| Tom Whitfield | |
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 10 ball world record holder | |
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Websites |
YouTube: Tom Whitfield |
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Highest numbers juggled |
11 balls qualified |
Tom Whitfield (born 6 December 1995)[1] is a British[2] numbers juggler living in Bristol.[3] He taught himself to flash 3 balls at the age of six,[1] and started practicing regularly when he was about 13.[3]
In 2012, Tom created juggling-records.com,[4] a website that lets jugglers track and compare their personal records. In 2018, Tom became the second person ever to qualify 11 balls.(video) In 2019, he attended the IJA festival, where he and Mark Pender-Bare won the Ball Passing Numbers competition,[5] and he was featured on the Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers list.[6] In 2020, Tom became the fourth person to juggle 9 balls for over 100 catches on video.
Tom currently holds the following world records:
- 6 balls in one hand: 19 catches in 2018 (video), tied with Dylan Tweed in 2019 (video)
- 9 balls isolated: 53 catches in 2019 (video)
- 10 balls: 39 catches in 2020 (video)
- 17 ball passing: 39 passes caught with Dave Leahy in 2019 (video)
- 18 ball passing: 29 passes caught with Dave Leahy in 2019 (video)
- 19 ball passing: 25 passes caught with Dan Wood in 2019 (video)
- 20 ball passing: 27 passes caught with Dan Wood in 2019 (video)
- 22 ball passing: 22 passes caught with Dan Wood in 2018 (video) and with Dave Leahy in 2019 (video)
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://youtu.be/kvV5Vh-vYnM?t=440
- ↑ http://www.juggling-records.com/juggler_page.php?j=001
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://youtu.be/kvV5Vh-vYnM?t=1183
- ↑ https://www.jugglingedge.com/forum.php?ThreadID=370&SmallID=2369#Small2369
- ↑ https://www.juggle.org/2019-ija-fest-review/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jejoL5G6wQs
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