Category: World Record
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Freediver Walks 107 M Underwater in One Breath to Break Record | Guinness World Records
Vitomir MariÄić (Croatia) can’t walk on water, but he can do the next best thing – walk under it. After walking a total of 107 m (351 ft 0.5 in), he has broken the record for the longest underwater walk with one breath (male). The previous record belonged to fellow Croatian freediver Boris Milosic, who…
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Emre Sakçı Shatters 50 Breast World S/C Mark As First-Ever Under 25 Seconds
Emre Sakçı today became the first Turkish swimmer to hold a World swimming record and the first swimmer ever inside 25sec over 50m breaststroke: in 24.95sec, the 24-year-old bolter pulverized the global standard at his national short-course championships in Gaziantep. Sakçı was out in 11.23sec, back in 13.72sec. Read State of Swimming
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Dutch Swimmer Maarten Van Der Weijden Sets New World Record | I Am Expat
Van der Weijden has certainly had a successful career, taking home gold in the 2008 World Championships and Olympics for the 25-kilometre and 10-kilometre open water marathons respectively. Since his cancer diagnosis in 2001, the Olympian has also worked to raise funds for cancer research, establishing the Maarten van der Weijden Foundation in 2017. In…
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Belarusian Swimmer Ilya Shymanovich Sets New World Record in 100 Meter Breaststroke | CBS
Swimming for Energy Standard of the ISL, Ilya Shymanovich broke the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke Friday hitting the wall with a time of 55.32. See CBC
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Take a Dive Into the World’s Deepest Swimming Pool | Guinness World Records
The Pearl Diving Pool is a facility of approximately 5,000m2 gross floor area constructed for His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. It will primarily be an indoor scuba diving facility for training and recreational purposes, with facilities for education, training, and recreation. The Pool is a concrete structure including a circular…
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Record-Breaking Swimmers Leave Hosts in Stitches on Celebration Plans | Today Show Australia
Four swimmers with a combined age of 320 break a 400-metre relay world record for their age group – and their celebration leaves Karl and Ally in stitches.
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Italian Sets World Record With Lake Titicaca Swim
Andrea Oriana, an Italian former Olympic swimmer, has set a new record on the high-altitude and chilly Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable lake that is surrounded by Andean mountain ranges between Bolivia and Peru. The 47-year-old swam across 20 kilometers (12.43 miles) of the lake without a wetsuit in a total of 5 hours…
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Women’s World Record Progression in the 50m Breaststroke Since 2009 | FINA World Championships
Watch this back-to-back clip featuring the women’s WR progression in the 50m Breaststroke since 2009 FINA World Championships.
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World Record – Katinka Hosszu | FINA Swimming World Cup | Berlin 2017 | 100m Medley
We’re bringing you a Katinka Hosszu’s World Record moment from the FINA Swimming World Cup series. The Hungarian ‘Iron Lady’, Katinka Hosszu was unstoppable in this epic race in the 100m Individual Medley at Berlin 2017. Her time of 56.51 is still unbeaten today.