The fastest speed attained on a jet-powered street luge is 115.83 mph (186.41 km/h), achieved by Jason Bradbury (UK) on the set of The Gadget Show’s 200th episode in Bentwaters Parks, Suffolk, UK, on 9 August 2011. Adjudicated by Gaz Deaves
In 2010, US rapper B.o.B. (b. Bobby Simmons) notched up two UK No.1 singles in only eight weeks with his first two chart entries. They were “Nothin’ On You” (with Bruno Mars) on 29 May 2010 and “Airplanes” (with Hayley Williams) on 24 July 2010.
The fastest time to solve a Rubik’s Cube (3x3x3) by a robot is 3.253 seconds by CUBESTORMER 3, an ARM-powered LEGO robot built by Mike Dobson and David Gilday (both UK) and demonstrated at the Big Bang Fair in the Birmingham NEC, West Midlands, UK, on 15 March 2014. Mike and David took 18 months to build and perfect CUBESTORMER 3. They used commercially available LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits and a Galaxy S4 smartphone powered by an Exynos 5 Octa application processor with an eight-core
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The fastest rocket-powered model car is the ‘SST-3B Falcon’ with a speed of 462.84 km/h (287.6 mph), which was achieved by Samvir Thandi and The Heathland School (both UK), and measured at the Santa Pod Raceway, Northamptonshire, UK, on 14 March 2014.
A fourball consisting of Ben Crosby, Andrew Crawford, John Lyon and Russell Hayhoe (all UK) completed 18 holes in 1 hr 4 min 25 sec at Ponteland Golf Course, Northumberland, UK, on 19 June 2005. Chris was ready to accept this, but claim went gone missing – MFrigatti said to continue with process
1,000 m 2:14.96 Wilson Kipketer (Denmark) Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 20 February 2000
The fastest hat-trick of tries scored from the start of a match is 6 min 54 sec by Chris Thorman (UK) playing for Huddersfield Giants against Doncaster Dragons in the semi-final of the Buddies National League Cup at Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK on 19 May 2002.
5:25.36 Sonia O’Sullivan (Ireland) Edinburgh, UK 8 July 1994
The fastest shot on goal during an English Premier League game was recorded at 183 km/h (114 mph), when a football kicked by David Hirst (UK), playing for Sheffield Wednesday, hit the crossbar from 13. 5 m (14.8 yards; 44 ft), during their match against Arsenal at Highbury, London, UK on 16 September 1996.
Joanne Gambi (UK) climbed the highest peak on each continent in 799 days, starting with Mt McKinley, Alaska (North America), on 12 June 2003 and finishing at Puncak Jaya, Indonesia (Australasia) on 19 August 2005. The other peaks were: Kilimanjaro – 30 July 2003 Vinson Massif – 15 December 2003 Aconcagua – 16 January 2004 Everest – 24 may 2004 Elbrus – 20 July 2004