Category: World records • Guinness World Records

Athletics • Chess • Cricket (Test - One Day International) • Cycling • Formula One motorsport • World Rally Championship • Speed Skating • Swimming

In track and field: 100 metres men, 100 metres women
In Australia: List of NRL records
A world record is the best performance in a certain discipline, usually a sports event. ... Guinness World Records 2008 edition. ... This is a list of the heaviest people recorded. ... The following tables list only the oldest verified people in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. ... Asafa Powell of Jamaica. ... Some World records in the game of chess (as played in serious tournaments): // Longest game The longest tournament chess game ever to be played under modern time rules was Nikolić - Arsović, Belgrade, 1989, which lasted for 45 hours and 23 minutes with a 1000 move draw. ... This list of first-class cricket records shows some record team and individual performances in first-class cricket. ... This is a list of Test cricket records; that is, record team and individual performances in Test cricket. ... This is a list of One-Day International cricket records, that is record team and individual performances in One-Day International (ODI) cricket. ... This is a list of certified and recognised cycling records as recognised by the Union Cycliste Internationale, International Human Powered Vehicle Association, Guinness World Records, International Olympic Committee or other accepted authorities. ... A driver is considered to be entered into a race if they attempt to compete in at least one official practice session with the intent of entering the race. ... This is a list of records in the World Rally Championship. ... This list of speed skating records is an overview of the current speed skating records in the various events in the speed skating sport. ... World records in swimming are ratified by the International Swimming Federation (FINA). ... The first world record in the 100 m for men (athletics) was recognised by the International Amateur Athletics Federation, now known as the International Association of Athletics Federations, in 1912. ... The first World Record in the 100 m for women (athletics (track and field)) was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1922. ... This is a selection of records from the major rugby league competitions of Australia. ...

In the US: NBA • NFL (individual) • NFL (team)• NHL • MLB • Track and field

Speed : Air (Transcontinental) • Land speed record (Railed • Road car • Motorcycle • British) • Water speed record (Underwater) • Sound barrier • Speed of light

Distance : Flight distance record • Flight altitude record • Ocean depth record • Flight endurance record • Boundary of space This article lists all-time leading figures achieved in the National Basketball Association in every major statistical category recognized by the league. ... This is a list of individual National Football League records. ... This is a list of team NFL records. ... NHL records may refer to: NHL individual records NHL team records List of National Hockey League statistical leaders List of NHL statistical leaders by country ... Home Runs Hits Batting Average Runs Batted In (RBI) Runs Wins Earned Run Average (ERA) Strikeouts Saves ... US records in track & field // This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... This page lists national records achieved by people, groups or institutions from the United States of America, or achievements within a contest or chart limited to the USA, for instance the Billboard music charts. ... US records in track & field // This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The SR-71 Blackbird is the current record holder. ... Transcontinental air speed record In-flight and on-ground time is counted 1929 Frank Hawks 1937 Howard Hughes Junior transcontinental air speed record For the junior record only in-flight time is counted 1929 Richard James 1930 Stanley Boynton East to West, 24 hours, 2 minutes in 6 days 1930... Ralph DePalma in his Packard 905 Special at Daytona Beach in 1919, courtesy Florida Photographic Collection For the album Land Speed Record by the band Hüsker Dü, see Land Speed Record (album). ... JR-Maglev MLX01 at Yamanashi. ... Fast Cars redirects here. ... The motorcycle land speed record is the fastest speed achieved by a motorcycle on land. ... Model of Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam, New South Wales, Australia The World Unlimited water speed record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle. ... Since most high speed underwater travel is done by military submarines, this is a somewhat difficult subject to research. ... U.S. Navy F/A-18 breaking the sound barrier. ... A line showing the speed of light on a scale model of Earth and the Moon, taking about 1â…“ seconds to traverse that distance. ... Distance is a numerical description of how far apart objects are at any given moment in time. ... Flight distance records without refueling. ... These are the records set for going the highest in the atmosphere from the age of ballooning onward. ... The bathyscaphe Trieste Trieste was a Swiss-designed deep-diving research bathyscaphe (deep boat) with a crew of two people, which reached a record-breaking depth of about 10,900 m (about 35,760 ft), in the deepest part of any ocean on earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana... The flight endurance record is the amount of time spent in the air. ... Edge of space redirects here. ...

Other : Spaceflight records FAI records

Extremes on Earth • List of weather records