The highest score for a woman is 4,400 points by Nadine De Villiers (RSA) on 5 January 2001 at Gauteng Witbank Championships, Wolwekrans, South Africa.

Capt. William Raynor was the oldest person to receive the medal. It was awarded when he was 62, for the part he played in blowing up an arms store in Delhi besieged by insurgents on 11 May 1857, the second day of the Indian Mutiny.

The longest-lived of all the 1351 recipients of the Victoria Cross has been Lt-Col. Harcus Strachan. Born in Boness, Falkirk on 7 Nov 1884, he received the VC in 1917 and died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 1 May 1982 aged 97 years 175 days.

The only three men ever to have been awarded a bar to the Victoria Cross (instituted 29 Jan 1856) are: Surg.-Capt. (later Lt-Col.) Arthur Martin-Leake VC*, VD, RAMC (1874–1953) (1902 and bar 1914). Capt. Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC*, MC, RAMC (1884–1917) (1916 and bar posthumously 1917). Second-Lt. (later Capt.) Charles Hazlitt Upham VC*, NZMF (1908–94) (1941 and bar 1942).

Rocky Marciano (USA) (b. Rocco Francis Marchegiano) (1923-69) is the only world champion at any weight to have won every fight of his entire completed professional career, from 17 March 1947-21 September 1955 (he announced his retirement on 27 April 1956); 43 of his 49 fights were by knock-outs or stoppages.

Sarah Chapman (UK) walked a distance of 5,000 m (16,404 ft) on her hands in an 8-hour period at Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, on 3 June 2002.

The Cape Cod Canal, which crosses the land that connects Cape Cod to mainland Massachusetts, USA, was constructed between 1909 and 1916. It is 28 km (17.4 miles) long and 164.6 m (540 foot) wide. It is a segment of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, which runs for 4,800 km (3,000 miles) along the eastern coast of the USA.

Mark Boucher (b. 3 December 1976, South Africa) dismissed 504 batsmen – 482 caught and 22 stumped – in 255 innings (134 matches) playing as wicket-keeper for South Africa from 1997 to 2010.

The most medals won in biathlon at the Winter Paralympics is six, by Verena Bentele (Germany) between 1998 and 2010.

The most gold medals won in biathlon at the Winter Paralympics is five, by Verena Bentele (Germany) between 1998 and 2010.