Which meaningful sporting records do you reckon will never be beaten? Here are a few that will take a long time, if ever, to better.
Don Bradman’s batting average of 99.94 (Cricket)
Jim Laker’s 19 wickets in a single test. (Cricket)
3.Aussie cricket team winning 16 tests in a row. (Cricket)
4.All Blacks went unbeaten 49 games in a row (includes tour games against club teams). (Rugby)
5.Kelly Slater’s 9 world titles.(Surfing)
6.Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points in a single game. (Basketball)
7.Lance Armstrong’s 7 straight Tour De Pharmacy wins.(Cycling).
I know that North American sport is stat-driven, so what other records are gonna take some beating?
Oscar beat me by a full hour on the first day of The Port Elizabeth to East London Surf Ski Challenge (255km in 4 days). He did 80km of open ocean paddling in under 5 hours. This guy is a machine.
Michael Schumacher’s Formula One career major records: Most race wins: 90 (previous record beaten in 2001) and he is making a comeback. (not a fan of F1: don’t get the point of burning fuel and calling it a sport)
Oscar beat me by a full hour on the first day of The Port Elizabeth to East London Surf Ski Challenge (255km in 4 days). He did 80km of open ocean paddling in under 5 hours. This guy is a machine.[/quote]
Chalupsky beat you by an HOUR! Something else, hey! The guy must be superhuman!
"The best female marathon runner in recorded history. Of the seven marathons she has run, she has won six and set a record in five…
…famous for an incident where Radcliffe, feeling hindered by the need for a toilet break, stopped and defecated on the side of the road in plain view of the crowd and TV cameras which where broadcasting live." listverse.com/2007/10/02/top-10- … d-records/
Gaius Appuleius Diocles,
charioteer of the Red Stable: “He won a total of 35,863,120 sestertii”….“He took the lead and won 815 times, came from behind to win 67 times, won under handicap 36 times, won in various styles 42 times and won in a final dash 502 times”
“He made nine horses 100-time winners, and one a 200-time winner.” A hundred time winner was commonly referred to as a “centenari”. mariamilani.com/ancient_rome … _Races.htm
Pretty niche sporting market I know, but Barry Sheene’s quick lap of the Spa Francorchamps circuit in 1977 is still the fastest outright lap in FIM motorcycle grand prix history and is unlikely to be toppled, ever…
Dear Leader’s sporting prowess is unquestioned, but he is YET to win more than 8 Olympic gold medals at a single games.Perhaps Michael Phelps,Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson are due a visit to North Korea.
According to nakedworldrecords (no link provided for decency’s sake), the most weight squatted by a naked man: “The old record of 190Kg by Christian Linde (Finland) was smashed on 23rd December 2008 by Einar B. Gilberg (Norway) with a massive 230kg.”
I strongly suggest not looking for the picture unless you’re of strong mental constitution.
He was undefeated in both domestic (Japanese) and international competitions with 203 wins (including four World Championship titles and a gold medal in the 1974 Olympics, despite tearing his right calf muscle in the opening round) and 7 draws (including one in the final of the 1980 All Japan Championships in which his fibula was broken during the match).
He is also the youngest person in history to win the open category of the All Japan Judo Championships.
For MLB, Rickey Henderson—1406 stolen bases. (A player could steal 70 bases for 20 consecutive seasons and still not beat Henderson’s mark.)
In the NHL, during their run of four Stanley Cup championships and a fifth finals appearance, the New York Islanders won 19 straight playoff series, the longest streak in the history of professional sports (one more than the 1959–67 streak by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association).
