Georgian President's Son Claims Guinness World Record

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's 15-year-old son has joined his father as a global leader - by acquiring the world record for speed typing on an iPad.

Eduard Saakashvili achieved a world record for typing the English alphabet on an iPad in 5.26 seconds - an development of 1.05 seconds on the earlier record set by British teenager Charlie Joseph McDonnell in 2010.

The remarkable feat was documented by an observer from Guinness World Records in the former Soviet republic's Black Sea resort of Batumi.


'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 strange event.

'Our whole family has been anxious. I am a very proud mummy today,' said President Saakashvili's Dutch wife, Sandra Roelofs.

In March, the Georgian leader's younger son, five-year-old Nikoloz, also fascinated media attention when he and his father donned military fatigues for a training assembly at a military base in an unusual attempt to endorse the country's armed forces.