Fastest concert
The record for the fastest concert is 1,017 km/h (632 mph) on the Sony Ericsson ‘Gig in the Sky’ with British band, Jamiroquai, on the flight ZT6902 on the 27 February 2007 departing from Munich, Germany.
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Fastest compressed air powered car
The fastest compressed air powered car reached a speed of 129.2 km/h (80.3 mph), achieved by the Toyota Industries Corporation Dream Car Project (Japan), at the Japan Automobile Research Institute, Shirosato Test Center, Ibaraki, Japan, on 9 September 2011. Final speed taken from a timed average from two runs. Vehicle used three compressed air cylinders powering a twin-scroll air engine.
Fastest coxed eights rowing (men’s lightweight class)
*5:30.24 Germany (Klaus Altena, Christian Dahlke, Mike Kobor, Bernhard Stomporowski, Thomas Melges, Uwe März, Michael Buchheit, Kai von Warburg, Olaf Kaska) Montreal, Canada 1992 *Denotes non-Olympic boat classes.
Fastest coxed eights rowing (men’s class)
5:19.85 USA (Matt Deakin, Dan Beery, Beau Hoopman, Bryan Volpenhein, Pete Cipollone, Jason Read, Wyatt Allen, Chris Ahrens, Joseph Hansen) 15 August 2004
Fastest conventional motorcycle speed (female)
The fastest speed reached on a conventional motorcycle by a female pilot (as opposed to aerodynamic ‘streamliner’) is 374.208 km/h (232.522 mph), by Leslie Porterfield (USA) on a modified Suzuki Hayabusa at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, on 5 September 2008. In accordance with standard speed record practice, the record is the average of two timed runs over a mile (1.6 km) in opposite directions.
Fastest coxless fours rowing (men’s lightweight class)
5:45.60 Denmark (Thomas Poulsen, Thomas Ebert, Eskild Ebbesen, Victor Feddersen) Lucerne, Switzerland 9 July 1999
Fastest coxless fours rowing (men’s class)
5:41.35 Germany (Sebastian Thormann, Paul Dienstbach, Philipp Stüer, Bernd Heidicker) Seville, Spain 21 September 2002
Fastest coxed pairs rowing (men’s class)
*6:42.16 Igor Boraska, Tihomir Frankovic, Milan Razov (all Croatia) Indianapolis, USA 18 September 1994 *Denotes non-Olympic boat classes.
Fastest coxed fours rowing (men’s class)
*5:58.96 Germany (Matthias Ungemach, Armin Eichholz, Armin Weyrauch, Bahne Rabe, Jörg Dederding) Vienna, Austria 24 August 1991 *Denotes non-Olympic boat classes.
Fastest coxless pairs rowing (women’s class)
6:53.80 Georgeta Andrunache, Viorica Susanu (both Romania) Seville, Spain 21 September 2002