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With a win against the Oakland Athletics on April 9, the Rays won their first nine games by at least four runs, which is the longest such streak to begin a season in the modern era and the longest in Major League history since the 1884 St. Louis Maroons, [96] The Rays defeated the Boston Red Sox 1–0 on April 10, ending this streak at nine games.
The longest decisive FIDE-rated game is Billy Fellowes vs Peter Lalić, London 2024, which lasted for 272 moves, at the Third Kingston Invitational. [1] [2] [3] The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by ...
Longest football match: 3 hours and 23 minutes – Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, Football League Third Division North Cup, 30 March 1946 [207] [208] [note 57] Team that played most games on the same day: 3 – Grêmio , 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho , 11 December 1994 [ 209 ] [ note 58 ]
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
A plaque commemorating the Isner–Mahut match on Court 18 at Wimbledon.. This article details longest tennis match records by duration or number of games. The 1970–1973 introduction of the tiebreak reduced the opportunity for such records to be broken.
DOHA, Qatar — The five longest games in World Cup group stage history have all taken place over the first few days of the 2022 tournament. Stoppage time has occasionally stretched beyond 10 ...
World record Mike Powell (USA) 8.95 m: Tokyo, Japan: 30 August 1991 Championship record: World Leading Jeswin Aldrin (IND) 8.42 m: Ballari, India: 2 March 2023 African Record Luvo Manyonga (RSA) 8.65 m: Potchefstroom, South Africa: 22 April 2017 Asian Record Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi (KSA) 8.48 m: Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France: 2 July 2006
The longest winning streak consisting only of playoff games stands at 12 consecutive wins, by the 1927, 1928 and 1932 New York Yankees (who swept the World Series all three seasons) and tied by the 1998–99 Yankees. According to Major League Baseball's policy on winning streaks, tie games do not end a team's winning streak. [1]