Questions tagged [records]
Questions about records, or statistics deemed best in a specific sport and/or event. This tag should be combined with a tag for the specific sport in which the record lies.
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Hole-in-one without touching the ground
Is there golf terminology for a hole-in-one that doesn't hit the ground and roll into the hole but rather sinks directly into the hole?
I can't really follow what happens in this video but going by ...
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What is the most match points saved by a tournament winner?
Recently Martin Kližan won ATP tournament in Rotterdam. On the way to the final he saved 8 match points (5 against Batistuta Agut and 3 against Mahut).
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Footballers with most free kicks scored
Who are the footballers with most free kicks scored? We all remember Juninho Pernambucano, but who else?
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Who are the football players that have scored in every minute of a football match?
Who are the footballers that have scored at least one goal in each minute from the first to 90th?
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How many football teams have won the treble?
Winning the "treble" means winning the three main titles of the season:
Continental championship (e.g. Champions League)
National league championship
National cup title
How many teams in ...
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Most 5 set matches won in a row
Alexander Zverev won 3 consecutive 5 set matches in 2018 Roland Garros before losing to Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals.
What is the record for most consecutive 5 set match wins in the history of ...
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Players with 300 or more goals for a single team in all competitions (European clubs)
Having already started a discussion for the players that has 300 or more goals in top flight domestic league for an European club let's distinguish a question for players with more than 400 goals in ...
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Players with 300 or more goals in top flight domestic league (European clubs)
Who are the players that has more than 300 goals in top flight domestic league, combined for all the teams that they have played.
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Which team got the highest possession but still lost the match?
In the second round of 2017/18 Premier League season, Arsenal lost to Stoke City despite of having 77% possession. Does it set the record for the highest possession team losing the match? If not, ...
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Players with 400 or more goals in all club competitions (European clubs)
Who are the players that has more than 400 goals in all club competitions, combined for all the teams that they have played. Excluding friendly matches and counting only domestic cups, the domestic ...
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Why is there a gap in pole-vault records starting in 1994 and resuming as of 2020?
Looking at the Men's pole vault world record progression on Wikipedia, the record advances fairly regularly starting in the late '50 up through 1994. There are no new records until 2014, and then the ...
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What is the record for most turnovers by an NFL team that won the game?
In the 2014 NFC Championship game, the Seattle Seahawks committed 5 turnovers (4 interceptions and one fumble) and still won the game. What is the record for most turnovers by an NFL team in a ...
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Fastest opening goal of a FIFA World Cup
What was the fastest opening goal of a FIFA World Cup?
This is not the fastest opening goal in a single match across tournaments, but fastest goal(the first goal of that particular World edition) of ...
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How many MLB players have hit 4 or more Home Runs in a game?
On June 6th, 2017, Scooter Gennett hit 4 home runs to become the first Cincinnati Red ever to do so.
Who are the other people who have hit at least 4 HRs in a single game? Please provide name and the ...
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What would explain the large jumps in performance in the Men's 50m Freestyle Long Course World Records?
I made a graph showing the world record for the Men's 50m freestyle (long course) swimming.
I noticed that there were significant performance jumps in 1980 and 2008. Otherwise, the times remain stable ...
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What's the highest number of points without winning the Premier League?
In the 2018-19 Premier League season, Liverpool finished 2nd with 97 points. Has any team ever got more points than this without winning the league?
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Sprint running record with non-null initial speed (100 m)
The 100 m sprint competition starts from standing still. I was wondering, are there records of people running 100 m with starting speed different from zero?
I would imagine sprinters might be able to ...
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Is Roger Federer's 65 consecutive Grand Slams a record?
In 2016, Roger Federer missed a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, the French Open. This was the first Grand Slam he had not competed in since the since 2000 Australian Open, i.e. 65 ...
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How many times an MLB team has won a game with no hits?
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates tied 0-0 at the end of the 9th inning on August 23rd 2017. With one out and a runner on the second base, the pirates had a chance to win the game with no ...
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What is the record for the most family members competing in the same Olympic Games?
Lily, Liina and Leila Luik are sisters from Estonia who could be the first set of identical triplets to compete in the Olympics
Has it ever happened in the Olympic history that 3 members of the same ...
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Has there ever been a game-winning/tying drive that started with less than 13 seconds?
In the January 23, 2022 NFL Divisional playoff game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills, the Chiefs trailed 36-33 in the 4th quarter when they started a drive at their own 25-yard line ...
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Who holds the most World Championship titles in a mainstream/Olympic sports discipline?
Since Surfing became an Olympic discipline at the 2020 (21) Games, the 11 (eleven!) annual World Championship titles of Surfing Legend Kelly Slater (92, 94-98, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11) sound like an even ...
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Which non-judged Olympic event has had the longest streak of different countries winning gold, ending in the most recent Olympics?
I want to know which non-judged Olympic event(s) is/are hardest for one country to dominate.
Which event has had the longest streak of totally different countries winning gold, with the streak ...
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What is the biggest sports stadium in the world?
Which sports stadium (meaning any building designed to host sporting events) in the world, is the largest and who plays there? I'm thinking the largest as in the amount of people it can hold, but if ...
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What is the worst recorded record for a team that was, the previous year, a Stanley cup finalist?
