With the political turmoil and the possibility of war caused by Benito Mussolini aligning Italy with Germany, in 1938 Federico Tesio sold Nearco to Martin H. Benson of Beech House Stud in Newmarket, England for £ 60, 000 ( a world-record for a sire in those days ).

Juventus paid 10 million pesos ( the equivalent of £ 91, 000 ) for the transfer, which was a world-record transfer fee for the time.

Van der Sar lost his place in the summer of 2001, after the Bianconeri purchased Italian international ' keeper Gianluigi Buffon from Parma for a reported fee of £ 32. 6 million, a world-record fee for a goalkeeper.

Frey was replacement for Gianluigi Buffon who was transfer to Juventus for a transfer fee of reported £ 32. 6 million which is currently the world-record goalkeeper's transfer fee.

In 1998, he broke the world-record transfer fee when Real Betis paid £ 21. 5 million for his services.

High-profile signings included foreign stars David Ginola and Faustino Asprilla, and British players Alan Shearer ( in a world-record £ 15 million deal ), Peter Beardsley, and striker Les Ferdinand.

The park is owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company and features a world-record 72 rides, including 15 roller coasters.

" With Walter Day hired as the " Circus Ringmaster ", Twin Galaxies supplied a squad of 15 world-record holders on Twin Galaxies ' high-score tables.

Based on world-record times for similar distances, cycling would take 54 % of race time, running 31 %, and swimming 15 %.

With responsibility for charting the world's longest coastline ( 243, 792 kilometres ) as well as 6. 55 million square kilometres of continental shelf and territorial waters ( 2nd largest in the world ) including extensive inland waterways such as the St. Lawrence Seaway, CHS uses relatively meagre financial resources to maintain a world-record inventory of over 1000 published charts, and as such, the organization was an early adopter of single-beam sonar, radio-navigation positioning systems, and computer processing and storage.

The show is approaching world-record attendance with over 10, 000 shows performed in front of 8. 5 million guests.

On 1 June 1970, the Company paid a then world-record price of HK $ 258 million at public auction for an important new central reclamation site.

In July 1999, Moratti sanctioned a then world-record € 48 million purchase of striker Christian Vieri and has since purchased numerous superstars, including Ronaldo, Maicon, Adriano, Hernán Crespo, Roberto Baggio, Iván Zamorano, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Luís Figo, Patrick Vieira, Samuel Eto ' o, and Wesley Sneijder.

* May 28 – United States Air Force Major Arthur W. Murray flies the Bell X-1A to a world-record altitude of 90, 440 feet ( 27, 570 meters ).

During his career, Smith set seven individual world records and also was a member of several world-record relay teams at San Jose State, where he was coached by Lloyd ( Bud ) Winter.

Levy is noted for his prolific career in composing music ; he has a total of 14 Gold-and Platinum-certified records and has composed theme tunes for more than 130 TV shows, which makes him the world-record holder in this regard.

At the time of his retirement, he had played a world-record 58 Test matches during a career spanning 1890 to 1912.

Julia Hopson with world-record 3. 5 meter long knitting needles

Later, Nikon again pioneered the use of titanium for vertical shutters, using a special honeycomb pattern on the blades to reduce their weight and achieve world-record speeds in 1982 of 1 / 4000 second for non-sync shooting, and 1 / 250 with x-sync.

Both ended their international careers after the 2007 Rugby World Cup as the two most-capped players in Wallabies history ( at that time ), with Gregan at a world-record 139 and Larkham at 102.

Alexis Manyrol of France wins with a world-record 201-minute flight in his Peyret tandem monoplane glider ; the best British performance is by Fred Raynham, who remains aloft for 113 minutes in his Handasyde glider.

She lost her European title to Italian jumper Sara Simeoni in 1978, when they both cleared the world-record height of 2. 01 m. However, Ackermann's early celebrations caused the rod to fall, leaving her with second place.

* A world-record speed of 330. 6 km / h ( 205. 2 mph ) set on the high-speed test track in Nardo, Italy ; Brabus added to its extensive collection of automotive records with a Maybach 57 powered by a 730-hp ( 720 hp SAE net ) / 537-kW Brabus SV12 S Biturbo engine ( s ).

On 13 July 2006, during England's first Test with Pakistan, Jones became the world-record holder for most Test innings played without having scored a duck ( 46 innings ).

