Generated 20 October 2026.

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Ukraine’s National Register of Records reports that Olha Liashchuk crushed three watermelons in succession with her thighs in Kyiv in 14.23 seconds in 2016. In 2018, the register reported that she broke her own record by crushing three watermelons in 7.59 seconds. These are records reported by Ukraine’s register; a Guinness World Records page separately describes her earlier Guinness title, with a time of 14.65 seconds in 2014. [1–3]