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The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
Mike Powell's world record long jump at the 1991 Championships has never been bettered. Double record holder Michael Johnson has held the 400 metres world record with his run in Seville for over 20 years. Key to tables: not ratified or later rescinded by World Athletics. Note: World records in bold are current world records, those in bold ...
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
A world record in athletics is the best performance in a certain event and is denoted as "WR". Usain Bolt beating Tyson Gay and setting a 100 m world record at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin Jürgen Schult beside the indication of his new discus world record, 1986. World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics.
The championship records for the event are 3:27.65 minute for men, set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999, and 3:51.95 minutes for women, set by Sifan Hassan in 2019. [1] The world record has never been broken or equalled at the competition by either men or women, reflecting the lack of pacemaking and athletes' more tactical approach to championship ...
World champion Shericka Jackson set a new meet record in the women’s 200, finishing with a time of 21.57. After finishing third in Budapest, Joe Kovacs won in Eugene in the men’s shot put with ...
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
Two of Michael Phelps' three individual world records have been broken this week. Kristof Milak of Hungary broke Phelps' 200-meter butterfly record on Wednesday and American swimmer Caeleb Dressel ...