British runners in particular have long tried to cross the finish line in less than 4 minutes, records show, sometimes ...

A yoga teacher living in Vietnam put his skills to the ultimate test by performing 86 pushups underwater with only a single ...

Twenty-four hours after breaking the men's mile world record, Josh Kerr reflects on his achievement with The Athletic ...

Josh Kerr set a new mile world record of 3:42.66s in London on July 18. Henry Nicholls / AFP via Getty Images With a fist ...

Monsieur Mangetout — that's Mr. Eats Everything in French — is famous for eating a plane, earning the Guinness World Record for world's strangest diet. His record is one of tens of thousands on the ...

Summer McIntosh broke the longest-standing world record in women’s swimming, and the last women’s record remaining from the super-suit era. McIntosh, a three-time 2024 Olympic gold medalist, clocked 2 ...

Kerr announced his bid to break the world record months in advance, and pulled off the plan in London on Saturday.

A pair of experienced campers in Britain broke a Guinness World Record by erecting their two-man tent in a time of 1 minute and 4.95 seconds. A British running club's 10 members donned a caterpillar ...

The pantheon of mile world record-holders has a new member. When Josh Kerr stormed over the finish line at the London Stadium ...

It’s never too early to start breaking records. Sawyer Nicholson, 11, of Canada, broke the world age-group record during the Niagara Falls International Marathon’s 5K this past weekend. The young ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse.

Hong Kong, CHINA: The Guinness World Record Champion of Hula Hoops, Kareena Oates from Australia, performs at a local shopping mall, in Hong Kong, 22 December 2006. Oates manipulates about 70 ...