Ja'Kobe Tharp celebrates setting the 110m hurdles world record Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images It was the athletics story that caused the world to sit up and take notice. Ja’Kobe Tharp’s shock 110m hurdles world record at the NCAA outdoor ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 South Carolina man holds world records, wins international competitions and can lift nearly four times his body weight.