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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 ...
Harinder's achievements are mainly in sports, the latest being on 15 October 2022 when broke the world record for the highest seated box jump with 1.52 meters. On 23 May 2021, he broke the world record for the highest standing jump (one leg) with 1.384 m (4 ft 6.5 in) and on 15 March 2021 [ 4 ] he also broke the Malaysian national record for ...
Felix Baumgartner (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈbaʊ̯mˌɡaʁtnɐ]; born 20 April 1969) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. [1] He is widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.
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.
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 ...
This was a jump, not a dive. Fracture of the thoracic vertebrae and other internal injuries, no surgery. [32] 4 August 2015: Laso Schaller: Maggia, Switzerland: 58.8 m (192 ft 10 in) [33] This was a jump, not a dive. Highest dive from a high diving board and Highest Cliff Jump as per Guinness Book of World Records.
On 21 April 2014, Reffet and Fugen broke the Guinness World Record for highest BASE jump from a building, jumping 828 metres (2,717 ft) from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [9] [10] Reffet and Fugen conducted the jump with permission from the authorities and support from several sponsors. The two men jumped from a specially ...
His descent to Earth lasted 4 minutes and 27 seconds [12] and stretched nearly 26 miles (42 km) with peak speeds exceeding 822 miles per hour (1,323 km/h), [10] setting new world records for the highest free-fall jump and total free-fall distance 123,414 feet (37.617 km; 23.3739 mi). [13]