How To Use World record In A Sentence
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World recordholder Aaron Peirsol was upset in the 100 backstroke, narrowly losing to David Plummer, a 24-year-old swimmer from Minnetonka, Minn., who won the first national title of his career.
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Aaron Peirsol also defended his title taking the gold in the men's 100 meter backstroke and breaking the world record.
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It marked the first time an American woman had set the 100 meter backstroke world record in nearly 34 years.
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German Sandra Voelker set a new women's 50m backstroke world record in the preliminary heats of the national championships in Berlin.
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The 1996 Olympic champion in the 100 backstroke held the world record in the event from 1991-99.
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Lenny Krayzelburg, the American who holds the world record of 24.99 in the 50 backstroke, is recovering from shoulder surgery and is not competing.
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The distance he covered was one mile, and he did it in 24 minutes 36 seconds, a new world record.
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He succeeded in his attempt to break the world record.
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A chef checks his charge during preparations for a feast near Asuncion, Paraguay. The barbeque was meant to shatter the world record for the globe's largest grill-off.
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The field includes three world record holders.
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Simultaneously, his urge to challenge the limits prodded him to attempt breaking world records.
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New world records in the track and field events are chalked up from time to time in the past few years.
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Although Armenian authorities said that they will apply to Guinness World Records to officially confirm that the tramway is the world's longest, they say it was primarily built for practical use.
The Seattle Times
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The French team are within striking distance of the world record.
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Shepherd dedicated herself to morphing "from a 'prissy' woman who never exercised to the Guinness Book of World Records 'oldest female bodybuilder," ABC News reports.
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His triple salto in the floor exercises alone is a world record in gymnastics.
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As Radcliffe shattered a world record in each one it appeared that she became more and more strangled by her own expectations and those of others.
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‘I wanted to beat the world record but there was so much pressure on me and Jamie,’ he said.
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His sporting heroes are Paula Radcliffe and World Record 200 metres holder Michael Johnston.
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But in checking my thick copy of the IGFA's "2009 World Record Game Fishes" book, I see that 12 out of 15 possible IGFA state records for my home state of Vermont are vacant.
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It is exciting to set a world record and a great feeling of exhilaration.
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We hear you're a world record holder?
The Sun
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It would be nice to go faster and break the world record.
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The pair would go on to trade world records in middle-distance running.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm are best remembered for Jim Thorpe's world record successes in the most demanding track and field events, the pentathlon and the decathlon.
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One hundred wingsuit skydivers fall to earth in a diamond formation during a world record attempt above Perris Valley in Southern California.
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The company - till their bankruptcy in 1993-was the world leader and was in the possession of all world records concerning heavy cable-laid slings and grommets.
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He had hoped to set a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.
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Powell, the former world recordholder, said that his team had launched an internal investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The time is 10 seconds slower than her world record set at the Olympics two years ago.
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She holds the trump card after breaking the world record three times this year.
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After all, you've gotta admit you'd easily set a world record for longest chat on a cordless if left on your own.
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The cheer that resonates around arenas as races are won and world records are broken is always accompanied by the lingering doubt that the feats are enhanced by drugs.
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When you set a world record at the age of only 12, expectations for the future become correspondingly high.
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He insists that the denizens at the Guinness Book of World Records have given him the permission for the talkathon and were even watching his event closely.
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The timekeepers were unable to separate the world record holder and the Jamaican, after the pair crossed the line shoulder-to-shoulder in 7.58s.
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While I have no objection to trying to get that trophy or the world record in fishing or hunting for that matter, it can create a significate misnomer about the sport and what we are all out there doing.
Dropping The Hammer (Again)
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A freshening north-easterly brought three new world records and a stunning British win on the second day of heats here yesterday.
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He set world records for the 800 metres and 880 yards in the same race at Christchurch and the mile at Cooks Garden, Wanganui.
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Who holds the world record for the long jump?
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They now hope to break world records for playing tiddlywinks and for ‘winking’ a mile in the fastest time.