The school's athletic teams are nicknamed the Flyers, honoring the fact that at the time of Chaminade's founding, Mineola and the surrounding communities of Long Island were part of what was then a " cradle of aviation ", with such pioneering aviators as Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, and Amelia Earhart making world-record flights from nearby Roosevelt Field.

After taking a 235-run first innings lead, England did not need to take a risk with their series lead with a bold declaration and set Australia a world-record 469 runs for victory.

Having opened the innings, he made his top Test score of 234 and helped to set a world-record 405 run fifth wicket partnership with Don Bradman, a record that still stands today.

In the following match against Essex, Brown combined with Bradman in a second-wicket partnership of 219 in 90 minutes, ending with 153 as Australia scored a world-record 721 runs in one day.

In a warm-up match at Hove against Sussex, he scored his career-best 284 in a then world-record partnership of 428 with Warwick Armstrong.

On 27 October 1991, Mark Drela set the world-record speed with the Decavitator of 18. 5 knots ( 9. 53 meters / second ) over a 100 meter race course on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts.

On 27 / 06 / 2009 a world-record was set there at with a 5-shot group measured center-to-center.

In 1956, Lock was famously the bowler who took " the other wicket " when Jim Laker achieved his world-record 19-90 at Old Trafford against Australia, and two years later had an extraordinary summer of success against an admittedly poor New Zealand side, finishing with 34 wickets at an average of a mere 7. 47.

His wicket-keeping steadily improved, with a very strong showing in the 2009 T20 World Cup, including a world-record performance of four stumpings in a single match against the Netherlands.

** 2000, member of world-record setting and NCAA Championships, 200 m medley relay, with teammates from University of California

At the National AAU swimming championship in April 1943, University of Michigan All-American swimmer Harry Holiday, Jr. finally went head-to-head with world-record holder Kiefer.

Buchanan has, along with former captain Ricky Ponting, led the side to numerous successes, including a world-record 16 consecutive Test match victories and 23 ODI victories in world cup tournaments, Buchanan only not involved in the first one, a 2001 and 2002-03 Ashes domination winning both series 4-1, the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa, the 2004 tour of India, in which Australia hadn't won a series there in thirty-six years, and more recently, following their shock Ashes defeat, a whitewash of the Super Series that saw the Aussies up against a World XI.

In the third Test of the same series he made 260, including a partnership of 446 with Garfield Sobers which was then the second-highest partnership in history and is the sixth highest — Sobers went on to make a then world-record 365 not out as the West Indies reached 790 for 3 declared.

Headcorn Parachute Club is the only skydiving club in Kent and is home to national champions and world-record holders.

The only woman to exceed 5 metres is Russian women's world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, who reached that height in 2005 and who has in total broken the women's world-record ( indoor and outdoor ), 27 times, culminating in her current world record of 5. 06 metres obtained in 2009 at Letzigrund in Zurich.

The 5, 000 m final started in less than two hours, and Nurmi faced a tough challenge from countryman Ville Ritola, who had already won the 3, 000 m steeplechase and the 10, 000 m. Ritola and Edvin Wide figured that Nurmi must be tired and tried to burn him off by running at world-record pace.

On the final lap, he sprinted clear of the others and finished nine seconds behind the world-record setting Loukola ; Nurmi's time also bettered the previous record.

Galbis says this paella was even larger than his earlier world-record paella made on 8 March 1992 which fed about 100, 000 people.

In Oslo, Norway, Remigino won in 10. 2 s to equal the 100-meters world-record, but an out of place wind-o-meter was relied upon to cancel ratification.

His eventual score of 334 was a world-record, exceeding the previous mark of 325 by Andy Sandham.

In 1967 Ryun ran a world record in the indoor half mile ( 1: 48. 3 ) and outdoors lowered his world-record time in the mile from 3: 51. 3 to 3: 51. 1, a record that stood for almost eight years.

Often, the world-record holder in this race is considered " the world's fastest man / woman.

* Fernando Mamede Portuguese athlete and former world-record holder.

One of his motorcycles, a 1937 Crocker, sold for a world-record price of $ 276, 500 at the same auction.

The Rolex Explorer II Reference 1655, is also now so-called Rolex Steve McQueen in the horology collectors world, but the Rolex Submariner Reference 5512 he was often photographed wearing in private moments sold for $ 234, 000 at auction on June 11, 2009, a world-record price for the reference.

In 1961 property millionaire Alfred E. Allnatt offered King's the Adoration of the Magi by Peter Paul Rubens, which he had purchased in 1959 for a world-record price.