#worldrecords — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #worldrecords, aggregated by home.social.
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#athletics #trackandfield
#SabastianSawe broke the two-hour #marathon barrier. #JoshKerr shattered a 27-year-old #mile record. Scientists explain what actually separates a #worldrecord that's ripe to fall from one that may never be broken“sticky” #worldrecords sometimes come from #running “geniuses” who, for whatever reasons, have the ideal set of mental and training skills to take giant whacks at what was previously believed impossible https://run.outsideonline.com/history/why-some-running-records-have-lasted-decades-and-others-might-last-forever/
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Some folks may have heard about 31-year-old Kelsey Pfendler’s mastery of the sea. What I find most impressive is that she shattered the records she broke.
She rowed a boat from California to Hawaii ALONE. Her 2,400-mile journey took 44 days. In doing so she was the:
1. Youngest woman
2. First American woman
3. Fastest woman
4. Fastest humanShe cut the previous women’s record (86 days) in half. She beat the previous men’s record (52 days) by just over a week.
What a beast. Go ahead and tell me men are physically superior to women. Kelsey straight up said “anything you can do, I can do better.”
Here’s a summary of a video diary she kept on route:
https://www.kcra.com/article/kelsey-pfendler-record-breaking-row-california-hawaii-top-moments/71819753#KelseyPfendler #WomenInSports #WorldRecords #GenderEquality #AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter
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British daredevil Andrew Bedwell plans to cross Atlantic Ocean in boat the size of a wheelie bin
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British daredevil Andrew Bedwell plans to cross Atlantic Ocean in boat the size of a wheelie bin
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British daredevil Andrew Bedwell plans to cross Atlantic Ocean in boat the size of a wheelie bin
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British daredevil Andrew Bedwell plans to cross Atlantic Ocean in boat the size of a wheelie bin
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Fact of the day.
Lincoln Cathedral, in 1311 became the world's tallest building at 160 metres to the top of its tallest spire.
It's record wasn't surpassed until 1890 - 579 years later!
In real life it is absolutely huge as a building and amazing to realise it's over 700 years old.
#history #worldrecords #tallestbuilding #lincoln #lincolncathedral #lincolnshire
