Event class: record, race, set, time, marathon, world, first, speed, minutes, hours

Events with high posterior probability

Nell McAndrew	† -- half marathon ‡ -- 5-mile race ¥ -- of the 13,064 women who completed the race McAndrew finished 46th McAndrew's father, Ted, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2003 ;, he is in remission.
Terenzo Bozzone	Bozzone holds the current course record for the Wildflower Triathlon set in 2006.
Frith van der Merwe	Her 1989 record time of 3:30:36 in the 56 km Two Oceans Marathon also still stands.
Michael Blackburn (sailor)	He did so on 9 March 2005 in a record time (for sailing) of 13 hours 1 minute.
Tom Simpson	In spring 1958 he raced in the Daily Herald Trophy at the White Monday Meeting at Fallowfield before racing in Sofia with Sheil for two weeks and winning the national pursuit championship at Herne Hill.
Robert Warren Miller	In October, 2003, Miller's monohull yacht, the Mari-Cha IV, set a new world record, becoming the first monohull ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean in under seven days.
Patrick Bertoletti	On September 9, 2012, Patrick took first place in Wild Eggs National Pancake Eating Championship by eating 50 king pancakes in 10 minutes.
John Maclean (wheelchair sportsperson)	He participated in the 2001 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as part of Team Aspect, which came second in its division.
Patrick Hall (athlete)	After the jersey swap, Hall raced at the 2010 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, where he finished in 33rd place in his age group and crossed the line in 2 hours, 35 minutes, 42 seconds.
Ray Hatton	He competed in the 55-59 age division in 1987, winning the 5,000 meters and placing second in the 1,500 meters.
Takeru Kobayashi	On August 26, 2012, Kobayashi set the new world record at the New York state fair in Syracuse, for eating 110 hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Mike King (BMX rider)	-- Started racing : June 29, 1975, one day shy of his sixth birthday and approximately six and a half months after his elder brother Eddy started racing on January 15, 1975 at the Silver Wing BMX track in San Diego, California.
Roy Maloy	In June 2011, Maloy attempted to set a record by walking more than 5 km in under an hour on 91.
Frank Southall	In 1933, Southall and Stan Butler rode the Oak Tandem 100, winning in 4h 1m 3s, beating the record by two minutes.
Robert W. Pidacks	His time of one hour, 32 minutes and 19 seconds beat National Combined Champion Ted Farwell by 21 seconds and Pidacks become the number one cross country skier on the 1952 Olympic Team.
Tom Bolton (baseball)	Diane achieved an additional goal November 20, 2011 when she completed running her 100th marathon.
Seth Enslow	In 1999, Seth made his first attempt to break the overall record at fellow motocross rider Mike Cinqmars' property with a ramp designed by Johnny Airtime of Air Time Association.
Amol Muzumdar	In January 2007, he became the highest-ever run-scorer in the Ranji Trophy for Mumbai beating the record set by Ashok Mankad.
Valmir Nunes	In October 2010 Nunes attempted to break the world record for a 24 hour treadmill race.
Ellen MacArthur	In 2005, MacArthur beat Francis Joyon's existing world record for a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation.
Joe Davis	He made history in 1955 by achieving the first officially recognised maximum break of 147 in snooker in an exhibition match at Leicester Square Hall, the country's mecca for billiards enthusiasts.
Joyce Smith	In 1981, she won the first London Marathon in 2:29:57, becoming the first British woman and the first woman over 40 to complete the distance in less than two and a half hours.
Gus Monckmeier	After Ned Crane was disqualified on the final lap of the 1910 running (for almost taking Arthur Greiner's National off the track when pitting) and Chester Cheney's car broke down after 42 minutes, Monckmeier was left to carry the flag, taking third place in the Fox River Trophy in just over three hours before more than 50,000 spectators.
Chay Blyth	In 1968, with no sailing experience, he competed in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, aboard a 30 ft yacht called Dytiscus retiring just past the Cape of Good Hope.
Ted Simon	In late 1973, sponsored by The Sunday Times, Simon began travelling around the world on a 500 cc Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle.
David Goggins	On January 20, 2013, in Brentwood, TN, David broke the world record for the most pull-ups done in 24 hours.
Thomas Wessinghage	Accordingly, he dropped from third to sixth during the last lap, and lost to the winner, Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan, by almost four seconds (see, for example,'' World Athletics Championships 1983'' / Yleisurheilun MM-kisat 1983, written by the'' Runner'' / Juoksija magazine's journalists and published in Finland in 1983).
