The record for the fastest 100 x 10 km (6.2 mile) relay is 77 hr 17 min 25 sec and was set by the Florida Striders Track Club, (USA) at Bishop John J. Snyder High School, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, from 3-6 December 2009. The event managed to raise over $6,000 for the Donna foundation to help fight breast cancer.
7:13.94 Global Athletics & Marketing, USA (Joey Woody, Karl Paranya, Rich Kenah, David Krummenacker) Boston, USA 6 February 2000
The fastest rotational speed for a ring or disc-shaped object was achieved by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, on 9 December 1985. Using an air turbine, the Demo 1C flywheel was spun up to a tip speed of 1405 m/s (5,058 km/h 3142.9 mph), at which speed it failed due to the stress on the materials involved.
10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 16 July 1988
Timothy Bud Badyna (USA) ran the 200 m backwards in a time of 32.78 sec on 17 January 2001 at Santa Clarita, California, USA for Guinness World Records: Primetime.
The record for the fastest time to run 20 km (12.4 miles) backwards is 2 hr 22 min 39 sec and was set by Mike Henderson (USA) at the New Alliance New Haven 20 km Road Race, New Haven, Connecticut, USA on 6 September 2004.
The fastest one mile (1.6 km) sack race is 16 min 41 sec and was set by Ashrita Furman (USA) in Baruun Salaa in Mongolia, on 19 May 2007.
Using just his feet, Rob Williams of Austin, Texas, USA, made a Bologna, cheese and lettuce sandwich, complete with olives on cocktail sticks, in 1 min 57 sec at the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime on 10 November 2000. The sandwich consisted of two slices of bread (which are taken out of the loaf packet in the time), Oscar Meyer Bologna (complete with rind, which he removed in the time), slices of square processed cheese (plastic removed during the time), lettuce, sliced tomatoes, mustard,
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The fastest ‘rollover’ of a videogame score is 6 min 21 sec, achieved by Nicholas Wietlisbach (USA) who broke the seven-digit score limit on Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 with a final score of 10,354,000 on 25 November 2009. Source: TG via http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=22&pi=23&gi=8830&vi=105103
The speed record for the fastest snowmobile is 277.13 km/h (172.2 mph) and was achieved by Chris Hanson (USA) on Lake Nipissing in North Bay, Ontario, Canada on 13 March 2004.