Thousands gather in New Zealand to set haka world record


  • World
  • Sunday, 29 Sep 2024

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands gathered at a sports stadium in New Zealand's biggest city on Sunday to set a new world record for the most people to perform a haka, a traditional Maori dance.

The mass gathering at Auckland's Eden Park was a bid to break a record of 4,028 haka participants at an event in France in 2014, the Guinness World Records website said.

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