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17-year-old does 7,000 pullups for Guinness World Record

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ASHKELON, ISRAEL - JANUARY 20: (ISRAEL OUT) Naftali Bennett , head of HaBayit HaYehudi Party, the Jewish Home party, does chin-ups after talking to students at a pre-army training school as he campaigns in the Shapira Center on January 20, 2013 near Ashkelon, Israel. The religious Jewish Home party is challenging Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party as Israel heads for a general election on January 22. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

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Andrew Shapiro set an athletic record that an Olympian would be proud of on Saturday.

The Virginia high school junior performed 7,360 pull-ups in 18 hours to break the Guinness World Record of 6,800 pull-ups in 24 hours from 2015, according to the Washington Post.

Shapiro was inspired by his father’s five-year battle with colon cancer and started training for the record seven months earlier, according to the report.

His next mission? Making it on “American Ninja Warrior,” which has a 21-year age minimum.

“I figure they won’t say no to someone who has the world record for pull-ups,” Shapiro said, according to the newspaper.