The defending champion in the event posts a time of 12.75 seconds, breaking a world record that stood for more than 13 years.

I was like, this could potentially be a world record,” Aries Merritt said. Merritt, an assistant coach for Texas State, was in the crowd to watch his pupil, Ja’Shaun Lloyd, run in the previous heat. He stuck around for Tharp’s race,

As the world's de facto record adjudicator, Guinness World Records keeps tabs on all manner of weird and wonderful feats. Toyota's humanoid robot which happens to be really good at basketball is a Guinness World Record holder, alongside the man who ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse. It grieved me to eventually learn that he was a fiction ...

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships, or any kind of continental or global meeting.

Jonathan, the 194-year-old tortoise, is already a Guinness World Record holder and now has officially cemented his status as a Guinness Icon. (Adobe Stock)

The world's oldest living land animal, Jonathan the tortoise, extended his record to 194 years and was officially named a Guinness World Records Icon.

Some world records just make you sit up and take notice and this is one of them. Here's how one man climbed twice the height of Everest in just one day