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Swimming: Sakai breaks 200-meter backstroke short-course world record
Tōkyō :: Japan | 20 days ago
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Japan's Shiho Sakai broke the women's 200-meter backstroke short-course world record at a World Cup meet in Berlin on Saturday. Sakai claimed victory in a time of 2 minutes, 00.18 seconds to break the previous world mark of 2.00.91 held by Zimbabwe's...
Tags: Shiho Sakai, meter backstroke, world record, backstroke short, course world, Japan, Tōkyō, Kirsty Coventry, Sakai, Business Finance, News agencies, Japanese media, Kyodo News
HK challenges world largest harmonica ensemble
Hong Kong :: China | 21 days ago
Credibility More than 6,000 Hong Kong music lovers gathered at the Happy Valley Racecourse Recreation Playground on Friday night to break the world record of the largest harmonica ensemble, organizers said. During the break of a free open-air concert called Swire...
Tags: harmonicas ensemble, largest harmonicas, world record, China, Hong Kong, Swire Group, Harmonica, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
Guinness World Records Day marked with hugging stunt at station
London :: United Kingdom | 22 days ago
Credibility For one minute, 112 people, many of them total strangers, embraced at St Pancras station in London, the most to do so for that long. The stunt was held on the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day — 24 hours of record-breaking attempts — marking the...
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Phelps edged out by South African star in 200m IM final
Stockholm :: Sweden | 24 days ago
Credibility South African Darian Townsend hogged the glory in the end, taking the title in 1:51.79 but Phelps came in second in 1:53.93 to leave Lithuanian Vytautas Janusaitis with bronze in 1:54.34...Most swimmers in Stockholm are still wearing the performance-enhancing...
Tags: Michael Phelps, world record, world cup, Jessica Hardy, course world, Felicity Galvez
Never dreamt of this day: Sawant
Mumbai :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sawant was the captain of Indian Education Society Secondary School, Kandivali, against whom Rizvi Springfield's Sarfaraz Khan smacked 439 runs to create a world record on Wednesday. "We are very disappointed...We had dropped a few catches but we cannot...
NBC 3 West Virginia (WSAZ): A Thrilling Way to Break a World Record
Chesapeake :: VA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility the music, the moves and since it's almost Halloween, there's no better time to get down with a little thriller! People gathered in the parking lot at Chesapeake High School Saturday night to try and break a world record for the most people dancing to...
Tags: world record, Boise
Lebanon dips into another world record with hummus
Beirut :: Lebanon | about 1 month ago
Credibility Hundreds of garlic-loving Lebanese on Saturday came together to make the largest hummus serving on the world's biggest plate, claiming ownership of the dish with a new Guinness world record. A Guinness representative was on hand to certify the record...
Tags: Lebanon, world record
China's tennis stars advance at National Games
Jinan :: China | about 1 month ago
Credibility Chinese tennis aces did not fell prey to any upset at the 11th Chinese National Games, with former Olympic champion Sun Tiantian and China's former male number one Sun Peng both advancing in the doubles events on Tuesday. After teaming up with Yang...
Tags: China, Liu Zige, world record, Zhang Lin, world championships, Kosuke Kitajima, gold medals
Robbie beats comeback gig nerves
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Fans treated the star as a returning hero as he put comeback nerves behind him at the Roundhouse in London...The concert was intimate by his standards, playing to 3,000 people to kick off the BBC's Electric Proms. He is more used to playing stadiums,...
Tags: Robbie Williams, BBC Electric Proms, Robbie Rocks Again, London, Roundhouse, world record, live concert, BBC Worldwide, comeback gig
Students in robot dancing record attempt
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility But in reality, organisers hoping to pull 1,000 people to the University of Melbourne to cut some robot moves on Tuesday struggled for numbers. The attempt to break the previous Guinness world record, set by 276 students from England's University of Kent,...
Tags: dance record, robot dance, world record, University of Melbourne, Australia, Sydney
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