The quickest run achieved in Time Trial mode on 1080° Avalanche (Nintendo, 2003) is 40.38 seconds, set by Andrew “MrMiyagi” Nguyen (Australia) on 4 October 2006. Andrew beat the previous best of 40.48 seconds, set by Italian Andrea “Turtle7” Schiappacasse, using character Rob Haywood on the TenderFoot Pass course. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
Martin Brodeur (Canada) of the New Jersey Devils (USA) won his 500th career game faster than any other goalie, in his 908th game, on the 17 November 2007 against the Philadelphia Flyers (USA). Patrick Roy (Canada), the NHL’s all-time leader with 551 wins, recorded his 500th win in his 993rd game.
In 2007 Northrop Grumman (US), a company specialised in in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services, announced they had created a transistor with an operating frequency of over 1,000 gigahertz.
The fastest try in a rugby union Super Rugby match is 12 seconds and was achieved by Vula Maimuri (Fiji) for the Highlanders against the Crusaders (both New Zealand) at Christchurch, New Zealand, on 12 May 2001.
The fastest trek to the North Pole was 41 days 18 hours and 52 minutes and was achieved by David J.P. Pierce Jones (UK), Richard Weber (Canada), Tessum Weber (Canada) and Howard Fairbanks (South Africa) from 3 March to 14 April 2010. The team set out on 3 April from 82° 58′ 02″ N and 77° 23′ 3″ W and were picked up after reaching the North Pole, 90° N, on 14 April 2010. The total trek distance was 785 km (487.78 mi). They had
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The world record time for the 1 km cycle (unpaced, from standing start) is 58.875 seconds by Arnaud Tournant (France) at La Paz, Bolivia on 10 October 2001.
The fastest unpowered journey to the South Pole was made my Børge Ousland (Norway), who travelled on skis with assistance from a parafoil kite, in 34 days from 15 November to 19 December 1996. The journey was solo and unsupported, meaning he received no outside assistance. Note: This text is identical to the record for the Fastest solo unsupported (kite assisted) journey to the South Pole.
The fastest unsupported trek to the North Pole by a female is 48 days 22 hr and was achieved by Cecilie Skog (Norway), who left Ward-Hunt Island with teammates, Rolf Bae and Per Henry Borch (both Norway), on 6 March 2006 and reached the North Pole on 24 April 2006.
The fastest victory in WWF No Mercy on Nintendo 64 was achieved Jesse Krueger (USA) on 1 June 2001. Krueger won his exhibition mode match against an AI opponent set to Expert level in just 57 seconds, with count outs set to 20 seconds and with no TKO, DQ or rope break.
The fastest victory against a Legendary AI opponent on WWE Legends of Wrestlemania (Yuke’s, 2009) is 55 seconds, achieved by Carmelo Consiglio (USA) in California, USA, on 4 May 2009. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011