Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died.

The Big Apple is home to an eye-popping 436 Guinness World Record holders, nearly 8% of all the risk-takers in the country ...

Belgian ultra runner Hilde Dosogne feels she has done all it takes to become the first woman to run a marathon every single ...

A staggering 23 world records were broken in Texas last year, from Houston native Beyoncé to the oldest living horse residing in Austin.

There were a staggering 30 World Records set at Short Course Champs, and Gretchen Walsh was solely responsible for 11 of them ...

On Christmas Eve, a surfer from Santa Cruz rode a wave at Mavericks that witnesses say was over 100 feet tall, which would set a world record. But how do you reliably measure a wave?

American surfer Alessandro Slebir is believed to have conquered the biggest wave of all time, successfully riding an ...

Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet smashed the women's 5K world record with a time of 13 minutes, 54 seconds at the ...

Regan Smith, 100 backstroke: Smith clocked a 54.02 to lead off the women’s medley relay to set the world record and sweep record performances in all three backstroke events. It also led the U.S ...

At a year-end press conference on Tuesday, the Central Weather Administration revealed that Taiwan's average annual ...