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She set out to break the world record.
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The world record for the lowest tropical cyclone pressure is 870 millibars in Typhoon Tip in the northwest Pacific Ocean on Oct. 12, 1979.
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No official measurement is recorded but he could be as tall on his hind legs as world record holder Zeus.
The Sun
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She is also world champion and world recordholder for the women's arms-only single scull in rowing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exhausted cyclist Sarah Ulmer is still on a high from taking gold at the Olympics in world record time.
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He had hoped to set a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.
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No world records were registered in Lisbon 1994, Annecy 1998 and Santiago de Chile two years ago.
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Lord Coe holds four Olympic medals and eight world records in middle-distance running.
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Denis Nizhegorodov of Russia, the silver medalist from the Athens Games and world record holder, took bronze Friday.
Italy's Schwazer wins 50-kilometer walk
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They want the television to have athletic competitions with the world record holders there for the finals.
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In June, Dayron Robles, a bespectacled Cuban, shaved one-hundredth of a second off of Liu's world record. The Chinese was going into the Beijing Olympics as the underdog.
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Gregg Arnold, a local guide based in New Orleans who has caught several state and IGFA world record redfish from the Biloxi Marsh, about an hour’s drive from the city in St. Bernard Parish.
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She holds the world record for the 100 metres.
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The champion ran well enough but she would have set up another world record indeed if she had tried harder.
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The fact that this most coveted world record has been held by left-handers for the last 47 years fuels the decade old theory that left-handers, as a rule, are more gifted than the orthodox right-handers.
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It appeared the height of hubris: No man or woman had set a world record in New York since 1980, when the late Grete Waitz firmly established herself as an all-time great.
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The Australians were way short of beating their own new world record, but the weather was a little cooler and the wind a little more blustery.
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World records tumbled at the last Olympics.
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Eddie "Bozo" Miller was once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's greatest trencherman.
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He holds the world record for conkers by demolishing 306 in an hour, but has not yet won the Irish title.
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The world record has come down by about two minutes over multiple attempts across a decade.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the weekend, Olympic champions won more World Cup honors in freestyle skiing and speedskating, American track and field athletes won World Indoor titles in dramatic fashion, and an NCAAathlete broke the world record in the men's indoor heptathlon.
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Gillian is now the holder of two world records having set a new record in the outdoor 5000m in Dublin last summer.
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They hope to get 350 people to parachute in 24 hours to set a tandem jump world record.
The Sun
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Imagine how exciting it was to watch this British athlete set a world record and beat a world superstar.
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Kim, who claimed Olympic gold with world record scores, saw her hopes of defending her world title dwindle as she blamed foot problems for placing over ten points behind US teenager Mirai Nagasu who leads going into Saturday's free skating final.
Raw Story
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It used to be described as the bread basket of southern Africa, with neat fields of maize and soya growing in rich red soil and farmers notching up world records for yields.
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He had hoped to set a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.
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A fitness fanatic has broken the world record for the most chin-ups done in one hour.
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His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second.
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NO world records were set, but Wangaratta's Viva Italia festival will still go down in history for being "magnifico" at the weekend.
The Border Mail
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He has set 18 world records, won four world championship golds and twice been Olympic champion over 10,000m.
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The most recent world records by Ian Thorpe in the 200 and 400 meter freestyles are the latest testaments to the strength of freestyle swimming by Australians.
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She holds the world record for the long jump.
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In order to achieve a world record and generate a stunning effect, we defy great risks, even hazarding our lives.
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The seemingly inexorable march of new world records may be coming to a halt.
Times, Sunday Times
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After slicing eight-seconds off her own world record, Chantel swam to Telstra Olympic Trials victory in the 400m freestyle multi disability event at the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
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Khagendra Thapa Magar, 17, stands a little over two feet tall, and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world's shortest teenager, reports Kilmeny Duchardt at Reuters.
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Locals like to boast that "Abkhazia used to beat the world record on the number of secret agents per capita, " says Lavrik Mikvabia, a colonel in the Abkhaz border guard.
