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  2. Guinness World Records - Wikipedia

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    Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

  3. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of discontinued Guinness World Records - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, a "human mole" named Geoff Smith remained underground for 147 days in order to achieve the Guinness record and beat his mother's 101-day stint. Guinness denied the award for safety reasons, and Geoff stated "There are far more dangerous things in the book. There is a record for a man who eats cars." [6] [11] [12] [13]

  5. 2009 World Championships in Athletics - Wikipedia

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    In the men's 100 metres dash, Usain Bolt broke his own 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.58. [citation needed] The defending world champion, Tyson Gay finished second with a time of 9.71, a US national record. [35] Britain's Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon title with a world-leading points score of 6731. [36]

  6. Index of athletics record progressions - Wikipedia

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    Toggle World records subsection. 1.1 Track events. 1.2 Field events. ... IAAF Statistics Book 2009 – World record progressions (Men's from page 202–222, ...

  7. Guinness World Records that have never been broken - AOL

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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 ...

  8. 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

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    The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder.

  9. 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres

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    The men's 200 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany on August 18 and August 20. The winning margin was 0.62 seconds which as of 2024 is the only time the men's 200 metres has been won by more than half a second at these championships.

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