Looking at the Habs this year is... well, pain.
And I'm starting to wonder, will they hit the 'Worst record for a team that was a Stanley cup finalist the year prior' record.
So what is that record in ...
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Which soccer players have more goals than games at the club level?
Are there some football players who have better average than 1 goal per game in their club career? Or if we restrict only to one competition, not the whole career? Or to one season of a competition?
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Is it true that a sprinter ran the 100m in 21.73 seconds in a World Championship?
In many websites (especially in Spanish), it is mentioned that the worst performance in Men's 100m is that of Kim Collins, 21.73 seconds at Athens World Championship in 1997. To make things more ...
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The longest Olympic winning streak?
Which was the longest winning streak in Olympics in the same specialty?
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The longest Olympic winning streak for a nation
Asking this question I was thinking about the longest gold medal streak for a nation in a speciality.
So it mean both summer and winter Olympic games and also for team or individual speciality.
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Which countries have won the fewest medals at the Olympics?
I am curious about the countries that have won the fewest medals at the Olympics - or are there countries that never won any kind of medal at the Olympics?
To keep the list a sensible size, let's ...
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Are World Records set in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics not considered Olympic records?
As the title is asking, why is this? Why aren't records set in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics considered Olympic records? This IS the Olympics that we're watching on tv right now and that's going on in ...
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Players with 300 or more goals for a single team in top flight domestic league (European clubs)
When Messi passed 300 goals for Barcelona, I asked this question, but couldn't find an answer anywhere. Who has scored more goals than Messi for a single club?
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What longstanding NCAA Division 1 schools have never won a championship in any team sport?
Kansas State has never won a team title in any NCAA sport, either men's or women's.
Are there any other teams that have been in NCAA Division I since at least 1973 (when the current three-division ...
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Which climbers have successfully scaled a wall with 15C difficulty?
I have been going through Alex Harrold's podcast in the Tim Ferris show, and there he says that there are only two climbers in the world who have successfully climbed a 15C difficulty wall.
Were ...
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Who holds the record for most dunks in a single playoff game?
Who holds the record for most dunks in a single postseason game?
This is not restricted to a single league.
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basketball best scorer in one single game
Who is the best scorer in a single FIBA sanctioned basketball game in history? I've heard of a player in the Middle East who scored 110 points (with 33 3-pointers), is that true?
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Lowest average to bowl a 300 game?
What is the lowest sanctioned average to bowl a perfect 300 game?
I'm sure someone who is not a really good bowler got lucky and threw 12 strikes in a game. I wonder how bad that bowler was. I looked ...
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How many 147 were made in a decider frame
I am curious to know how many times maximum breaks were scored in a decider frame. I remember one from Ronnie but don't remember the opponent.
Were there any more records like this?
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What is the longest drought between a team's two titles?
Is the Chicago Cubs' victory after 108 years (1908 to 2016) the longest drought between a team's two titles in North American major sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB)?
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Greatest weight ever lifted (with good evidence)
It is widely reported that Paul Anderson lifted 6270lbs in a "backlift", but I have never seen a photo of this event and it seems that perhaps the story is exaggerated. So my question is, ...
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Most final appearances without winning a title in one season
Carsten Ramelow, Bernd Schneider and Oliver Neuville lost three finals in 2002:
DFB Pokal (2-4 to Schalke 04, with Leverkusen)
Champions League (1-2 to Real Madrid, with Leverkusen)
FIFA World Cup (0-...
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Multiple hits in an inning by a pitcher
Today against the Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg started the third inning with a single and later hit a three-run home run in that same inning. When was the last time a ...
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The longest super tie break?
What is the longest super tie break (10 points final set) in tennis history in official ATP and WTA matches?
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If a swimmer breaks a record in a medley event, does the record count towards the individual event or the medley event?
If a swimmer breaks, for instance, the 100-meter free stroke record in a medley event does that record count towards the hundred meters discipline or are those records held apart?
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What is the NFL record for most receivers with a catch in a single game on one team?
The Saints are up to ten unique receivers with at least one catch in tonight's game against the Ravens, and I can find a reference to the Packers having a franchise record of 12 that's been reached ...
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Most number of extra-time Goals
On 30-Oct-2012, Arsenal defeated Reading with an incredible score of 7-5. A more astonishing fact is that 4 goals were scored in Extra-time.
Is this the record for the most number of goals in extra-...
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Why are pole vault indoor records better than outdoor's?
In September 2020, Duplantis beated the world's pole vault record with a 6,15m jump. World Athletics mentioned Duplantis scales 6.15m in Rome, world's highest ever outdoor vault, where I find the ...
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What is the record for greatest number of athletes with the same finish time in one event?
On Sunday 10 July 2016 at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, three athletes in the men's 5000m final finished with exactly the same time of 13:40:85 (a fourth arrived only a hundredth ...
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What is the longest duration a team didn't register a shot on goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs?
The Pittsburgh Penguins didn't have a shot on goal for about 37 minutes in game 1 of the 2016-17 Stanley Cup finals. Although the Penguins fired a number of shots, they all either went wide or got ...
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Maximum match point saved in a tennis match?
What is the record of saved match points in a ATP/WTA tennis match?
And what about limited at grand slam matches?
I mean that player who saved match points finally wins the game
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