Alexander Mutiso Munyao delivered another win for Kenya on a day the London Marathon remembered last year's champion Kelvin Kiptum.
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
Eddie Hall has set a new record for the hardest punch in the world. Just two weeks ago, UFC light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira obliterated Francis Ngannou’s old record on the PowerK
When Mike Tyson steps into the ring to fight Jake Paul, he will be the oldest professional boxer many fans have ever seen. In truth however, that is not a record he can lay claim to because it inst
A group of ballerinas has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest
The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Adetokunbo Abiru, has commended the 29-year-old Ikorodu-born chess master and coach, Tunde Onakoya, for setting a global record in chess game. Onakoya broke the world record for the longest chess marathon after playing unbeaten for about 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to raise money for Read More
In 2019, the University of Maine set three Guinness World Records for 3D printing. They had the world's largest 3D printer, the largest solid 3D printed object, and the largest 3D printed boat. The 5000-pound boat was printed in 72 hours. — Read the rest
City officials are rolling out "bee hotels" in an effort to preserve the bee population. The Pollinator Port Project has a plan to try and help city bees thrive. [ more › ]
The members of RoLUG (Romanian LEGO® Users Group), with support from LEGO Romania, have built the largest LEGO® brick diorama in the world. The record was adjudicated by Guinness World Records™ at the East European Comic Con, 2024 The diorama is an over 1-million LEGO bricks ode to the Star Wars™ universe, tying main events […]
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir smashed the women's-only world record to
Ethiopian eyes 2hr 10min mark – but not necessarily in LondonAssefa will run London Marathon in £450 Adidas super shoeEthiopia’s Tigist Assefa has set her sights on further lowering her women’s marathon world record to under two hours 10 minutes – but admits her only goal in Sunday’s London marathon is to win.Achieving that time sounds like a staggering ambition but the 27-year-old is clearly confident after running 2:11:53 in Berlin last September – a time that obliterated the previous mark of...
Ghanaian environmental activist and forestry student currently pursuing his master’s at Auburn University in the United States, has set a new world record for the most trees hugged in one hour. 29-year-old Abubakar Tahiru hugged a total of 1,123 trees, averaging almost 19 per minute to have his name in the Guinness World Record (GWR). […]