Records are meant to be broken — sometimes in quick succession.

16-year-old Shaurya Jain recently created the Guinness World Record of continuously bouncing a table tennis ball on one racket while simultaneously balancing a second ball perfectly still on a second racket .

A Texas teen is strutting into the Guinness World Records as both the woman and the teenager with the world’s longest legs. Maci Currin is 17 years old and stands at 6 feet, 10 inches. In fact, her legs make up 60 percent of her total height, according to Guinness.

Wilcox, 39, circumnavigated the Earth in 108 days in 2024, setting the women’s record for quickest bike trip around the world. On Sunday, she plans to set out again from Chicago, and if all goes according to plan she will finish in the same city on Aug. 24 after 78 days, breaking the record set by Mark Beaumont of Britain in 2017 by a half day.

KALAMAZOO, MI — By the time Noah Sanders crossed the finish line of his sixth 5K in a single day, the 10-year-old had run through six countries, logged roughly 45,000 steps and helped make world-record history.

In his first race in three years, 61-year-old Mohammed El Yamani of France shattered the world record for the men’s 60-64 age group category with a stunning 2:28:28 at the Seville Marathon. The previous record was 2:30:02, set by Irish Olympian Tommy ...

Gretchen Walsh returned to the pool where she broke the 100m butterfly record twice in one day a year ago ... and lowered the record again. Walsh clocked 54.33 seconds at the Fort Lauderdale Open, breaking the world record of 54.

Over 1,000 people dressed as Marilyn Monroe set a new Guinness World Record in downtown Palm Springs on Saturday.

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse. It grieved me to eventually learn that he was a fiction ...

A man holds world records, wins international competitions and can lift nearly four times his body weight. Yet he still sees himself as just a guy with a hobby.