A record is a mark that has never been achieved by anyone other than the one who achieved it.
A record is the maximum or minimum result in any activity . Generally the term, which comes from the English record , is used as a synonym for brand to name the best result in a sport or competition.
For example: “Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter dash” , “The Catalan team dreams of breaking the record for consecutive victories” , “He is only twenty years old, but many specialists believe that he will manage to break the defense record of a world title.”
Different types of records
A world record is known as a mark that has never before been achieved by a human being or by a team. It should be noted that this is a relative assessment, since it refers only to historical records and brands recognized by some association or set of associations.
An Olympic record , on the other hand, is the best mark obtained in the Olympic Games . This means that a mark can simultaneously be an Olympic record and a world record, but also that a world record is not an Olympic record and vice versa.
In some cases the peculiarity occurs that the same athlete has both records, even though the marks do not coincide. Jamaican Usain Bolt achieved the Olympic record in the 100 meter dash in Beijing 2008 , with 9.69 seconds . A year later, he set the world record in Berlin with 9.58 seconds .
Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt holds several records.
Some curiosities
Record can also be used outside the field of sport: “The government announced a record surplus in the first half of the year,” “Unemployment rose to a record level on the European continent.”
It is interesting to mention that certain records are very curious:
- A group of Welsh scientists, for example, long ago found a clam that appears to have lived for around four centuries. It is found on the coast of Iceland and surpasses by three decades another clam that had held the record until now, and that lived in the same place.
- An American woman named Fran Capo , for her part, is capable of speaking an average of 600 words per minute, which made her the fastest speaking person in the world.
- In 1959 , an American man named Robert Foster went down in history after being able to hold his breath for almost 14 minutes.
- A bell tower located in Suurhusen , a town located in northern Germany , achieved a Guinness record thanks to having tilted more than the Tower of Pisa . It is a construction almost 30 meters high that was erected in the mid- 15th century . The angle of inclination that was recorded at the time of granting first place was 5.19 degrees, 1.22 above the Italian monument.
- A car named Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo , which has a modification of the Chevrolet V8 engine, four valves per cylinder and a power of 1046 horsepower at 6950 revolutions, is capable of reaching an average speed of 412 km/h and its price became the highest in the world for a car: 542 thousand euros .
- The networking of 700,000 Playstation 3 consoles achieved a Guinness record for having achieved the highest processing power to date on the entire planet. It was a project that sought to investigate the folds of a protein called FAH , led by Stanford University , United States . The network took advantage of the capacity of the machines when they were not being used, and the number of operations per second reached was one thousand trillion.
- A motorcycle was registered as the largest in the world by the Guinness Book , since it exceeds a normal car in dimensions , and can be compared to that of a cargo truck. Its creator is called Gregory Dunham and he equipped it with an engine capable of reaching a speed of 104 km/h .