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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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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I was specifically asking for the ...
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Why was the marathon World Record not 2:03:02 in 2011?
Why exactly was Geoffrey Mutai's 2:03:02 in Boston (2011) not deemed the marathon World Record at the time?
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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 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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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.
Related questions:
Players with 300 or more goals for a single team ...
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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.
For ...
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Greatest comeback in 2nd leg match
In sports (particularly football), the knockout stage has a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually ...
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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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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 does Messi's 50th goal count as a record?
Last night, Messi scored his 50th goal of the season.
Why is it considered a new goal-scoring record?
Dixie Dean scored 60 goals for Everton in the FA First Division alone (he had 67 in total) in ...
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What is the world record in high jump if you allow taking off on both feet?
The current world record in normal high jump is 2.45 metres, set by Javier Sotomayor in 1993.
I read somewhere that in normal high jump, jumpers must take off on one foot. But if you relax the rules ...
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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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Indoor / outdoor track and field different records?
Why there are different records from indoor / outdoor performances?
I mean maybe distances 200m and 400m has different tracks (with different lengths of curves and straights) but why there are two ...
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What is the fastest recorded smash shot in tennis?
The fastest recorded tennis serve is about 260km/h but smash is far easier to do and shoot with far higher velocity. I am trying to find the maximum speed tennis players are able to shoot the ball and ...
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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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Which team has scored the most goals during the group stage of a single UEFA Champions League?
PSG just finished first of Group B in the UEFA Champions League Group stage.
PSG scored 25 times during the six games, finishing with an average goalscoring rate of 4.1666 per match.
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Why was Eliud Kipchoge's time from Nike's Breaking2 not a world record?
This is similar to Why was the marathon World Record not 2:03:02 in 2011? but the circumstances are different.
In 2017 Nike launched an effort to run a sub-2-hour marathon, which they billed ...
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Who was the youngest player to win an ATP World Tour tournament
I was trying to find the information about youngest player with ATP World Tour title.
I found on Wikipedia that Michael Chang is the youngest player to win Grand Slam title. Wikipedia also has list ...
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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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Record for player hitting the woodwork most number of times in a season in top European leagues?
Robin van Persie hitting the woodwork 10 times in a Premier League 2011/12 is the biggest one that I have found so far for Premier League. Is this the record for Premier League, and what is the record ...
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Which test player had 99.9 average in his test career?
Which test player has 99.9 average in his test career and in last match of his career he was out on 0 ? As if he had just one score in his last inning then his average would have became 100.
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