The defending champion in the event posts a time of 12.75 seconds, breaking a world record that stood for more than 13 years.

Jonathan, the 194-year-old tortoise, is already a Guinness World Record holder and now has officially cemented his status as a Guinness Icon. (Adobe Stock)

I was like, this could potentially be a world record,” Aries Merritt said. Merritt, an assistant coach for Texas State, was in the crowd to watch his pupil, Ja’Shaun Lloyd, run in the previous heat. He stuck around for Tharp’s race,

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.

One week after she stunningly lowered her world record in the 800-meter freestyle to 8:04.12, Swimming World is kicking off A Week of Katie Ledecky Statistics. Each day for the next week, we’ll run a short piece that highlights Ledecky-related stats ...

Monsieur Mangetout — that's Mr. Eats Everything in French — is famous for eating a plane, earning the Guinness World Record for world's strangest diet. His record is one of tens of thousands on the books at Guinness World Records where, every year ...

Hong Kong, CHINA: The Guinness World Record Champion of Hula Hoops, Kareena Oates from Australia, performs at a local shopping mall, in Hong Kong, 22 December 2006. Oates manipulates about 70 hula-hoops around her body at one time (Photo credit should read ...

As the world's de facto record adjudicator, Guinness World Records keeps tabs on all manner of weird and wonderful feats. Toyota's humanoid robot which happens to be really good at basketball is a Guinness World Record holder, alongside the man who ...

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 ...

Meet Eric, the 16-year-old from Michigan, who has the largest hands and feet of any teenager. Unlike the average man who wears sizes between 9 and 12, according to Healthline, Eric wears a size 23. Although he has been able to find his rare shoe size, he ...

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships, or any kind of continental or global meeting.

The world's oldest living land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, extended his record to 194 years and was officially named a Guinness World Records Icon.