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unusual facts about Olympic record



Bo Roberson

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.

Commonwealth Games records

As the Commonwealth Games only accepts athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, the records are not considered as prestigious as World records or Olympic records.


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1952 in Luxembourg

26 July – At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Josy Barthel wins the men's 1,500m in a new Olympic record time: to date, the only time an athlete has won a gold medal for Luxembourg at the Olympics.

Anne Henning

During her 500 m race against Sylvia Burka at those Olympics, Henning was obstructed at the crossing by Burka, but she still set the fastest time and a new Olympic record (43.70).

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

At first Herman Brix set a new Olympic record in the first round of the qualification with 15.75 metres.

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Carlos Lopes of Portugal won in 2:09:21 which set the Olympic record for 24 years.

Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

Russia's Sergey Kirdyapkin won the gold medal in an Olympic record-breaking time.

Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's track time trial

Anna Meares's time of 33.952 in the event set a new world record, bettering Jiang Yonghua's world record and Félicia Ballanger's Olympic record.

Gutterson Fieldhouse

He set an Olympic record with a 7.60 meter long jump, beating, among others, the great Jim Thorpe.

Jiang Yonghua

On 20 August 2004, she also broke the Olympic record at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, setting a time of 34.112 seconds, but was beaten by Australia's Anna Meares a few minutes later, with new Olympic and world record time of 33.952 seconds.

John Konrads

Although George Breen of the United States had attacked early, Konrads stuck to his raceplan and overhauled him to win in an Olympic record time of 17 m 19.6s, with Rose second.

Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle, prone

Zoltán Soós-Hradetzky set the best performance in the shoot-off with 296 rings, nevertheless the Olympic record was only credited to Bertil Rönnmark for his 294 rings.

Shooting at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre rifle, prone

Willy Røgeberg won the contest with the maximum of 300 and set a new Olympic record.

Shooting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre running target

Gennadi Avramenko and Tor Heiestad established a new Olympic record of 591 points, and Heiestad won the final, where Avramenko was also surpassed by Huang Shiping.

Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's double trap

Home shooter Russell Mark set a new Olympic record in the qualification round and was close to defending his inaugural double trap title from Atlanta, but lost the gold medal shoot-off to Richard Faulds.

Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's double trap

Pia Hansen raised Rhode's Olympic record by seven hits, and was only one hit from Deborah Gelisio's World records in both the qualification and final rounds.

Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Adolph Kiefer set a new Olympic record in the first heat with 1:06.9 minutes.

United Arab Emirates at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Al Maktoum shot three rounds of 48 in qualifying to beat Russell Mark's Olympic record of 143 set in Sydney, and took a six-point lead into the final, where he again shot the best round and equaled another Olympic record, this time Mark's from Atlanta.

Wang Yifu

In 2000, both Wang and Franck Dumoulin (France) scored 590 points and tied for a new Olympic record.

Ymer Pampuri

At the age of 27, the 17 Nentori weightlifter broke the Olympic record established by Yoshinobu Miyake in the clean and press style by lifting 127,5 kg.