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The fact that this most coveted world record has been held by left-handers for the last 47 years fuels the decades-old theory that left-handers, as a rule, are more gifted than the orthodox right-handers.
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It beat the previous world record for Chinese porcelain of 20million.
The Sun
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Fantasy goals can be anything from running in the Olympics to breaking a world record or winning the Boston Marathon.
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It is hoped that a new world record will be set with thirteen threshing mills operating at once.
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It would be nice to go faster and break the world record.
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It would be nice to go faster and break the world record.
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In a close-run race, he finished second and claimed a world record for the number of miles sailed by a monohull boat in 24 hours.
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Pusuke, a male cross-breed, was recognized as the oldest dog in the world by Guinness Book of World Records in December last year, reports ABC News.
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As I talked about at the beginning, we'll see these super athletes who can slash the current world records, who will provide a more thrilling display for us to watch.
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He set the racing world on its ear by breaking eight world records.
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Mr. Alex was already a record holder in the Guinness Book of World Records for his 24-hour non-stop performance, Mr. Appadurai said.
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Joachim is a Canadian of Sri Lankan descent, who holds 32 Guinness World Records.
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Violet, of King's Road, Westcliff, will attend a party organised by David Amess, MP for Southend West, at which the town's centenarians will celebrate together in an attempt to set a world record.
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World champions Australia will be running scared after the British quartet set an unofficial world record in training last week.
The Sun
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She had the added incentive of being within reach of the world record.
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A freshening north-easterly brought three new world records and a stunning British win on the second day of heats here yesterday.
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Poppadoms were fresh and crisp, as you would expect of a restaurant that holds the world record for the tallest static poppadom tower.
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Thompson has held world records in four different events, but she hasn't won an individual gold.
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(PETERBOROUGH) As Canadians coast-to-coast anticipate new world records being set in Vancouver starting this weekend, Peterborough city and county residents have set a record right here at home.
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Athletes from lowland countries faltered while more acclimatised competitors broke world records.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coughlin, the world record holder and reigning Olympic champion, had to settle for third.
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In the old-world record industry, a Beethoven cycle was the highest accolade that could be granted to a maestro.
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He also helped set three relay world records and lowered his own mark in the 400 freestyle.
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His world record of 18.29m appears to be under no threat for the time being, but motivation is now a problem.
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The French team are within striking distance of the world record.
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Of course, there was harm done in that twenty-four hour unicycling marathon that took him to the world record.
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The seemingly inexorable march of new world records may be coming to a halt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Games in Melbourne next month after six sizzling days of trials that brought four world records for a squad of women fast emerging as seemingly invincible.
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This two-sided involvement in Third World affairs led to his cofounding of the WOMAD (World of Music, Arts, and Dance) Festival in 1982 and Real World Records in 1989.
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The other three world records were equally as stunning as they were meaningless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Professional thrill-seeker David Blaine set a new world record for breath holding on Oprah on Wednesday.
David Blaine “Oprah” April 30th Guinness Underwater Breath Holding Record
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Last week in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Dragila reclaimed the outdoor world record with her leap of 15-10.
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Last year Michael Skinner helped pace a World record in the two-mile race.
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He has already said he will try to break the world record.
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He had hoped to set a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.
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The entrepreneur, famed for his love of daredevil world record attempts, said he hoped to be aboard the first tourist flight into space.
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All schools that took part will receive a certificate confirming their success in winning the world record.
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Joyner-Kersee is the heptathlon world record-holder and American record-holder in the long jump.
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A fitness fanatic smashed a world record for endurance running on a treadmill yesterday, by clocking up almost 150 miles in just 48 hours.
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Young songsters from York and North Yorkshire have smashed the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simultaneous sing.
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Mr. Alex was already a record holder in the Guinness Book of World Records for his 24-hour non-stop performance, Mr. Appadurai said.
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Its flagship, The Daily Mirror, achieved a world record circulation of more than five million in the mid-1960s.