Maria Mutola	71 in the 800 m, again behind Jelimo, who completed a symbolic feat by beating Mutola's meet record which had stood since 1994.
Lyman James Briggs	During this time he instrumented two stratospheric balloon flights, the second of which broke the existing record for altitude in 1936.
Rheed McCracken	In December, he competed at the 2011 International Wheelchair and Amputee Championships in Dubai, where he won the 100 metre wheelchair racing event with a time of 16.
Dee Caffari	In February 2009 Dee Caffari completed the Vendee Globe race and set a new record becoming the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, around the world in both directions.
Ron Hill	Hill was the first winner of the Freckleton Half Marathon in 1964 and still holds the course record of 1 hour 4 minutes.
Sarah Reinertsen	She first attempted the race in 2004, but was disqualified when she reached the end of the bike course 15 minutes after cut-off time.
Derek Piggott	In addition he had success as a competition glider pilot winning three regional championships, was the UK National aerobatic glider champion in 1961 and set several national gliding records including the single-seat altitude record of over in an active thunderstorm in a Slingsby Skylark.
Jeff Evanshine	On July 14, 1991, Evanshine attacked out of the shattered field on Colorado Springs' Garden of the Gods circuit, caught the Belorussian Alexandre Kozlov on the final lap of the race, and won solo, in dramatic fashion with a lead of nearly one minute, posting a final time of 3 hours, 3 minutes, 33 seconds for the 77-mile race.
Paulo Radmilovic	He won his first Amateur Swimming Association title in 1907 when victorious in the open water 5 mile race in the River Thames.
Lewis MacKenzie	According to an article in the 23 September 2007 Victoria Times Colonist, he is an enthusiastic, skilled, and competitive race car driver having won the 2007 Diamond Class Ontario championship for Formula Fords at the age of 67.
Rhydian	Rhydian joined one million runners nationwide, winning the 2012 Cardiff Mile for Sport Relief in'' an impressive five minutes 40 seconds.''
Joe Scott (walker)	In 1879, Scott became the New Zealand champion after walking 106 miles (170 km) in 24hr against eight other competitors on the 22-laps-to-the-mile course at the Garrison Hall in Dunedin.
Takeru Kobayashi	On June 28, 2010, Kobayashi announced he would not compete in the Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Competition.
Richard Schreder	Schreder immediately started on the HP-11, completing the prototype in time to fly it to a third-place finish in the 1963 World Soaring Championships in Argentina.
Neil Matterson	On 29 May 1885 he beat Charles A. Messenger for # 200 a side over the champion course was then matched to row Peter Kemp, but, being in ill health, forfeited his first deposit of # 25.
Harry Kelley (rower)	The son of Jack Kelley, another Thames waterman, Kelley's first Championship win was in 1857, when he beat James Messenger for the Championship of England.
Takeru Kobayashi	Born in Nagano, Japan, Kobayashi set his first record at his rookie appearance on July 4, 2001, when he ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes at the Nathan's Coney Island hot dog-eating contest, doubling the previous record of 25.
Frank Southall	He broke his first record on Easter Monday 1925, when he won the Etna time trial on the Bath Road course in 2h 8m 31s, beating the record by five minutes.
Peter Kemp (rower)	In 1873 he and his brother Thomas won a double sculls race of four miles in a time of thirty-three minutes.
Donald Campbell	After more delays, he finally achieved his seventh WSR at Lake Dumbleyung near Perth, Western Australia, on the last day of 1964, at a speed of.
Istvan Javorek	At A&M, Javorek designed the whole conditioning program for the 1986 world fastest 200m sprinter, Floyd Heard ; former 10,000 m world record holder, Arturo Barrios ; javelin thrower Juan de la Garza ; Canadian long jump record holder, Ian James ; Mexican record triple jumper, Francisco Olivares and several other top athletes.
Stamata Revithi	Violet Piercy, of the United Kingdom, was the first woman to complete an officially timed marathon race : she clocked a time of 3 hours and 40 minutes in a British race on 3 October 1926.
Peter Kemp (rower)	His next major race was in October 1884 over three and a quarter miles and for # 200 a side against Neil Matterson, a man Kemp, and Bill Beach, were later to row for the World Title.
Gurmeet Singh	He is a current Indian record holder in the 20 km race walk, which he set in the Indian Grand Prix I in Patiala in May 2011.
