The record for the fastest body vertical one hand hop on 10 m is 13.6 seconds and was achieved by Rodolfo Reyes (Germany) in Oberhausen, Germany during the Centro Festival, on 9 September 2006.

Roy Makaay (Netherlands) scored the opening goal for Bayern Munich against Real Madrid in just 10 seconds in Munich, Germany, on 7 March 2007. Bayern Munich went on to win the match 2-1. The final aggregate score over both legs of their encounter stood at 4-4, but Bayern went through to the next round of the Champions League on the away-goals rule.

Markus Riese (Germany) cycled 50 km (31 miles) backwards in a time of 1 hr 46 min 59 sec on the track of VC Darmstadt 1899 e.V. cycling club, Darmstadt, Germany, on 24 May 2003. Standing start; standard 400 m track.

The fastest electric locomotive is the multi-system electric 1216 050 (type ES 64 U4), built by Siemens and owned by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). The locomotive, driven by Alex Dworaczek from Munich (Germany), reached a speed of 357.0 km/h (221.82 mph) on the high speed line Ingolstadt – Nuremberg, in Germany, on 2 September 2006.

The fastest half marathon run backwards is 1 hr 40 min 29 sec by Achim Aretz (Germany) at the 19th TUSEM August Blumensaat in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on 28 November 2009. Of the 464 total participants in the marathon (all of whom ran forwards except Aretz), Aretz finished in 123rd place overall. He was witnessed and videotaped by Christoph Diehl and Jan Verhoeven, who ran and cycled the half marathon behind him, respectively.

The fastest time to lunge a mile is 37 min 58 sec and was set by Dorothea Voegeli (Switzerland) in Dachau, Germany on 6 November 2005.

The fastest marathon backwards on inline skates is 1 hr 45 min 56 sec and was achieved by Werner Fischer (Germany) at the 2006 Berlin Marathon, Berlin, Germany, on 23 September 2006.

In January 2011 researchers using the FLASH X-ray laser in Hamburg, Germany, revealed their technique for molecular movie making using ultra-fast X-ray pulses. Their result is a 2-frame movie of a micro-model of the Brandenburg Gate with a time interval of just 0.00000000000005 seconds, or 50 femtoseconds.

The fastest time for 1,000 runners to run 400 m in relay is 21 hr 57 min 46 sec and was achieved in an event organised by Turn und Sportgemeinde (Germany) in Lollar, Germany, from 14-15 July 2008.

The fastest remote-controlled jet-powered model aircraft (RC) is a turbine-powered airplane created by Niels Herbrich (Germany) which reached a speed of 706.97 km/h (439.29 mph) at the WLP Ballenstedt airfield in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, on 14 September 2013.