The most relay teams to complete a marathon is 2,373 achieved during Vienna City Marathon 2010 in Vienna, Austria, on 18 April 2010. Each team had 4 members, running lenghts of 16.1 km (10 mi), 5.7 km (3.54 mi), 9.1 km (5.65 mi) and 11.295 km (7.02 mi). The marathon was 42.195 km (26.22 mi) long.
The record for the most vertical distance ski-bobed in 12 hours is 32,736 m (107,401ft 4 in) and is held equally by Harald Brenter (Austria) and Hermann Koch (Austria) in Obertauern, Austria on 22 March 2007. They ski-bobed together during all the attempt but the record is set individually for both of them because they did not follow the guidelines for the team records. They ski-bobed for 11 hours and then they decided to stop.
The greatest height skiied uphill is 17,011.5 vertical metres (55,812.01 feet) by Günter Burgsteiner (Austria) on the Ahorn mountain, Mayrhofen, Austria over 19-20 March 2004 No sign of rest of claim as witness statements came in later than the rest.
The world’s smallest functioning mousetrap measures 9mm x 5mm (0.35 x 0.19 inches). It was constructed by Franz Rosenberger (Austria). It is made of wood and metal.
The tallest swing carousel, called “Prater Turm” is 117 metres (383.8 ft) and is operated by FUNTIME HandelsgmbH. It is located in the City of Vienna and was measured at the Vienna Recordia event in Vienna, Austria, on 26 September 2010. Vienna Recordia 2010 record. Olaf Kuchenbecker adjudicated. A Swing Carousel is also known as ‘Chair-O-Planes and is predominately a fairground/theme park ride.
The most hits of a tennis ball with a tennis racket handle in one minute is 185 and was achieved by Florian Zoller (Austria) at the Vienna Recordia 2008 in Vienna, Austria, on 28 September 2008.
An estimated 40,000 – 80,000 men lost their lives during the First World War in the Tyrolean Alps, with avalanches triggered by gunfire. A total of 18,000 Austrian and Italian troops were reported to have been lost in the Dolomite valleys of northern Italy on 13 Dec 1916 in more than 100 snow avalanches. On 31 May 1970, 18,000 people perished when an avalanche hit the village of Yungay, Huascaran, Peru.
The largest fruit salad weighed 8,690 kg (19,158 lb 2.72 oz) and was achieved by Spar Österreichische Warenhandels-AG (Austria) in Vienna, Austria, on 27 June 2014.
The youngest individual winner of a Snowboarding World Cup event Sophie Rodriguez (France, b.7 July 1988) aged 15 years 200 days at Kreischberg, Austria on 23 January 2004.
Patrick Kluivert (Netherlands, b. 1 July 1976) was 18 years 327 days old when he scored the only goal in the 1995 UEFA Champions League final, playing for Ajax (Netherlands) against AC Milan (Italy) at the Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria, on 24 May 1995.