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It is not surprising, therefore, that world records are generally broken in the afternoon, not during the night.
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The strong field includes three world record holders.
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He planned to shatter the world record for time spent underwater by a single person using scuba equipment.
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Kyodo/Reuters A male cross-breed dog Pusuke, who was listed as the oldest living dog in the Guinness Book of World Records, was seen in Sakura, north of Tokyo, in 2010.
Asia in Pictures
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it was a world record clocking
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The 35-year-old added the world title to his Olympic crown and his world record and admitted afterwards that there is more to come.
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Yes | No | Report from tracy atchison wrote 9 weeks 3 days ago ishot a 230 in nontypical this year with muzzleloader it grossed 193 typical with 7 in of main beam broke off no offense to this deer but there not even comparible id sure like to have the guy that scored this one to score mine id have the new world record
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OK, so Michael Phelps won six gold medals as a 19-year-old in 2004, America's Janet Evans won three gold medals as a just-turned 16-year-old in 1988, and for nearly two decades nobody broke the pair of world records that 17-year-old Mary T. Meagher, an American butterflyer, set in 1981.
Gray Beards Swim for Gold
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Dr Roger Bannister clipped a second off the world record in a legendary 1954 race in Oxford.
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Read in studio A world record has been set for tight rope walking between two hot air balloons.
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Devotees do go recreational freediving in Australia, but finding the right combination of depth and calm seas makes world record attempts impossible.
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‘I wanted to beat the world record but there was so much pressure on me and Jamie,’ he said.
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Fyodor Vassilyev of Shuya, Russia gave birth to 16 sets of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets - a world record.
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Highlights: Aaron Peirsol wins the 200 back in commanding fashion before being briefly disqualified for an illegal turn; the DQ is overturned due to a blank judge's report; the U.S. men go 1-2 in the 200 IM, as Ryan Lochte turns in a gutsy free leg to move up behind winner Michael Phelps and Auburn University-based George Bovell claims Trinidad & Tobago's first swimming medal; Amanda Beard wins her first individual gold medal in the 200 breast; Natalie Coughlin touches third in 100 free behind world record holder Jodie Henry (Australia) and former world record holde Inge de Bruijn (Netherlands).
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The first world record came the following year.
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It's a genetic mutation called polydactylism and even though it's two toes shy of a Guinness World Records number, it's helping Milwaukee shelter officials raise money to buy a new home after they learned their rent was being doubled.
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In a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, the orchestra had also staged a continuous, marathon non-stop performance for 36 hours.
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She broke the world record for the broad jump.
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With each gold he set a world record.
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But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes, spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time.
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He sliced two seconds off the world record.
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There was more than one Bluebird, a point increasingly forgotten with recent media concentration on Donald Campell's fatal world record attempt in 1967 and the recent raising of the wreck from the Coniston lakebed.
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Wish u best of luck Tunisian leady, May u make world record with healthy alive kids
A Tunisian Woman will soon make world record by giving birth to 12
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The possibility of breaking the world record never occurred to him.
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It would be nice to go faster and break the world record.
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But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes, spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time.
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Within barely an hour of the first gun, a world record had fallen to a Belgian breaststroker.
Georgia On Our Minds
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In 1978 he set a world record in 400m Freestyle and then came the Moscow triumph which pitchforked him among the greats.
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The artist holds the Guinness world record for the largest art installation made entirely from coat hangers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Roger Kingdom set the world record of 12.92 seconds.
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Who holds the world record for the long jump?
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In devastating form this year, the 21-year-old Cuban from the music-loving province of Guantanamo snatched Liu's world record with a run of 12.87 seconds in June and looks in top form in Beijing.
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So he approached Reynolds and asked to use the plane for a solo attempt on the world record.
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In devastating form this year, the 21-year-old Cuban from the music-loving province of Guantanamo snatched Liu's world record with a run of 12.87 seconds in June and looks in top form in Beijing.
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A woman from London has set a new freediving world record after swimming 96m 318ft below the surface of the ocean and back in a single breath.
