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Isinbayeva sets 2013 retirement; signs new deal
Beijing :: China | 9 months ago
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Yelena Isinbayeva, the two-time Olympic pole vault champion and world record-holder, plans to compete for five more years before retiring in 2013. The Russian spelled out her intentions Monday after signing a long-term, multimillion-dollar sponsorship...
Tags: Yelena Isinbayeva, pole vault, Beijing, world records
Hooker puts Aussies on big stage
Sydney :: Australia | 9 months ago
Credibility Field athletics will henceforth be renamed as "Field and Track" if Steve Hooker fulfills his potential and becomes the next Australian world recordholder. Hooker, the Olympic pole vault gold medallist, hopes to take another crack at a world record height...
Tags: world records
Bulgarian breaks chess marathon record
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 9 months ago
Credibility A Bulgarian grandmaster appears to have broken the world record for the highest number of chess games played simultaneously, organizers said Monday. Kiril Georgiev played a total of 360 games simultaneously, winning 284, drawing 70 and losing six, during...
Tags: World Records, Kiril Georgiev
Isinbayeva wins in Birmingham!
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Isinbayeva wins in Birmingham Birmingham, Feb 22: Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva enjoyed an easy victory at the Birmingham Grand Prix with a clearance at 4.82 metres on Saturday. But the Olympic champion, who plans to skip next month's European...
Tags: Yelena Isinbayeva, Arshavin Russian, Arsenal, Andrey Arshavin, Andrei Arshavin, world records, Aston Villa, Birmingham Birmingham, Sunderland, Chelsea
Isinbayeva sets two records in one day
Donetsk :: Ukraine | 9 months ago
Credibility She first took the height of 4.97 metres, which broke her previous record of 4.95 set a year ago at the same tournament, but that was not enough for the 26-year-old. She then went on to break that record in the next attempt, setting the new all time high...
Tags: Yelena Isinbayeva, world records, Donetsk, Ukraine, indoor world, vault records
New kissing record set
Mexico City :: Mexico | 9 months ago
Credibility Valentine's Day, when nearly 40,000 people locked lips with their sweethearts to beat the world record for simultaneous kisses, previously held by Britain. The new record was set late on Saturday, when 39,897 people crowded into the Mexican capital for...
Tags: world records, Mexico City
Wild and Wacky WORLD RECORDS (photos)
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Tags: guiness book of world records, world records, biggest, fastest, heaviest, highest, largest, longest, most pierced, oldest, smallest, tallest, youngest, new world record, world record
Windsor Star, Canada: Library invites families to help break reading record
Toronto :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility The Windsor Public Library will be marking Family Literacy Day Saturday with a number of special activities, including taking part in a national effort to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. The ABC Canada Literacy Foundation and Oxford Learning...
Tags: family literacy, inc, world records
Mother, daughter claim shearing world records (NZPA)
Wanganui :: New Zealand | 10 months ago
Credibility Auckland [ change ] Few showers Max 23° Min 17° Mother, daughter claim shearing world records January 13, 2009, 8:16 pm Mother and daughter shearers Marg and Ingrid Baynes today set two new world records at Mangapehi in the King Country for shearing...
Tags: world records
Obituaries in the news
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Roy Saari, a former world record-holding swimmer and gold medalist at the 1964 Olympics, died Tuesday...University of Southern California, died Tuesday in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., USC announced Friday...Saari set four world records in his career, including...
Tags: Roy Saari, world records, University of Southern California, USC, meter freestyle, gold medalist
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