After 48 and a half hours of lying down, the three finalists of the competition for the biggest dzabalebaroš fifteen-year-old Irena Marković from Podgorica, two years older Vukašin Vračar from Danilovgrad and eighteen-year-old Veljko Bojanić from Nikšić decided to get up together.
The organizer of the lying down competition decided to reward all three finalists with 200 euros instead of a total prize of 100 euros.
The contestants look cheerful, rested, but they were waiting in line in front of the toilet because it is no small thing to lie down for two days and two nights without interruption.
Ivana Stanković from Belgrade, after breaking the record held by Marko Đurović from Podgorica since 2014, who lay down for 37 hours, had to admit that Montenegrins are indisputable bed rests and get up after a little more than 39 hours.
First she went to the toilet and then to the fresh air.
"Since the three of them are still children, I'm 26 years old, I thought I'd be a little 'smarter' and get up so maybe they would get up too." However, it looks like it won't happen soon. My goal was to break the record and I guess it's on a psychological basis, until that happened I didn't feel the need to go to the toilet. The team is really great, we had a lot of fun and who knows, maybe I'll decide to lie down for a few more years", Ivana told "Vijesta" after getting up.
Although the youngest Irena is firm in her decision to win. Her mother Hilda also supports her in this.
"Given her temperament and her competitive spirit, I expected her to last a long time. I believed in her and knew that she would not give up quickly", said Hilda Marković.
Her seventeen-year-old daughter Mirjana also started the competition, but she gave up yesterday morning.
"Honestly, I didn't expect to be able to last this long, but I did my best and there's no giving up," said Irena, to whom the organizers of the competition will have to write an excuse because she won't be going to school today either.
She is in the first class of the Medical School. And Vukašin, who attends the "Petar I Petrović Njegoš" gymnasium in Danilovgrad, will need justification.
"I knew that I had this much potential and that I could endure for a long time," Vukašin told "Vijesti" with a smile.
Veljko graduated from the Maritime High School in Kotor, and as he said, he expected to be able to lie down for a long time.
This was not expected by Milonja Blagojević, one of the organizers and owners of the ethnic village "Montenegro", in Gornji Brezni in Piva, where the competition has been held for the sixth year in a row.
"We have been organizing the competition for six years and we have never had a team like this before. I did not expect them to last this long because they are very young. I even suggested that they get up, fearing for their health, asked if I should call the doctors, but they and their mothers say that they don't need to and that they feel fine," said Milonja.
Yesterday, at one point, four competitors and three mothers were lying down. It is easier for the combined forces to endure even lying down.
Because of such a good team, Blagojević decided to change the awards as well. The biggest Djabalebaro was supposed to receive 200 euros, the second-placed weekend in the ethnic village, while the one who took third place was planned to go rafting on Tara.
"We decided to reward all four who broke the record and endured this long with a weekend for two in our ethnic village and rafting, while the first place winner will also receive 200 euros. It's a really amazing team," Blagojević said.
On Sunday morning, ten of them fell asleep - Dragana Tasić from Knjaževac and Tadija Tijanić from Brezan, who quickly gave up the competition, Tanja Božović and Dejan Todorović from Nikšić, who got up after a few hours, and Bojan Bigović, also from Nikšić, who during the night on Sunday night he was disqualified for breaking the rules. And the rules are simple - lie down and only lie down.
Yesterday's champion Marko Đurovic congratulated the contestants on the Facebook page of the ethnic village for breaking the record and said that he might apply for the competition next year. "Perhaps the borders will move again," said Đurović.
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