World Record Committee / 24 Aug 2026

 MOST CONSECUTIVE DAYS TO RUN A MARATHON DISTANCE - MALE CHINESE RUNNER COMPLETES A MARATHON DISTANCE FOR 372 CONSECUTIVE DAYS Running a single marathon is one of endurance sport's most demandi...

World Record Committee / 24 Aug 2026

 LONGEST KITE FLIGHT BY AN INDIVIDUAL AUSTRALIAN KITE FLYER KEEPS A KITE AIRBORNE FOR MORE THAN 26 HOURS What began as a simple passion for kite flying became an extraordinary endurance challen...

World Record Committee / 23 Aug 2026

 LARGEST ATTENDANCE AT A DATE FESTIVAL 93,050 PEOPLE GATHER FOR AL AHSA DATE FESTIVAL IN SAUDI ARABIA A remarkable 93,050 people attended the Al Ahsa Date Festival in Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, est...

World Record Committee / 23 Aug 2026

 FASTEST KNOWN STAR IN THE MILKY WAY A Star Racing Around the Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole at 25,000 km/s Astronomers have identified the fastest known star in the Milky Way, an extraordi...

World Record Committee / 19 Aug 2026

 OLDEST KNOWN GIANT ROCK SCALLOP BEAD An 8,500-Year-Old Ornament Rewrites the History of California’s Ancient Trade Archaeologists have identified a giant rock scallop shell bead dating to ap...

World Record Committee / 18 Aug 2026

MOST HANDMADE WOOD-CARVED SCULPTURES BY AN INDIVIDUAL  250 SCULPTURES — A PERSONAL JOURNEY TRANSFORMING WOOD INTO ART An extraordinary collection of 250 handmade wood-carved sculptures has be...

World Record Committee / 18 Aug 2026

 THE EARLIEST WRITTEN FRAGMENT OF HOMER’S ODYSSEY EVER DISCOVERED A 2,300-YEAR-OLD PAPYRUS PRESERVES AN EARLY VERSION OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST EPICS  A small papyrus fragment dat...

World Record Committee / 18 Aug 2026

15,000 BIRD-SHAPED NATURAL STONE CRAFTWORKS A Remarkable World of Birds Created from Natural Stone South Korean stone craft artist Woo Kwang Je has achieved an officially recognized record f...

World Record Committee / 17 Aug 2026

 THE HIGHEST-RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUN’S VISIBLE SURFACE The Solar Photosphere Revealed in Unprecedented Detail Humanity has obtained its most detailed view yet of the visible surfac...

World Record Committee / 17 Aug 2026

 LARGEST ANCIENT DAM EVER DISCOVERED IN ISRAEL A 2,800-YEAR-OLD ENGINEERING MONUMENT REVEALED IN JERUSALEM Archaeologists investigating the ancient Pool of Siloam area in Jerusalem have dated a...

World Record Committee / 17 Aug 2026

 THE MOST ANCIENT QUASAR EVER OBSERVED A Beacon from When the Universe Was Only 5% of Its Current Age Astronomers using the Euclid space telescope have discovered some of the most ancient quasa...

World Record Committee / 12 Aug 2026

 432 Ancient Earthworks Revealed Beneath the Amazon - A Hidden Civilization Comes Into ViewFor centuries, the dense Amazon rainforest concealed evidence of a human landscape far more extensive th...