This is a compilation of 44 China Guinness records in 2008. You may want to take a look at our complete list of China Guinness Records broken down by year.
| When | Record name | What | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 November 2008 | Most neckties tied with a four-in-hand knot in one minute | Yu Zhenzhen | |
| 14 November 2008 | Most baseball hits in one minute | 21 total number | Takeyoshi Tominaga and Hikaru Adachi |
| 14 November 2008 | Most consecutive flips on hands held by two people | 19 total number | Zang Shibo, Jiang Tongbao and Gao Xuefeng |
| 14 November 2008 | Fastest 20 cone slalom on inline skates | Guo Fang | |
| 12 November 2008 | Longest time holding a horizontal person overhead | Rebecca Peache and Donovan Jones | |
| 12 November 2008 | Most Diabolo juggling catches on the back in one minute | 67 total number | Chen Yun |
| 10 November 2008 | Most breakdance airchair rotations | 16 total number | Antonio Spoto |
| 09 November 2008 | Most banknotes counted by hand (30 seconds) | 171 total number | Song Chao |
| 09 November 2008 | Longest duration balancing on four fingers | 19.23 second(s) | Wang Wei Bao |
| 06 November 2008 | Longest distance swam underwater with one breath | 200 metre(s) | Tom Sietas |
| 05 November 2008 | Motorcycle moving ramp jump mid air crossing farthest distance | Unknown | |
| 27 October 2008 | Largest amethyst geode | 13,000 kilogram(s) | Shandong Tianyu Museum of Natural History |
| 26 October 2008 | Largest dried bean curd | Sichuan Guozhu Bean Products Co. Ltd. | |
| 05 October 2008 | Highest waterfall diving | 12.19 metre(s) | Di Huanran |
| 28 September 2008 | Longest journey by skateboard | 12159 kilometre(s) | Robert Thomson |
| 17 September 2008 | Fastest wheelchair marathon (T52) | 1/40/7 hour(s):minute(s):second(s) | Thomas Geierspichler |
| 17 September 2008 | Most people jumping on spring loaded stilts | 103 people | Unknown |
| 17 September 2008 | Most backward flips on spring loaded stilts | 25 total number | Yuan Shiwei |
| 14 September 2008 | Fastest Paralympic 50 m freestyle (S12) (male) | Maksym Veraksa | |
| 14 September 2008 | Fastest Paralympic 50 m freestyle (S12) (female) | Oxana Savchenko | |
| 13 September 2008 | Fastest Paralympic 5,000 m (T46) (male) | 14/20.88 minute(s):second(s) | Abraham Cheruiyot Tarbei |
| 11 September 2008 | Fastest Paralympic 5,000 m (T12) (male) | 15/45.71 minute(s):second(s) | Henry Kiprono Kirwa |
| 27 August 2008 | Largest 2D beadwork | Fengxin Liu | |
| 23 August 2008 | Oldest Olympic medallist in canoeing (female) | Josefa Idem | |
| 18 August 2008 | Heaviest weightlifting 105 kg snatch (male) | 200 kilogram(s) | Andrei Aramnau |
| 17 August 2008 | Most Olympic golds at one Games (male) | 8 total number | Michael Phelps |
| 11 August 2008 | Fastest swim long course relay 4 x 100 metres freestyle (male) | 3/08.24 minute(s):second(s) | Jason Lezak, Michael Phelps, Cullen Jones, Garrett Weber–Gale |
| 10 August 2008 | Fastest swim long course 400 metres medley (male) | 04:03.84 minute(s):second(s) | Michael Phelps |
| 09 August 2008 | Oldest Olympic swimming medallist | Dara Torres | |
| 15 July 2008 | Largest Matouqin ensemble | 2008 people | Qianguo Mongolian Autonomous County |
| 23 June 2008 | Largest gathering of Olympics mascots | 508 total number | Unknown |
| 11 May 2008 | Most people playing wood block/Chinese block | Ngong Ping 360 Limited | |
| 03 May 2008 | Largest simultaneous makeover | Alpha Marketing Company | |
| 18 April 2008 | Heaviest weight lifted by a crane | 20133 tonne(s)/metric ton(s) | Unknown |
| 23 March 2008 | Largest Chinese almond cake | Civil Aid Service Hong Kong | |
| 15 March 2008 | Speed Skating, Short-track, 3,000 m (women) | 4/46.983 minute(s):second(s) | Eun-Ju Jung |
| 02 January 2008 | Largest scheelite crystal | Shandong Tianyu Natural History Museum | |
| 2008 | Most female Paralympic wheelchair basketball competitors | 120 people | Paralympic Games 2008 |
| 2008 | Longest bridge spanning open sea | Hangzhou Bay Bridge | |
| 2008 | Largest emerald in matrix | ORGACO | |
| 2008 | Heaviest manmade water strider | Tsinghua University | |
| 2008 | Largest TV audience for an Olympic Games | 4700000000 people | Beijing Olympic Games, 2008 |
| 2008 | Most swimming Olympic medals won, men (single games) | Michael Phelps | |
| 2008 | Longest distance for an Olympic torch relay | Beijing Olympic Games, 2008 |