Monday 31 December 2007

Week-commencing 25th December 2007


While Peirsol - who broke his own world record in Melbourne - is a hot favourite to defend his crown in China, Tancock (pictured above) can approach the Games with ...

Besides, the 24-year-old sprinter holds the world record in the 110-meter hurdles of 12.88 seconds. In the men's 100 meters, Tyson Gay of the United States ...

Marlon Devonish was sixth in the 100m final which was won by Tyson Gay, followed by Derrick Adkins and world record holder Asafa Powell. ...
It was two balls more than the world record of 50 runs off 17 balls held by Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya, against Pakistan in Singapore in 1996. ...

Captain Ricky Ponting kept a lid on expectations as his all-conquering Australian team edge closer to a world record number of Test ...
Best of ExplorersWeb 2007 Awards: Jason Lewis, world circumnavigation
... are standards associated with this unique world record: ground has to be covered in both hemispheres, and at least two antipodes must be reached. ...

Four-time Olympic discus gold medalist and former world record holder died on October 1 of heart failure aged 71. Oerter is considered one of the ...

1 to the record November high, the loonie rose more than 24 per cent, among the best-performing currencies in the world. Record low: 61.79 cents US on Jan. ...

Fast bowlers Daren Powell and Jerome Taylor struck hard at the South African top order as the tourists took control ...

Jamaica's 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell and Cuba's triple jump world champion Yargelis Savigne have secured the Central American and Caribbean ...
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Saturday 29 December 2007

Week commencing 20th December 2007


Dubai-based explorer set to create new record
Adrian Hayes (pictured) is set to reach the South Pole on Boxing Day and is ready to break the world record of pioneering the ‘Three Poles Challenge’ in 19 months.

A team of New Zealand and Australian shearers has set a new world mark for lamb shearing. Roger Neil from Taumarunui, Cartwright Terry from Taupo,

Campbell, the 100-metre gold medallist at the Osaka World Championship, took ninth spot in the women's poll and Powell, whose sizzling world-record equaling ...

represented Britain from 100 to 800 metres, and ranked second on the UK all-time list at 1500m only behind former world record-holder Anne Smith. ...

One the first of June last year the biodiesel powered trimaran Earthrace has abandoned her first round the world record attempt. Earthrace had left Barbados ...
Marseille swimming club have broken the men's short course 4x100m freestyle relay world record, according to the French swimming federation. ...
According to the Yuhsi Farmers' Association which launched the challenge to the existing Guinness World Record for the longest roll of sushi at 1500 meters, ...

Not so much a world record as a time that looked imperiously down on every other time in the event. Then at Seoul came a performance even more mind-boggling ...

Marseille swimming club have broken the men's short course 4x100 metres freestyle relay world record. Fabien Gilot, Gregory Mallet, ...

Staff and students at Cambrian College will support an attempt to enter the Guiness Book of World Records for the largest simultaneous walk and run by ...
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Monday 17 December 2007

Week-commencing 1st December 2007


Folks at The Villages fail to set record for world's largest kazoo ...
A bid to break the Guinness world record for the world's largest kazoo band lured more than 2000 people to this retirement community's polo ...
Photo: David Izzo, organizer of The Villages kazoo concert, plays holiday tunes recently along with Dimple Beck (left) and Carol Moore. (TOM BENITEZ, ORLANDO SENTINEL / December 8, 2007)

Sweden sets world record in men's 4x50-meter freestyle relay
Sweden set a world record Sunday in the men's 4x50-meter freestyle relay event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships. ...

Wolf breaks own 100-metre world record at speedskating World Cup
Germany's Jenny Wolf set a world record in the women's 100 metres Sunday at a speedskating World Cup with a time of 10.22 seconds. ...

Man Lives in Giant Snowglobe for 78.5 Hours, Sets World Record
Eckerson also managed to set a world record for most time spent in a giant snowglobe. ...

Jovanovic Breaks Swim World Record in Hungary
Croatia's Sanja Jovanovic has set a new world record on her way to winning a short-course swimming race at the European Championships in ...

Waddell sets 5k rowing world record
Rob Waddell has unofficially set a world record for a 5km 'erg' test, becoming the first man ever to dip under the 15-minute barrier on the stationary ...

'Smoke On The Water' Largest Guitar Ensemble World Record ...
That event was organized by Guitar World Record. The previous record of 1721 players was rather short-lived as it was set just three weeks before on June 3, ...

Shattered: Two More World Records At European Championships
Already the current world-record holder, Manaudou was out quick (1:56.31), only slightly off her world-record pace at the 200m mark. She never looked back, ...

Villagers take on Guinness World record Sunday
Ellen Hoffman, who helped organize the Guinness Record-setting The World’s Largest Golf Cart Parade on Sept. ...

Boat sets off on world record row bid
Today the crew of the row boat La Mondiale, were due to take to the water in their bid for the Atlantic world record. They will attempt to row about 3000 ...

Giant love spoon world record bid
Ed Harrison from Pontsian, Ceredigion, is attempting to break the world record for the largest wooden spoon which currently stands at 25ft 9in (7.86m). ...

Laszlo Cseh of Hungary breaks own world record in 400-meter ...
Laszlo Cseh broke his own world record Friday in the 400-meter individual medley event, his second world record in two days. ...
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