Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s 15-year-old son on Tuesday joined his father as a global leader — by claiming the world record for speed typing on an iPad.<\/p>\n
Eduard Saakashvili achieved a world record for typing the English alphabet on an iPad in 5.26 seconds — an improvement of 1.05 seconds on the previous record set by British teenager Charlie Joseph McDonnell in 2010.<\/p>\n
The unusual feat was documented by an observer from Guinness World Records in the former Soviet republic’s Black Sea resort of Batumi.<\/p>\n
“I am very happy,” Eduard said in comments broadcast by Georgian television after the finger-busting workout, explaining that he had spent months getting ready for the unusual event.<\/p>\n
“Our whole family has been nervous. I am a very proud mummy today,” said President Saakashvili’s Dutch wife, Sandra Roelofs, who watched her son’s triumph.<\/p>\n
In March the Georgian leader’s younger son, five-year-old Nikoloz, also attracted media attention when he and his father donned military fatigues for a training session at a military base in an unusual attempt to promote the country’s armed forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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