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 […]
Max Stöckl rockets to world record for fastest MTB downhill speed at 167.6 kph (104.1 mph)
Austrian Markus “Max” Stöckl likes nothing better than to go down a slope as fast as possible and has been setting speed downhill mountain-bike […]
World record fastest badminton smashes with Tan Boon Heong and Mads Pieler Kolding
In the realm of racquet sports (badminton, fives, pelota mixteca, pickleball, racquetball, tennis, squash, table tennis, etc) none produces faster shots than badminton. While […]
Hot dam(n)! World’s highest basketball shot travels nearly 600 feet
Full-court basketball shots are made only once in a blue moon, so making one from more than twelve times that distance should be near […]
Remembering AB de Villiers’ fastest ODI century in cricket history off 31 balls
Scoring a half ton and a century are notable milestones across all forms of cricket, but doing both in record-breaking speed is the stuff […]
Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge nearly breaks marathon’s two-hour barrier
In 1954, Roger Bannister famously ran the first sub-four-minute mile with a time of 3:59.4. Fourteen years later, Jim Hines ran the first sub-ten-second […]