Kelvin Kiptum broke Eliud Kipchoge’s world record in Chicago but had misgivings about contesting the marathon until 2022 When Kelvin Kiptum lined up for his first major local competition in 2018, Kenya’s new marathon icon did it in borrowed running shoes because he could not afford a pair of his […]
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CNN — The Carolina Reaper has met its match. Chili Pepper X has captured the spicy record as the world’s hottest, Guinness World Records announced on Monday. The new pepper rates an average of 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests performed by Winthrop University in South Carolina, […]
Athletics – World Athletics Championship – Women’s 1500m Final – National Athletics Centre, Budapest, Hungary – August 22, 2023 Silver medallist Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji reacts after the final REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Oct 1 (Reuters) – Two road world records tumbled on Sunday when American Hobbs Kessler surged […]
Famed mountaineer Reinhold Messner has been left outraged after he was stripped of his two Guinness World Records – after an amateur expert claimed he had accidentally come up 15ft short of a Himalayan summit. Messner, 79, from South Tyrol in Italy, is considered to be one of the greatest […]
NEW YORK — Do you know the highest average grossing movie franchise in history? That’s easy, “Avatar.” What about the record for the most balloons popped in one minute by a pogostick? Or the longest journey in a pumpkin boat? These and many more superlatives are in the latest edition […]
Many people have at some point considered how they might want to make history. They may want into enter politics to change the world, set up a charity to help others, or reach the pinnacle of their chosen sport. Or they might decide to grow the world’s biggest ever afro […]
A Russian free-diver who already had at least 25 world records under his belt may have just smashed two more after descending 442 ft on a single breath twice. Alexey Molchanov, 36, undertook two dives on Friday and Saturday at the world’s second-deepest marine cavern, Dean’s Blue Hole in the […]
Cristiano Ronaldo receives Guinness World Records certificate ahead of his 200th appearance for Portugal in qualifier against Iceland… before netting 89th-minute winner! By Jeorge Bird For Mailonline Published: 21:26 BST, 20 June 2023 | Updated: 23:37 BST, 20 June 2023 Cristiano Ronaldo has always relished a sense of occasion and struck […]