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A claw machine in Ustroń, Poland. A claw machine is a type of arcade game.Modern claw machines are upright cabinets with glass boxes that are lit from the inside and have a joystick-controlled claw at the top, which is coin-operated and positioned over a pile of prizes, dropped into the pile, and picked up to unload the prize or lack thereof into a chute.
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.
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.
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 the IAAF tracks the record (e.g. the 150 m run ...
Record mark: T35 vacant: T36 vacant: T37 vacant: T38 vacant: T45 vacant: T46 vacant: T51 vacant: T52 14:47.55 Marieke Vervoort Belgium 18 May 2014 Nottwil, Switzerland [193] T53/54 10:25.00 Susannah Scaroni United States 8 June 2024 World Para Athletics Grand Prix Nottwil, Switzerland [195] T61 vacant: T62 vacant: T63 vacant: T64 18:43.36 ...
Kidz Village programs its claw machine to make sure all the children who play it come out winners. So if you thought this was a game of skill, think again; your machine could be rigged. But that ...
Keg toss – 12.5 kg (28 lb) over 8.54 metres (28 ft 0 in) (2014 New Hampshire Highland Games) (World Record) [90] Hafþór has broken this world record a total of 7 times with both 'American 15.5 gallon keg' as performed during 2014 New Hampshire Highland Games [91] and 'European 50 litre keg' as performed during 2014 SCL China's Guinness ...
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