With the California festival set to return this weekend, Kevin E G Perry looks back at some of its most memorable performances
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...
THE world’s first artificial intelligence-generated beauty pageant is not receiving the alluring praise from techies that the event’s creators hoped for. AI creators will have an opport
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
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...
Hundreds of ballerinas set a new world record on Wednesday at the Plaza
Yesterday, Claire Casselton broke the Guinness World Record for Fastest Marathon Dressed as a Skeleton (female), in a time of 3:51:01 in a tension-fuelled finish leaving only 162 seconds to spare. Claire ran the iconic 26.2 mile race dressed in a skeleton costume to raise funds and awareness for the Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) and their #TeamBones campaign after her sister-in-law Carolyn was diagnosed with primary bone cancer last year. In her thirties and with a young daughter, Carolyn...
Nigerian chess master, Tunde Onakoya has reached a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon when he reached the 57-hour mark, surpassing the previous record of 56 hours and 9 minutes.