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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, Duplantis surpassed Bubka's outdoor world best (the old 6.14 m record), with a 6.15 m vault and continued to improve the world record thereafter, most recently in 2024 ...
A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Valeriy Brumel's high jump world record of 2.25 m set on 31 August 1961. The first world record in the men's high jump was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 1912. As of June, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 40 world records in the ...
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.
IAU 24 Hour World Championships Brive-la-Gaillarde, France [18] [19] 110 m hurdles: 13.04 (−0.9 m/s) Shunsuke Izumiya: 4 June 2023 Japanese Championships: Osaka, Japan [20] 13.04 (−0.9 m/s) Rachid Muratake: 16 September 2023 92nd Japan Inter-University Championships Kumagaya, Japan 200 m hurdles: 22.55 Yoshiro Watanabe: 1 October 2017 Itami ...
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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 ...
Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.Some events, such as rowing, occur under variable weather conditions that can unfairly benefit an athlete's performance through no fault of their own.
New York is home to 436 Guinness World Record holders, nearly 8% of all the risk-takers in the country and second only to California's 615. New Yorkers land spots in 2025 Guinness World Records ...