Teddy Tetzlaff	On March 19, 1911 a Lozier ads claimed, a stock 49 hp (37 kW) model piloted by Teddy Tetzlaff set a world record for 100 mi (160 km) at 1:14:29.
Rod Coleman (motorcycle racer)	Rod Coleman is the son of Percy'' Cannonball Coleman'' also from Wanganui who first raced at the 1930 Isle of Man TT but retired from the 1930 Junior TT and Senior TT Races.
Michael Anthony Bilandic	The Chicago Marathon had its first running in 1977 and Bilandic participated, finishing with a time of 4 hours.
Tony Pond	In 1988 Pond and Rover attempted to achieve the first ever average 100 mph lap around the Isle of Man TT Motor Bike race circuit in a standard production car namely a Rover Vitesse -- however they were unsuccessful, largely due to wet weather on the mountain section of the course.
Jonathan Brownlee	He used to swim for Aireborough Swimming club and still holds the record for the A&W boys 9/10 yrs 2 lengths backstroke, which was set in 2000.
Yiannis Tridimas	In 2003 Yiannis, along with team mate Ray Baines were winners in the veteran section of the Long score class, at the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon (KIMM).
George David	George David's maxi Rambler shattered the 2012 Newport to Bermuda yacht Race record, shaving 14 hours off the previous fastest time recorded in the 635 mile race.
Paulo Radmilovic	A reporter for the' Swimming Times' wrote of his 1925 victory : Until last year he had never held the 1 mile championship of England, but at the East India docks he had quite a comfortable win.''
James Cracknell	The attempt was to launch the 2010 Ride Across Britain that Cracknell's company organised In April 2010 Cracknell became the highest placed Briton ever in the 25 year history of the Marathon Des Sables - finishing 12th.
Kevin Murphy (swimmer)	He also holds the record for the earliest Channel crossing of the year, set on 29 May 1990.
Barbara Warren	All told, Barbara completed 13 Ford Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii, winning her age group in the 2003 Ironman Kona.
Ron Hill	In an interview with Amby Burfoot of Runner's World, Hill commented :'' I won the Commonwealth Championships in Edinburgh in 2:09:28, which I claim was a world record because the attempts to remeasure Derek Clayton's course in Antwerp -LSB- Clayton ran 2:08:34 at Antwerp in 1969 -RSB- were never successfully carried out.''
Joanna Pajkowska	In 2000, on the 40-foot yacht Ntombifuti she finished 4th in the class (in the field of 24 competitors) in the singlehanded transatlantic race OSTAR, from Plymouth (UK) to Newport (US).
Donovan Bailey	In May 1997 he raced against Michael Johnson in a 150 m race at Toronto's SkyDome in a bid to truly determine who the world's fastest man was.
Wolfgang Klemperer	The following year in 1921 with an improved design called'' Blaue Maus'', he surpassed with flight time the previous duration record of set Orville Wright.
Ellie Goulding	Goulding is a keen runner, aiming to run six miles every day and in 2010 announced plans to run a marathon.
James Glaisher	His ascent on 5 September 1862 broke the world record for altitude, but he passed out around 8,800 metres before a reading could be taken.
A.T. Goldie Gardner	On 31 May 1939 just before the outbreak of World War II driving his special engineered MG, in Dessau, Germany, Goldie Gardner took the 750cc up to 1,100 cc class records over 2 kilometres, 1 mile, and 5 kilometres distances, at average speeds of 203.
Ed Whitlock	He then further improved on his age category world record at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon on October 16, 2011, lowering the record to 3:15:54.
James Spithill	And again, at the helm of the Oracle USA AC72 yacht during a practice run on October, 16, 2012, Spithill pitch-poled it again.
Julia Shaw	She has twice broken the competition record for 100 miles, currently holding it with her 2010 time of 3:45:22.
John Walker (athlete)	During 1981 he set a New Zealand all-comers' mile record of 3:50.
Jasper Carrott	Carrott was a keen runner and supported his local Knowle Fun Run through sponsorship and publicity, including 2001 where he paid out several thousand pounds based on the # 10 per person who beat him to the finish line.
F. Taylor Brown	In 1962, he set world record when he reached 65,000 feet in two minutes, fifty-eight point five seconds from a standing start while piloting a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
Robert Coombes	However he became the Champion of the Thames on 19 August 1846 after beating Charles Campbell easily on the Putney to Mortlake course, known as the Championship Course.
Franz Stampfl	Of particular note is that he coached Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four minute mile in May 1954.
