{"id":2968,"date":"2025-07-08T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/olympic-gymnast-frederick-richard-sets-new-backflipping-world-record-whilst-raising-over-60k-for-charity\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:33:47","slug":"olympic-gymnast-frederick-richard-sets-new-backflipping-world-record-whilst-raising-over-60k-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/olympic-gymnast-frederick-richard-sets-new-backflipping-world-record-whilst-raising-over-60k-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic gymnast Frederick Richard sets new backflipping world record &#8211; whilst raising over $60k for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-08 11:33:45<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Olympic gymnast Frederick Richard has become a backflipping Guinness World Record holder whilst he raised more than $60,000 for charity.<BR><br \/>\nThe Paris 2024 bronze medallist surpassed the previous 1,001 backwards somersault title as he completed 1,111 of them in 12 hours.<BR><br \/>\nFrederick&#8217;s record attempt took place where his gymnastics career began at Premier Gym in Stockton, Massachusetts &#8211; and over 55,000 people watched him perform his stunts. <BR><br \/>\nMore than 1,200 people donated to his GoFundMe crowdfunding page while the decorated athlete was trying to smash the Guinness World Record.<BR><br \/>\nSo far, he has raised $60,917 for providing professional gymnastics equipment for underprivileged kids in Africa.<BR><br \/>\nHowever, the Team USA men&#8217;s artistic gymnastics team member is keeping his GoFundMe crowdfunding page live so Frederick can hit his $100,000 target.<BR><br \/>\nAnd on the day he took home a Guinness World Records title &#8211; May 2-3 &#8211; he became an uncle.<BR><br \/>\nHe was determined to finish his backlipping action before midnight so he could visit his family and meet his new nephew, Amir.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-08 11:33:45 Olympic gymnast Frederick Richard has become a backflipping Guinness World Record holder whilst he raised more than $60,000 for charity. The Paris 2024 bronze medallist surpassed the previous&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}