Sports Records.

Lithuania's Aleksandr Sorokin ran 100 km in 6:05:35 (21,935 seconds) at the World's Fastest Run in Vilnius on May 14, 2023. He averaged about 3:39 per kilometre.

Russia's Evgeniia Chikunova swam 2:17.55 (137.55 seconds) at the Russian National Championships in Kazan on April 21, 2023.

Australia's Kaylee McKeown swam 2:03.14 (123.14 seconds) at the New South Wales State Championships in Sydney on March 10, 2023.

Tom Brady threw for 89,214 regular-season yards over 23 seasons with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, retiring in February 2023. Drew Brees is second with 80,358.

'Fool's Mate' is the fastest possible checkmate in chess, achieved in just 2 moves (1. f3 e5 2. g4 Qh4#) — this requires the losing side to make two of the worst possible opening moves, so it is a curiosity rather than a realistic outcome between skilled players, but it is a proven structural minimum for the game.

Italian cyclist Filippo Ganna covered 56.792 km in one hour at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, on October 8, 2022, setting the UCI Hour Record as of that date. The record has changed hands repeatedly over the decades as equipment rules evolved, so this figure should be read as 'the record as of October 2022' rather than a permanently settled number.

Hungary's Kristóf Milák won the 2022 World Championships final in his home pool in Budapest in 1:50.34 (110.34 seconds) on June 21, 2022. He improved his own record of 1:50.73 from 2019.

Italy's Thomas Ceccon swam 51.60 seconds to win the 2022 World Championships final in Budapest on June 20, 2022. He beat Ryan Murphy's 51.85 from the 2016 Olympics.

Rafael Nadal won the French Open men's singles 14 times between 2005 and 2022, the last on June 5, 2022, against Casper Ruud. It is the most titles any player has won at a single Grand Slam tournament.

Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas jumped 15.74 m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade on March 20, 2022. Under World Athletics rules, indoor marks in this event count as outright world records.

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey ran 1:02:52 (3772 seconds) at the Valencia Half Marathon on October 24, 2021, in her debut at the distance. She took more than a minute off the previous record.

The International 10, Valve's Dota 2 world championship in Bucharest, had a prize pool of $40,018,195, mostly crowd-funded by players. Team Spirit won it on October 17, 2021. Multi-game events such as the Esports World Cup have larger combined pools across many titles.

Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze lifted 265 kg in the clean & jerk at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (held in August 2021), setting an Olympic record in the men's +109kg category as part of a then-world-record 488 kg total — the standard against which subsequent super-heavyweight lifting has been measured.

American Caeleb Dressel won the Tokyo Olympic final in 49.45 seconds on July 31, 2021. He improved his own record of 49.50 from 2019.

American Abhimanyu Mishra qualified as a grandmaster at 12 years, 4 months and 25 days (4,528 days old) in Budapest on June 30, 2021. He beat Sergey Karjakin's 2002 record by about two months.

Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton are tied with 7 Formula 1 Drivers' World Championships each — the most of any driver in the sport's history. Schumacher won his between 1994 and 2004; Hamilton won his between 2008 and 2020. As of 2026, Max Verstappen leads active drivers with 4 titles.

Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei ran 26:11.00 (1571.00 seconds) in Valencia, Spain, on October 7, 2020. He took more than six seconds off Kenenisa Bekele's record from 2005.

Britain's Mo Farah covered 21,330 m in one hour at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on September 4, 2020. He broke Haile Gebrselassie's 21,285 m from 2007.

The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan covered 18,930 m in one hour at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on September 4, 2020, in the same meeting as Mo Farah's men's record. She broke Dire Tune's 18,517 m from 2008.

Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei ran 12:35.36 (755.36 seconds) at the Herculis meeting in Monaco on August 14, 2020. He broke Kenenisa Bekele's 16-year-old record of 12:37.35.

Sam Snead won 82 official PGA Tour events across his career (1936-1965) — a record that stood alone for over five decades until Tiger Woods matched it in 2019 with his own 82nd career win, making the two golfers tied for the most PGA Tour wins in history.

Britain's Adam Peaty swam 56.88 seconds in the semi-finals of the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 21, 2019. He remains the only man to have swum the event under 57 seconds.

The Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots are tied with 6 Super Bowl wins each — the most of any NFL franchise. The Patriots hold the record for most Super Bowl appearances overall, with 11.

France's Kevin Mayer scored 9126 points at the Décastar meeting in Talence on September 15–16, 2018. He beat Ashton Eaton's 9045 from 2015.

Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech ran 8:44.32 (524.32 seconds) at the Herculis meeting in Monaco on July 20, 2018. She took more than eight seconds off the previous record.

American Katie Ledecky swam 15:20.48 (920.48 seconds) at a TYR Pro Swim Series meet in Indianapolis on May 16, 2018.

Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen won 15 Winter Olympic medals across her career (2002-2018), including 8 golds — the most Winter Olympic medals of any athlete in history, male or female.

American Lilly King swam 1:04.13 (64.13 seconds) at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest on July 25, 2017. The record has stood for more than nine years.

South African golfer Branden Grace shot a final-round 62 at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, becoming the first player in the history of men's major championship golf to break 63 in a major round — a barrier since matched by other players but first broken by Grace.

Russell Baze, an American jockey, retired in 2016 with 12,842 career wins — the most of any jockey in horse racing history, accumulated over a 40-year career riding primarily on the North American circuit.

Poland's Anita Włodarczyk threw 82.98 m at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Warsaw on August 28, 2016. She remains the only woman to throw beyond 82 m.

American swimmer Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals across five Olympic Games (2004–2016) — more than double the total of any other individual athlete in Olympic history — along with 3 silver and 2 bronze medals, for 28 total.

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk won the 2016 Olympic 400 m final in Rio de Janeiro in 43.03 seconds from lane 8 on August 14, 2016. He took 0.15 seconds off Michael Johnson's 43.18 from 1999.

Jim Furyk shot a 12-under-par 58 in the final round of the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, on August 7, 2016. He is the only player to shoot 58 in a PGA Tour event.

Max Verstappen won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix at age 18 years and 228 days, on his debut race for Red Bull Racing — the youngest driver ever to win a Formula 1 race, a record that still stands as of 2026.

Rohit Sharma of India scored 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka in Kolkata on November 13, 2014, the highest individual score ever recorded in a One Day International — surpassing his own earlier record of 209, also against Australia, set the previous year.

Magnus Carlsen of Norway reached a FIDE classical rating of 2882 on the May 2014 rating list, and matched it in 2019. The previous record was Garry Kasparov's 2851 from 1999.

Sachin Tendulkar of India scored 15,921 runs in 200 Tests between 1989 and 2013, including 51 centuries. England's Joe Root was second with just under 14,000 runs as of 2026.

Japan's Yuichiro Miura reached the summit on May 23, 2013, at 80 years and 223 days. It was his third Everest ascent, after earlier climbs at 70 and 75.

French skier Johan Clarey was recorded at 161.9 km/h during a World Cup downhill race in Wengen, Switzerland — the fastest speed ever recorded in competitive Alpine downhill skiing, a discipline that combines top speed with technical turns, jumps, and terrain changes rather than a straight speed course.

Lionel Messi scored 91 goals for Barcelona and Argentina in 2012, 79 for his club and 12 for his country. He broke Gerd Müller's 85 from 1972, a mark recognised by Guinness World Records.

London has hosted the Summer Olympic Games three times — in 1908, 1948, and 2012 — more than any other city in the world, a distinction unlikely to be matched soon given the decades-long gaps typically required between a city's turns hosting.

Jamaica's Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt won Olympic gold in London in 36.84 seconds on August 11, 2012. They were the first team to break 37 seconds.

The US team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter won Olympic gold in London in 40.82 seconds on August 10, 2012. They broke East Germany's 41.37 from 1985.

Kenya's David Rudisha won the 2012 Olympic 800 m final in London in 1:40.91 (100.91 seconds) on August 9, 2012, leading from the front throughout. He became the first man to run under 1:41 for the distance.

Australia's Sam Groth served at 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph) at a Challenger-level tournament in Busan, South Korea, in May 2012 — the fastest tennis serve ever recorded. The ATP does not recognize it as the official tour record because Challenger-event radar guns are not calibrated to ATP tour standards; the ATP's own recognized record is John Isner's 253.0 km/h serve at the 2016 Davis Cup.

Sachin Tendulkar scored 18,426 runs in 463 ODIs between 1989 and 2012. That included the first double century in men's ODIs, against South Africa in 2010.

Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th international century — 51 in Tests and 49 in ODIs — against Bangladesh in Mirpur on March 16, 2012. Virat Kohli is the closest active challenger.

England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson scored 277 points across the 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011 Rugby World Cups, the most of any player in the tournament's history — including the drop goal that won the 2003 final against Australia.

Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka took 800 Test wickets across his career, finishing with his 800th wicket in his final Test match against India in July 2010 — the only bowler in cricket history to reach 800 wickets, well ahead of the second-highest total (Shane Warne, 708).