Dunking from beyond the 3-point line? World record holder makes it look easy with trampoline
For years the free-throw line has defined the outer reaches of long-distance dunking, with Julius Erving’s effort at the 1976 ABA All Star Game […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sabine Lisicki sets women’s tennis serve speed record with 131-mph sizzler
In the summer of 2014, Sabine Lisicki became the first woman to break the 130 mph speed barrier on a tennis serve, breaking Venus […]
Denise Mueller-Korenek shatters bicycle land-speed record at 184 mph on Utah’s Salt Flats
The average cyclist will rarely exceed 25 miles per hour on flat ground, and professionals max out at just over 70 mph (on downhill […]
Oh, chute! Watch Luke Aikins’ death-defying, world-record 25,000-ft skydive without a parachute
Fear of heights and fear of flying both make the top-ten list of the public’s phobias, so it’s safe to bet skydiving would also […]
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 […]
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 […]
Watch all 2,682 repetitions of 52-year-old Carlton Williams’ push-up world record
Most 52-year-olds would feel pretty pleased with themselves just being able to execute a dozen push ups in a row, but as a one-time […]
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 […]