They hold onto it and push reality as far as it will go, no matter how strange, unnecessary, or even ridiculous the record ...

For more than a decade, sprinters like Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman have chased the impossible: Usain Bolt’s 100 m and 200 m world records of 9.58 s and 19.19 s. None has come close. In recent ...

A former US Air Force pilot broke a world record after whizzing on skis across an asphalt parking lot at nearly 70 mph, according to authorities. Johnny Cruz Buckingham, who already has over a dozen ...

She can hang with the best of them. A 90-year-old grandmother broke a Guinness World Record for being the oldest woman to hold a dead hang. Ann Crile Esselstyn of Ohio held her body weight for two ...

Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo broke the half marathon world record by 10 seconds on Sunday in Lisbon, Portugal. Provided the record is ratified, Kiplimo's time of 57:20 allowed him to reclaim the WR that had ...

An Australian marathon swimmer hopes to break a Guinness World Record after swimming alongside 5,500 crocodiles.