Sports Records.

John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in a first-round match at Wimbledon in 2010 that lasted 11 hours 5 minutes across three days, with the final set alone going 70-68 — the longest tennis match ever played, prompting Wimbledon to later introduce a final-set tiebreak rule to prevent a repeat.

American Jordan Romero reached the summit from the Tibetan side on May 22, 2010, at 13 years and 10 months. Nepal and China have since set minimum ages of 16 and 18, making the record very hard to break.

Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva cleared 5.06 m at Weltklasse Zürich on August 28, 2009. It was the last of her many world records, set indoors and outdoors between 2003 and 2009.

Usain Bolt of Jamaica ran 19.19 seconds into a 0.3 m/s headwind to win the 200 m final at the World Championships in Berlin on August 20, 2009. He took 0.11 seconds off his own record of 19.30 from the 2008 Olympic final, four days after setting the 100 m world record in the same stadium.

American Aaron Peirsol swam 1:51.92 (111.92 seconds) at the 2009 World Championships in Rome on July 31, 2009. It is another surviving record from the super-suit era.

China's Zhang Lin swam 7:32.12 (452.12 seconds) at the 2009 World Championships in Rome on July 29, 2009. It has stood for more than 17 years.

Germany's Paul Biedermann swam 1:42.00 (102.00 seconds) at the 2009 World Championships in Rome on July 28, 2009, in a polyurethane 'super-suit' later banned from 2010. It is one of the last surviving records from that era.

Czech thrower Barbora Špotáková threw 72.28 m at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart on September 13, 2008. It is the record for the women's javelin model introduced in 1999.

Polish strongman Mariusz Pudzianowski won the World's Strongest Man title five times (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2008), the most of any competitor as of the most recent editions covered by this registry's sources — ahead of competitors such as Brian Shaw and Žydrūnas Savickas, who have each won four.

The US team of Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak won the 2008 Olympic final in Beijing in 3:08.24 (188.24 seconds) on August 11, 2008. Lezak's anchor leg overhauled France's Alain Bernard in the final metres.

Barry Bonds hit 762 home runs across his MLB career (1986-2007) — the all-time career record, seven more than Hank Aaron's previous record of 755. Bonds also holds the single-season record with 73 home runs in 2001.

Mike Dobbyn (USA) hit a drive of 551 yards (503.8 m) at a long-drive competition in 2007 — the longest golf drive ever officially measured, aided by altitude and a favorable tailwind, conditions typical of the specialized long-drive competition format rather than standard tournament golf.

Alan Shearer scored 260 Premier League goals for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United between 1992 and 2006. Harry Kane, second with 213, left the league in 2023.

Emmitt Smith ran for 18,355 regular-season yards for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals between 1990 and 2004. He passed Walter Payton's 16,726 on October 27, 2002.

Arsenal went 49 consecutive Premier League matches without a defeat between May 2003 and October 2004 — a run that included a full unbeaten season (2003-04, earning them the nickname 'The Invincibles') — the longest unbeaten run in English top-flight football history.

American Paralympic swimmer Trischa Zorn, who is blind, won 41 gold medals (55 medals overall) across the 1980 to 2004 Paralympic Games — the most gold medals and the most total medals of any athlete in Paralympic history, across any sport.

Brian Lara of the West Indies scored 400 not out against England in Antigua in April 2004 — the highest individual score in Test cricket history, reclaiming a record he had briefly lost in 2003, having previously also held it with 375 in 1994.

John Stockton recorded 15,806 assists over 19 seasons with the Utah Jazz, retiring in 2003. Chris Paul is the closest challenger, still well over 3,000 behind.

Brazil has won the men's FIFA World Cup five times — in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002 — the last with a 2–0 win over Germany in Yokohama on June 30, 2002. Spain's win at the 2026 tournament was its second title, leaving Brazil's record intact.

Australia beat American Samoa 31–0 in a World Cup qualifier in Coffs Harbour, Australia, on April 11, 2001. Archie Thompson scored 13 of the goals, also a record for a single international match.

Russian wrestler Aleksandr Karelin went unbeaten in international super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestling for about 13 years, from 1987 until his stunning loss to American Rulon Gardner in the final of the 2000 Sydney Olympics — a streak widely regarded as one of the most dominant in the sport's history, though no federation formally certifies 'unbeaten streaks' as a statistic.

Moroccan middle-distance runner Hicham El Guerrouj ran a mile in 3:43.13 in Rome on July 7, 1999 — a record that, as of the most recent editions of this registry's sources, has stood for over two decades, longer than any previous mile world record of the modern era.

Wayne Gretzky recorded 2,857 regular-season points (894 goals, 1,963 assists) before retiring in April 1999. His assists alone outnumber the total points of every other player in league history.

Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj ran 3:26.00 (206.00 seconds) at the Golden Gala in Rome on July 14, 1998. The record has survived nearly three decades of attacks, including by Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

Sri Lanka declared at 952 for 6 against India at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo in August 1997. Sanath Jayasuriya scored 340 and Roshan Mahanama 225, sharing a record partnership of 576.

Ronnie O'Sullivan compiled a maximum 147 break in 5 minutes and 20 seconds during the first round of the 1997 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, against Mick Price — the fastest maximum break ever recorded in professional competition.

Jeremy Sonnenfeld bowled three consecutive perfect games — a 900 series — on February 2, 1997, in Lincoln, Nebraska, the first 900 series ever certified by the American Bowling Congress (predecessor to today's United States Bowling Congress), a feat so rare that only a small handful of bowlers have repeated it since.

Czech thrower Jan Železný threw 98.48 m in Jena, Germany, on May 25, 1996. It is the record for the redesigned javelin introduced in 1986.

Britain's Jonathan Edwards jumped 18.29 m at the World Championships in Gothenburg on August 7, 1995. That day he also became the first man to pass 18 metres legally, with an earlier 18.16 m in the same competition.

Nolan Ryan struck out 5,714 batters over 27 seasons between 1966 and 1993. Randy Johnson is second with 4,875, nearly 900 behind.

The US team of Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds and Michael Johnson won the 1993 World Championships final in Stuttgart in 2:54.29 (174.29 seconds) on August 22, 1993.

Vitaly Scherbo, competing for the Unified Team of former Soviet republics at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, won six gold medals in gymnastics — team combined exercises, the individual all-around, and four apparatus finals — the most golds ever won by a gymnast at a single Olympics.

Martina Navratilova won 9 Wimbledon women's singles titles between 1978 and 1990 — the most Wimbledon singles titles won by any player in the Open Era, ahead of Roger Federer's 8 men's singles titles.

The Soviet Union's team, anchored by Olga Bryzgina, won the 1988 Olympic final in Seoul in 3:15.17 (195.17 seconds) on October 1, 1988. It has stood for 38 years.

Florence Griffith Joyner of the USA won the 1988 Olympic 200 m final in Seoul in 21.34 seconds on September 29, 1988. The mark has stood for more than 37 years, the closest challenge being Elaine Thompson-Herah's 21.53 in 2021.

American Jackie Joyner-Kersee scored 7291 points to win Olympic gold in Seoul on September 23–24, 1988. She is the only woman to score above 7200 points.

East Germany's Gabriele Reinsch threw 76.80 m in Neubrandenburg on July 9, 1988. It has stood for more than 38 years.

The Soviet Union's Galina Chistyakova jumped 7.52 m at the Znamensky Memorial in Leningrad on June 11, 1988. No woman has jumped further in the more than 38 years since.

The Soviet Union's Natalya Lisovskaya threw 22.63 m at the Znamensky Memorial in Moscow on June 7, 1987.

The Soviet Union's Yuriy Sedykh threw 86.74 m to win the European Championships in Stuttgart on August 30, 1986. It is the oldest men's world record in a standard Olympic event.

Pete Rose collected 4,256 hits between 1963 and 1986, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds. He passed Ty Cobb's 4,189 on September 11, 1985.

Jack Nicklaus won the Masters six times — 1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975 and 1986. Tiger Woods is second with five.

Jack Nicklaus won 18 men's major championships between 1962 and 1986, the last at the Masters on April 13, 1986, at age 46. Tiger Woods is second with 15.

East Germany's Marita Koch ran 47.60 seconds at the IAAF World Cup in Canberra, Australia, on October 6, 1985. It is one of the oldest standing world records in athletics.

English darts player John Lowe threw the first nine-dart finish achieved on televised competition, during the 1984 World Matchplay, winning a bonus prize of £102,000 for the feat — nine darts being the theoretical minimum needed to complete a 501 leg.

Czechoslovakia's Jarmila Kratochvílová ran 1:53.28 (113.28 seconds) in Munich on July 26, 1983. It is the longest-standing individual world record in athletics.

Australia's Margaret Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles between 1960 and 1973, 11 of them at the Australian Championships/Open. Serena Williams is second with 23, all in the Open era.

Wilt Chamberlain collected 23,924 regular-season rebounds between 1959 and 1973, averaging 22.9 per game. Bill Russell is second with 21,620.

The Los Angeles Lakers won 33 consecutive games during the 1971-72 NBA season — still the longest winning streak in the history of any major North American professional sports league (NBA, NFL, MLB, or NHL), a record that has stood for over five decades.

Rod Laver of Australia achieved the calendar-year Grand Slam — winning all four major singles titles in the same year — twice, in 1962 and again in 1969 after tennis turned professional, the only man ever to do it more than once, and the only man to do it in the Open Era.