Category: World Record
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Yannich Agnel 3:32.25 and a new short course world record in the 400 meter freestyle !!
At the French National Championships today, Yannick Agnel blazed the men’s 400 short course meters freestyle in a new world record of 3:32.25, eclipsing Paul Biederman’s 3:32.77 from the Berlin 2009 World Cup meet back in the supersuited days. Amazing, read Speed Endurance and see full result list here
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NZ legends of the pool return for world record swim
Some of New Zealand’s greatest swimmers are celebrating a new world record – not just breaking the old mark, but annihilating it. Double Olympic champion Danyon Loader came out of retirement for the occasion, while Commonwealth Games medalist John Steel entertained as much of the Millenium Institute pool as in it. Former Commonwealth Games champion…
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Akihiro Yamaguchi downs the 200 breaststroke world record
At the Japanese National Sports Festival yesterday, 18-year-old Akihiro Yamaguchi collected his first world record, downing the global standard in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke, nearly becoming the first man under 2:07 with a time of 2:07.01. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine and watch the video.
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Trent Grimsey breaks English channel swim record
Trent Grimsey, FINA’s top ranked Open Water swimmer, has broken the record for an unassisted solo crossing of the English Channel by a massive 2 minutes and fifty seconds. The Queenslander began his 34km marathon at Dover in southern England at approximately 9:30am local time Saturday (1830 AEST) and arrived at Cap-Gris-Nez, France in a…
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Alexey Molchanov World Record in freediving 125 meters CWT
Nice video from when Alexey Molchanov set a new World Record in freediving 125 meters ‘constant weight’, back in June, 2012.
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Michele Tomasi did it, 130m under ice in one breath !
Old record was Şahika Ercümen 110 meters in the Weissensee lake in Austria back in February, new record is Michele Tomasi 130 meters in Lago Santo in Italy.
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CC photo #36: Amaury Leveaux points to his neck tattoo
French swimmer Amaury Leveaux celebrating his men’s 100 meter freestyle world record of 45.12, in the Rijeka 2008 LEN European Short Couse Championships semifinal. The day after he improved that record even more, to 44.94, first and still only man under 45 seconds. He had a good meet, setting world records also in the 50…
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Gopal Kharvi sets world record by swimming 9K handcuffed and shackled
Fisherman Gopal Kharvi from Kundapur successfully attempted a 2.45 hours 9 kilometer swim today with both his hands and feet handcuffed from St Mary’s Island to Malpe beach in Udupi, India, witnessed by Guinness Book of World Records representatives. Read The Times of India.
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Ashrita Furman is The Record Breaker
Ashrita Furman a.k.a. “Mr. Versatility” has set close to 400 world records now over the last 32 years, beginning with 27,000 jumping jacks in 1979, and including stuff like walking 32.9 miles in 1989 with a milk bottle on his head, balancing 57 glasses on his chin in 1996, sack racing 10 kilometers in 1…