The highest attendance for a tennis match is 35,681 to see Kim Clijsters (Belgium) defeat Serena Williams (USA) 6-3, 6-2 at King Baudouin in Brussels, Belgium, on 8 July 2010. The exhibition match was umpired by tennis legend Martina Navratilova and bested the “Battles of the Sexes” match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, which drew 30,472 people to the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, USA on 20 September 1973. Originally, Clijsters was to play fellow Belgian Justine Henin, but an elbow injury suffered at
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The greatest attendance at any Rugby League match is 107,558 for the National Rugby League Grand Final played at Stadium Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 26 September 1999, when Melbourne defeated St George Illawarra: 20 – 18. source, NRL stats: http://rl1908.com/NRL-Stats.htm
The highest astronomical observatory is the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, located at an altitude of 5,640 m (18,503 ft) on the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in a scientific reserve called Atacama Astronomical Park, Chile. The observatory houses a 1-m (3 ft 3.37 in) infrared telescope called miniTAO, which saw first light on 23 March 2009.
The largest confirmed audience for a game of ice hockey was 104,173 people at “The Big Chill at the Big House” between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University at Michigan Football Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, on 11 December 2010. An unofficial number of 113,411 was announced by the university as an estimate of all individuals present in the stadium for the match. Mike Janela adjudicated.
The greatest attendance for a winter action sports event is 83,500 at Winter X Games Four from February 3-6 2000 at Mount Snow, Vermont, USA.
The highest altitude BASEjump is 6,604 m (21,666 ft) set by Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan. They both made a wingsuit BASEjump from a ledge on Mt Meru, Garwhal Himalaya, India, on 23 May 2006.
The highest barometric pressure ever recorded was 1083.8mb (32 in) at Agata, Siberia, Russia (alt. 262m or 862ft) on 31 December 1968. This pressure corresponds to being at an altitude of nearly 600 m (2,000 ft) below sea level! Made more amazing by the fact that the place where it was measured was 262 m (826 ft) above sea level! The highest in Britain was 1054.7mb (31.15 in), in Aberdeen on 31 January 1902. Barometric pressure is the physical pressure exerted by all of the
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The highest batting average achieved by a player during an Olympic tournament is 571 by Luigi Carrozza (Italy) at Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1996.
The highest beer keg toss by a woman is 3.5 metres (11 ft 5 in) and was achieved by Michaela Pennekamp (Germany) on the set of Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland in Berlin, Germany, on 2 April 2011. The beer keg weighed 12.3 kg as requested in the guidelines.
Since 1984 the Indian and Pakistani armies have faced each other on the Siachen Glacier, in the disputed territory of Kashmir, at a height of up to 6,700 m (22,000 ft), in temperatures as low as -60°C (-76°F). At this altitude, they are higher than climbers standing at the summits of the tallest mountains in Africa, North America, Australasia, Europe, and Antarctica. Reports suggest that Pakistan spends as much as $588,000 (£354,000) a month and India about $1 million (£603,355) a month maintaining troops on
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