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Milutin Veljković (born 1935, Zaječar – died 2011, USA) was a Serbian speleologist, electrician, and physics student, best known for setting a new Guinness World Record for the longest consecutive time spent underground (464 days). [1] [2]
Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep.In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.
Kanakuri grew up in a rural town called Nagomi on the island of Kyūshū to a family that sold sake.Every day, he ran nearly four miles to school. [3]In November 1911, at the age of 20, Kanakuri raced in the domestic trials for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics where he reportedly set a marathon world record at 2 hours, 30 minutes and 33 seconds, although the course was just 40 km (25 mi).
The team at Guinness World Records get about 100 applicants a day and reject some 95%. Submissions, on the whole, must be measurable, breakable and provable. They may not impinge on someone else ...
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 by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
Yesterday (Sunday, January 5), Rüdiger Koch set a new world record for the longest continuous stay below the water in an underwater room. The aerospace engineer spent 101 days under the Caribbean ...
In the United States, the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term The World's Best was also briefly in use. The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running to describe good and bad performances that are not recognized as an official world record: either because it is not an event where World Athletics tracks the record (e.g. the 150 ...
A Norwegian weather presenter set a new world record for the longest weather forecast ever. The TV2 host was on air for a whopping 33 hours, smashing the previous record of 24 hours. Eli Kari ...