20 Greatest World Records in Sport History

The swimmer of the Cali Condors club – Caeleb Dressel, broke the world record in the 100-meter butterfly race during his first attempt with a record of 46.78s! In 2020, at the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the athlete from Switzerland – Armand Duplantis, set up a new world record in pole jumping with an achievement reaching up to 6.17m! the 29th FIS Ski Jumping World Cup taking place in Vikersund, Norway, the Austrian World Champion – Stefan Kraft, 23 years old, listed himself in the Guinness book with an achievement of 253.5m ski jump! At the Olympic 2012, the United States 4x100m relay team including Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Carmelita Jeter broke the world record with an achievement of 40.82s! In 1986, the javelin thrower – Uwe Hohn, made the whole world stunned with his 104.8m long throw and that is a record that cannot be beaten easily!

In Beijing 2008, the Russian pole vaulter - Yelena Isinbayeva, born in 1982, broke the female world record by making a jump of 5.05m high! Well, setting up a world record is a thing that everyone would love to achieve, right? However, that is a thing that Serge Djiehoua would never want to mention as he set up a new record by being the fastest person to receive a red card when the game just started for 3 seconds! In the hammer throwing final round of the Olympic Rio 2016 contest, Anita Wlodarczyk – from Poland, became the World Champion and set up a new record with an achievement of 82.29m, well women are also every amazing as well, right guys?

At the Summer 2012 Olympic game taking place in London, the track and field athlete born in 1985 - Aries Merritt, from America, broke the record of the 110-m race when finishing in only 12.8s! The goalkeeper – Tom King of Newport County broke the Guinness World Record in terms of making the furthest score ever reaching up to 96.01m, which beat the previous record made by Asmir Begovic! The record of long jump currently still belongs to the athlete – Mike Powell, who managed to make an 8.95m jump, which has not been beaten yet! Alexandra Trusova, 15 years old, from Russia, listed herself in the Guinness Book as she was the first figure skater to land an extremely challenging quad flip jump, and scored 161.73 points in the game between Fagiano Okayama and Yokohama FC at the second division in Japan, the defender – Ryujiro Ueda, made the longest headed goal of 58.6m, which beat the previous record made by Jone Samuelsen.

In 1987, in Roma, the high jumper - Stefka Kostadinova made the sport fans go excited as she managed to do a jump at a height of 2.09m, which is a world record and has not been beaten by any athletes in the world! So, the last moment was a high jump record of women, and now is a record made by a man. Yes, it was made by Javier Sotomayor, an athlete from Cuba, born in 1967, who set up a record of 2.45m high! This Chinese weightlifter – Li Wenwen, weighs 87kg, made such an incredible performance at the Weightlifting World Championship in 2019, with a 146kg snatch, and a 186kg clean & jerk for a 332kg total. Recently, on May/22nd/2021, a woman from Italy - Benedetta Pilato, set a new world record for the 50m breaststroke in the semi-finals of the European Swimming Championships with an achievement of 29.30s, and this really made her burst into tears because of happiness! In 1988, the American runner - Florence Griffith Joyner, set a new world record for the women’s 100-m race in a time lap of 10.49s!