The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history. BBC Sport takes a look ...

Kate Douglass is the first American woman to hold the 50m freestyle world record in 40 years.

Despite being just 17, Harry Newby has already made headlines. The 17-year-old powerlifter from Telford, England, has set two ...

A Texas teen is strutting into the Guinness World Records as both the woman and the teenager with the world’s longest legs.

Noah Lyles claimed a world record on Tuesday. The United States' track star ran a time of 14.67 seconds in the 150-meter at ...

I was like, this could potentially be a world record,” Aries Merritt said. Merritt, an assistant coach for Texas State, was ...

Ready, set, go break a record. As elite athletes compete for top accolades in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, at least a few world records will undoubtedly fall. But some of the Olympics’ speediest ...

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.