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As 2024 comes to a close, we took a look at some of the oddest Guinness World Records of the year.
Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Some events, such as rowing, occur under variable weather conditions that can unfairly benefit an athlete's performance through no fault of their own.
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
Addison "Addy" Wiley (born October 24, 2003) is an American professional middle-and long-distance runner and the American Record Holder in the 1000m. Wiley is an eight-time NAIA national champion in cross country and track and field.
The 2024 Summer Paralympics was an international parasports event held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. The event featured around 4400 athletes across 22 different sports. [1] In total, 80 World records and 120 Paralympic records have been broken in the event. [2]
The list also includes one book that won two categories: Romance queen Emily Henry's "Funny Story" was readers' pick for both "Best Romance" and "Best Audiobook," which was a newly introduced ...
In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
In 2020, Duplantis surpassed Bubka's outdoor world best (the old 6.14 m record), with a 6.15 m vault and continued to improve the world record thereafter, most recently in 2024 with a 6.26 m mark. As new events are advanced to world record status, World Athletics might delay declaring initial performances as the official world record until ...