World Records News

For Melissa Sanders, her boxy work space at Tucson Greyhound Park was not confining at all.

Each year, thousands of people take part in the Comrades Marathon, and feel justifiably proud when they complete the gruelling 90km run.

Pensacola bathing beauties are hoping to set a record this holiday for the most swimsuits in a photo shoot.

Hundreds of swimsuit-clad women on Saturday will spell out the name BELLA in the sand as part of a contest for Bella Magazine. They're hoping to set a Guinness World Record.

Another magazine set a similar record in Sidney, Australia last year when about 1,010 women in bikinis were photographed.

Brian 'Young Gun' Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in Eau Claire, Mich.

Krause's winning spit on Saturday was 56 feet, 7 1/2 inches.

That's 6 1/2 inches better than his father, second-place finisher and defending champion Rick 'Pellet Gun' Krause of Yuba City, Ariz, who spit 56 feet, 1 inch.

Thirty-year-old Rick Krause of Dimondale currently holds the Guinness World Record after spitting a pit 93 feet, 6 1/2 inches in 2003.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - At last, I was about to meet a star from Hollywood's golden era, one of the greats from the black-and-white films of the 1930s.

Keep your distance, I was told. Five feet back.

This is common with celebrities.

'He likes his space,' said aide Dan Westfall. 'He's very territorial.'

So old is this performer that he holds a Guinness world record.

But this legend gets no respect.

He has yet to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - rejected last month for the fifth consecutive year, for a grand total of seven times in 20 years.

Tyson Gay tumbled to the ground at the start of his 200-meter quarterfinal heat at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Saturday and had to be carted off the track.

Running in the seventh lane, Gay was speeding to the lead in the first turn, but on his 14th stride, something went wrong. He went airborne, fell, then laid on the ground in pain, grabbing his left thigh and grimacing.

About an hour after the injury, officials from USA Track and Field said Gay appeared to have pulled up with a severe cramp but was still being evaluated.

Web produced by: Neil Relyea It took 35-minutes to do it, but Rick Wallenda broke a world record Friday night.

Joey "Jaws "Chestnut won the 93rd Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest Saturday for a second straight year.

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New York - American Joey "Jaws" Chestnut will defend his crown as the world's fastest hot-dog eater on Friday against former champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi of Japan in an Independence Day showdown at Coney ...

" After failing to eat 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes, Takeru Kobayashi had the same reaction last year that more than 2 million people fought back.

Hungarian musicians performed non-stop for 216 hours at a summer resort on Lake Balaton to set a Guinness World Record for the longest concert, Hungarian News Agency MTI reported Monday.

Former 100-meter world record holder Tim Montgomery, who had been scheduled for trial next week on heroin distribution charges, has opted for a plea hearing Thursday.

As part of its Summer long Concordstock, the City of Concord broke the Guinness world record with 2,052 guitar players strumming This Land is Your Land , by Woodie Guthrie.

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Jeremy Wariner has big plans for the summer: Defend his Olympic gold medal in the 400 meters at Beijing and break the world record.

It was only the quarterfinals of the 100 meter das for the men at the Olympic Trials Saturday but Tyson Gay didn't hold back.

The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, will run in Switzerland five days after the Olympics, meet organizers said Monday.