Markham breaks Guinness World Record for longest dancing dragon
Posted October 1, 2012 8:18 am.
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Thousands of people turned out to help the city of Markham set a Guinness World Record for the longest dancing dragon on Sunday.
A huge crowd showed up at the Markham Civic Centre to bring the 5.3-kilometre dragon to life, looping back and forth across the centre’s parking lot to support the dragon’s long body.
If the dragon was stretched end to end, the Cross-Cultural Community Services Association (formerly the Toronto Chinese Community Services Association) said, it would have run along Steeles Avenue from Highway 404 to Brimley Road.
The dragon was a gift from the city of Zhongshan in China. The previous record was set at the Luoyang Peony Festival of Henan Province, China, in 2007. That dragon was 5.056 km long.