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He hopes one day to surpass the world record.
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In a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, the orchestra had also staged a continuous, marathon non-stop performance for 36 hours.
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He set a new world record for the marathon.
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England rugby legend Jason Leonard is set to extend his international career for one match only - without adding to his world record haul of 114 caps, writes Scott Amos.
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The winner cut ten seconds off the world record.
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She has just set a new world record.
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The artist holds the Guinness world record for the largest art installation made entirely from coat hangers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Green's new world record will take some beating.
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The Frenchman precedes him, but his gaze remains fixed straight ahead as the world record-holder sets off.
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He has won four world titles and holds the world record over the 1,500 and its imperial equivalent, the mile.
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They did it in the same fashion, clocking a world record to defeat the US.
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The first year of the new century saw an unprecedented bounty of world records as well as continued heated controversy over the issues of illegal drugs and the new, high-tech bodysuits.
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A World record-holding daredevil wing walker is set to be just one of the airborne attractions to thrill the crowds at the Evening Press sponsored 2002 Yorkshire Air Show.
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The French team are within striking distance of the world record.
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The dish, inspired by cuisine from Hyderabad in southern India, includes the Naga and its seeds -- confirmed by Guinness World Records as the hottest chilli pepper in the world.
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Heinrich won the event in six hours, 38 minutes, and 21 seconds, setting a U.S. record and a masters world record that remains unbroken.
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Lewis equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds.
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Powell, the former world recordholder, said that his team had launched an internal investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Q3:Romanian female high jump athlete Iolanda Balas became the top player between 1957 and 1968 in her event. How many times did she break the world record during that time?
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Dreschler secured a new world record in the 200 metres and also took gold in the long jump.
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But it was the 1,000m world record holder's reaction to the victory that served as a magnet for the cameras - he broke down in tears.
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Xtreme Systems honcho Charles 'Fugger' Wirth teamed up with Corsair, Gigabyte and Intel to break the 3DMark05 world record, stealing it back from
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The fun run set the world record for the largest gathering of Santas in one place.
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She hopes to have another crack at the world record this year.
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The champion ran well enough but she would have set up another world record indeed if she had tried harder.
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When an athlete breaks a world record, the previous record-holder's title is eclipsed.
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She broke her own world record in the 200-meter individual medley three times.
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In the final race of the evening, Bekele was paced by his brother Tariku to well within world record pace by the halfway point.
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It beat the previous world record for Chinese porcelain of 20million.
The Sun
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Hungarian ultramarathoner Edit Berces pounds out 153.6 miles on a treadmill, setting a new 24-hour world record.
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Guinness World Records staff were on hand to make sure the fight lasted more than a minute, according to the West Sussex County Times. Formal recognition should come later.
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The world record holder from Kenya certainly did that, easily beating Steve Cram's 25-year-old all-comers' record for the fastest 800m on British soil as he crossed the line in 1min 42.91sec.
Mo Farah ready to take on the world after lighting up Crystal Palace
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As part of this campaign they will take part in a world record attempt on April 30 this year.
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The French team are within striking distance of the world record.
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He had hoped to set a new world record, but was frustrated by bad weather.
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We applied for the Guinness Book of World Records and we are recording everything so we can send all the data to them and hopefully it will be recognized," Vice Mayor Jose Fabian Cadiz said.
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He now says that his attempt on the world record will be put back at least a couple of months while he attempts to overcome the problem with the compressed air.
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Ironically, I think it not only led to Inge's world records in the sprint freestyles, but in the 50 and 100 fly as well because it helped her endurance for fly.
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East the gold medallist Chinese athlete summer has broken the world record.
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She holds the world record in/for the 100 metres.
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The field includes three world record holders.
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With his last jump he equalled the world record.
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The U.S. women set a second senior-level world record in skeet, with Brandie Neal (fifth place), Connie Smotek (sixth) and Haley Dunn combined for a 211, one ahead of the existing mark.
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