Erwin Baker	In 1915, Baker drove from Los Angeles to New York City in 11 days, 7 hours and fifteen minutes in a Stutz Bearcat, and the following year drove a Cadillac 8 roadster from Los Angeles to Times Square in seven days, eleven hours and fifty-two minutes while accompanied by an Indianapolis newspaper reporter.
Tom Sullivan (rower)	He was a member of a widely known Wellington Rowing Club four-oared crew (W. Bridson, E. J. Rose, T. Sullivan, and T. McKay) that won all four championship titles under the auspices of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association during 1889 -- 90.
Alain Robert	On 12 April 2012, he set a Guinness World Record for climbing the 300m-high Aspire Tower in Doha, Qatar in the fastest time (1 hour, 33 minutes and 47 seconds) On 21 June 2012, he legally climbed the 110-metre high Mauritius Telecom tower in Mauritius as part of an advertising campaign for the launching of 4G cellular technology by the telecommunications operator.
"King" Bennie Nawahi	Nawahi set a remarkable swimming record for blind people in 1946.
Neal Evenhuis	On 12 May 1980, he set a record in flying disc games, which he held for 20 years.
Joey Kelly	On 23 November 2006, he took part in another RTL Fundraising Marathon, setting a new world record on a novelty twin cycle, covering 135.
Olivier de Kersauson	It was at the helm of this boat that Olivier de Kersauson took the Jules Verne Trophy for the second time in 2004 (63 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes).
Zvonko Bogdan	He is considered one of the most successful racers of Vojvodina In 2001, at Zagreb's Hippodrome, he won the Hrvatski kasački derbi (Croatian Harness Race Derby), establishing a record that still stands.
Jimmie Guthrie	On lap 5 of the 1937 Senior TT Race, Jimmie Guthrie retired on the Mountain Section of the course just below the' The Cutting.'
Shelly Woods	As a wheelchair athlete, she has achieved considerable success having won the Great North Run in 2005, setting a new British record for the half-marathon in the process.
Ian McKeever (mountaineer)	McKeever set a new record for the most climbs of Croagh Patrick in 2011, when he made 35 summits in 80 climbing hours.
Jimmie Guthrie	During the 1928 Senior TT Race, Jimmie Guthrie retired at Kirk Michael on lap 1 with an engine problem and the race was won by Charlie Dodson riding a Sunbeam at an average race speed of 62.
John Cordts	He competed in many events, ranging from Harewood Acres (where he still holds the track record when it closed in 1970), Mosport, Mont-Tremblant, and Westwood in Canada to various tracks in the US and even Japan.
Patrick Bertoletti	On Feb 3, 2013, Patrick took first place in Fat Tuesday King Cake Eating World Championship by eating 12 king cakes in 8 minutes.
Boris Johnson	On 4 August 2013, Johnson took part in the inaugural Ride London event, a 100 mile cycle ride from the Olympic Park in Stratford, passing through the Surrey Hills and finishing on the Mall in central London.
Sidney Hatch	In October 1916 he set a record in the 96 mile, Milwaukee to Chicago Run, completing the race in 14 hours, 50 minutes and 30 seconds.
Sarah Cook (rower)	Despite further injuries (broken sternum after a motor vehicle accident) which kept her out of the boat for two months, she won selection into the Australian Senior Women's Eight for the 2006 World Championships at Eton, UK, where the crew won bronze.
Patrick Bertoletti	On July 4, 2008, he finished 4th at the Nathan's Famous contest, consuming 38 HDB (hot dogs & buns) in the 10 minute contest.
James Cracknell	In December 2008 he set off yet again with former team-mate from the Atlantic Row Ben Fogle, and Dr. Ed Coats (the winner of a nationwide search), this time to take part in the inaugural Amundsen Omega3 South Pole Race.
Lynn Jennings	In 1999, approaching age 39, she ran officially in the Boston Marathon in 2:38.
Mary Decker	In 1979, she became the second American woman (the first was Francie Larrieu) to break the 4:30 mile in American record time.
Ed Eyestone	In 1986, Eyestone won the San Francisco Bay to Breakers 12KM race, defeating an estimated 110,000 competitors in what the Guinness Book of Records considers the world's largest footrace.
C. B. Fry	This is often incorrectly claimed to have stood as a world record for 21 years, but this length of time actually only refers to how long he held the university record, Cambridge's H. S. O. Ashington adding three-quarters of an inch to Fry's distance in 1913.