Hungarian swimming phenom Kristof Milak shatters Michael Phelps’ 200m fly world record
Legendary swimmer Michael Phelps first broke the 200 meter butterfly world record on March 20, 2001 when he swam the event in 1:54.92 at […]
Fail Friday Follies: Pole vaulting world records and world wreckers
Centuries ago, pole vaulting originated in the Netherlands as a means to cross canals and marshy areas without getting one’s wooden shoes all mucked […]
British biscuit dipper Simon Berry snatches bungee world record from American donut dunker
Dipping a biscuit in a cup of tea isn’t always a cup of tea — at least not for Simon Berry. Suspended from a […]
Hopping Humans: Is it possible to execute a box jump in excess of one’s height?
Until the advent of CrossFit, the standing box jump was not really a metric by which one gauged his or her prowess in the […]
105-year-old Japanese sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki still holds 100-meter dash world record
Japan’s Hidekichi Miyazaki didn’t start running until he was in his 90s, but he wasted little time in rewriting the record books for sprinters […]
Shoes? Andrew Snope don’t need no stinkin’ shoes — he runs barefoot 137 miles in 24 hours
Nike and Reebok’s worst nightmare may be the appendages attached at birth to legs everywhere, otherwise known as feet. As barefoot running grows in […]
Little Mermaids: Veronika Kravtcova bests Marina Kazankova for longest underwater swim record
In Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid”, the titular heroine longs to become human after rescuing a drowning prince. Russia’s Veronika Kravtcova […]
Air Miles Galore: Miles Daisher sets world record with 63 BASE jumps in 24 hours
Most people will never go sky diving over the course of their lifetime, let alone attempt a BASE jump. Miles Daisher, on the other […]
Dana Glowacka breaks world record for longest time in plank position (female)
Anyone who has ever attended a pilates class can attest to how devilishly hard it can be to hold the plank position for one […]
Long Way Home: World’s longest bicycle stretches nearly half a football field in length
What has as many as 40 legs, two wheels and is over 130 feet long? It may sound like a riddle with which a […]
Watch all 26 consecutive reps from Maksim Trukhonovets’ muscle-up world record
If muscle ups are to pull ups as quantum physics is to physics, then Maksim Trukhonovets is the Albert Einstein of the strenuous exercise […]
Speedo ad features competitive 95-year-old swimmer Jurgen Schmidt
Jurgen Schmidt, the star of Speedo ad from two years ago, is a competitive swimmer from Huntington Beach, California, who logs an impressive 2,000 […]