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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What's the longest streak of games with homeruns for a batter?
On August 15 2017 Giancarlo Stanton hit a homerun for a 6th straight games. This has made me to know the followings
What is the longest number of consecutive games for a player with homeruns?
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What is the most goals conceded by previous year champions in new season 1st game in top 5 European league?
Chelsea have conceded 3 goals against Burnley in new season first game of English Premier League 2017/18 being champion of previous year.
Is this the most for a previous year champion in top 5 ...
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Longest time between ATP or WTA #1?
What is the longest time from the first to the last time that a player was ranked number 1 of the ATP/WTA rankings?
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Has there ever been a football player who held the title of "most goals in one season in history" in two different countries?
One of my favourite football players, Eran Zahavi, broke the record for most goals in one season in Israel two years ago. He's currently well on his way to break the same record in China - the most ...
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Which tennis number one played the fewest tournaments in a year?
Roger Federer is currently number 3 in the world with only 7 tournaments played this year, but is it possible for him to return to number 1 in the world in the ATP rankings this year.
What is the ...
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Shortest time between grand slam walk offs
Steve Pearce of Toronto Blue Jays hit game winning grand slam walk offs on July 27th and 30th 2017 against Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angels respectively.
With a 3 days span between Pearce's ...
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
I would like to know football match with highest number goals scored for both teams combined in both international football, and the top European leagues like the English Premier League, La Liga etc.
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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 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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Most first class century in cricket? [closed]
Which batsman has scored most first class century in history of cricket?
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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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10 title at Montecarlo for Nadal is a record?
Nadal has won his 10th title on clay of Montecarlo, is this a record for winning of a single tennis tournament?
I would like to consider only ATP/WTA tournaments from the Open Era that begins in 1968,...
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How many NBA teams have won a playoff game starting 2 or more rookies?
After the Bucks win on Saturday, starting Thon Maker and Malcolm Brogdon, I am wondering if another team in NBA history has ever won a playoff game starting 2+ rookie players.
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What is the most number of times two teams met in a season?
Inspired by this question, what is the record for the maximum number of times two teams have actually faced off in one season? Since league formats vary across countries and continents, I have ...
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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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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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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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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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Who was the youngest winner of Gagarin Cup?
Gagarin Cup is the name for KHL playoffs. (KHL is widely considered the second best ice hockey league in the world, after NHL.) In the last season, 20-years old Ilya Sorokin and 19 years old Ilya ...
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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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Is there a stat or resource that tracks series-wins in MLB?
Major League Baseball could obviously never have a team go undefeated (actually, I found out it did happen in 1869, so from now on let's just go with the live-ball era forward) because of the large ...
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What is the highest percentage of gold medals by nation for a speciality?
I think about men basketball where in 15/18 editions the gold medal was taken by the USA team.
Is this 83% (=15/18) the higher percentage of gold medal won by the same country for a single Olympic ...
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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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WR Line while swimming
Watching the Olympics I have found the swimming very interesting. I've noticed that while the swimmers are swimming the TV Channel (BBC) projects a line across the width of the pool saying WR (World ...
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Highest median score of a full innings in test cricket
Considering all the median scores of a full innings (All the 10 wickets fall), what is the highest among those, i.e, the greatest median run score from a full team of batsmen from a single innings? ...
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Highest runs scored by the lowest scoring batsman in a full innings in test cricket
Considering all the lowest individual scores scored during a full innings (All 10 wickets fall), what is the highest among those? i.e, the greatest number of runs scored by the lowest scoring batsman ...
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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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Soccer players with over 100 international goals (IFFHS definition)
Who are the soccer players with the most international goals? The international goal definition used is the one from IFFHS (international goals in national team + international goals in club) and not ...
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Who is the football player who won the most official international titles?
Who is the football player who won the most number of international titles?
"International" means FIFA/UEFA/CONMEBOL etc. level major club tournaments, like:
UEFA Champions league
UEFA Europa League
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Player who score 200 in t20 games?
Does anyone know the name of player who score 200 in single t20 game?
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Three two-run homers in the span of six batters
On June 2 2016 the SF Giants did this against the Atlanta Braves. The 5th innings for SF started as follows:
AARON BLAIR PITCHING FOR ATLANTA
Blanco walked. 0 0
Bumgarner homered to left center (...
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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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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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In a major tennis tournament match, what was the largest difference in points won and lost where the winner lost more points?
In a Major (a.k.a. "Grand Slam") tennis tournament, what is the largest difference in total points won versus total points lost in a match where the winner of the match won fewer total points than the ...
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What is the maximum number of 3 pointers made by Michael Jordan in a single game?
What is the maximum number of 3 pointers made by Michael Jordan in a single game?
Although it sounds simple, I couldn't find this stat in the internet.
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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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What is the greatest number of yellow cards a team has got without a red card?
In the Chelsea vs Spurs Premier League match on 2nd May 2016, Spurs received 9 yellow cards but without getting a red card. What's the greatest number of yellow cards a professional team has ever ...
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Have two generations of one family ever won a medal at the same Olympics?
Nino Salukvadze and her son Tsotne Machavariani have both qualified for Rio 2016 Olympic games.
Has it ever happened in the past that two generations of the same family have won a medal in the same ...
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Whose record did the Chicago Bulls team of 1995-96 break?
The Chicago Bulls broke the NBA record for most victories in a season during the 1995-96 season. The question is, whose record did they break?
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Does Vatican participate in any International sports?
Does Vatican participate or ever participated in any international sports as a country ?
If participated I would like to know the details of some recent events.
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What world records have been broken by an athlete with a disability?
I wonder which world records have been broken by an athlete with a disability, put aside sports where non-disable athletes do not compete. For example, the record furthest accurate distance – men’s ...
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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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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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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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Which nation has the most men's wins in a single Alpine Skiing World Cup season?
When looking at the men's winners in the 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup, there are 17 wins for Norwegian skiers. Is this already a record for most wins for a nation, or the skiers from another country ...
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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 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).
What is the record for the most match points ...
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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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How many times in EPL did a title deciding final game of the season take place between two title chasing teams?
Referring only to the Premier League era (since 1992), how many times did it occur that two title challengers faced each other in the last game of the season to decide the fate of the trophy (i.e. ...
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