CWU student waits for word on world records

  • March 13, 2018
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He’s quiet, soft-spoken and shy by nature but when it comes to his dream of his seeing his name in the Guinness Book of World Records, Cle Elum’s Tino Rizo also is determined.

Sixteen months ago, Tino Rizo, then a recent Cle Elum-Roslyn High graduate enrolled in his freshman year at Central Washington University, stepped up to the chin up bar at Swiftwater Fitness in Cle Elum and launched a bid to set a Guinness World Record in the number of chin ups done over 24 hours.

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