Sports Records.

Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 13 seasons between 1957 and 1969, the last two as player-coach. His 11th came on May 5, 1969, against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina won 18 Olympic medals (9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze) at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Games. She held the overall record for any athlete until Michael Phelps passed her in 2012.

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962 — still the single-game scoring record over six decades later, and the only 100-point game in NBA history. No player has come within 19 points of it since Kobe Bryant's 81-point game in 2006.

Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors grabbed 55 rebounds against Bill Russell's Boston Celtics on November 24, 1960. Bill Russell's 51, also in 1960, is the closest anyone has come.

France's Just Fontaine scored 13 goals in six matches at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, including four in the third-place match against West Germany on June 28, 1958. No player has come closer than Sándor Kocsis's 11 in 1954.

The 1950 FIFA World Cup final match at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, had an official attendance of 173,850, though estimates of the actual crowd (including those without tickets who entered the stadium) run as high as 199,854 or more — the largest attendance ever recorded at a single sporting event, a record that will likely never be broken given modern stadium safety regulations.

Joe Louis defended the world heavyweight title 25 times between 1937 and 1949, a record for consecutive heavyweight title defenses that remains unmatched — a stretch of dominance nicknamed the 'Bum of the Month Club' by sportswriters of the era.

Germany's Emanuel Lasker held the world title for 27 years, from beating Wilhelm Steinitz in 1894 until losing to José Raúl Capablanca in Havana in April 1921.

Oscar Swahn of Sweden won gold in the running deer team shooting event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics at age 64 — the oldest gold medalist in Olympic history. He later won a silver medal at age 72 in 1920, making him also the oldest Olympic medalist of any color.

Cy Young won 511 games between 1890 and 1911, a record regarded as unbreakable in the modern game. Walter Johnson is second with 417.

Dimitrios Loundras of Greece won a bronze medal in gymnastics at the 1896 Athens Olympics at age 10 — while some earlier team-event participants' exact ages are disputed, Loundras is the youngest medalist with a well-documented birth date, and remains the youngest confirmed Olympic medalist of any color in modern Olympic history.