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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.
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 ...
He holds the Guinness World Record for the longest time to complete a marathon with a time of 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds—Kanakuri retired from the men's marathon event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics without informing the authorities, but Sveriges Television gave him the opportunity to complete his marathon in 1967.
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 ...
On Jan. 27, 1972, Indiana University student Dave Hoffman set the world record for longest shower ever taken. 'The beer helped': The legendary 174-hour shower in an IU dorm bathroom Skip to main ...
Andreas Mihavecz is an Austrian man from Bregenz who holds the record of surviving the longest without any food or liquids. His ordeal is documented in the Guinness World Records . Background
He wanted to explore it, but also to break the world record for the longest time spent consecutively underground. The previous record was held by Henri Fiout, a French man who remained underground for 109 days. [4] Veljković entered the cave on June 24, 1969, and left it 15 months later, on September 29, 1970. [5]
Uber driver Janis Rogers is now a world record holder -- and one woman's hero. She picked up a rider in Virginia and drove her nearly eight hours and 400 miles to Brooklyn, according to the New ...