The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history. BBC Sport takes a look at the records already broken, or set to be.

I was like, this could potentially be a world record,” Aries Merritt said. Merritt, an assistant coach for Texas State, was in the crowd to watch his pupil, Ja’Shaun Lloyd, run in the previous heat. He stuck around for Tharp’s race,

It may not be on the same level as a U.S. win over Australia’s national men’s soccer team—created in 1922. But Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID) broke a Guinness World Record on June 18 when 830 people simultaneously ate dim sum on a closed stretch of South King Street, beating a mark of 764 set in Sydney, Australia, in 2019.

A Texas teen is strutting into the Guinness World Records as both the woman and the teenager with the world’s longest legs. Maci Currin is 17 years old and stands at 6 feet, 10 inches. In fact, her legs make up 60 percent of her total height, according to Guinness.

Food stunts grab attention, bring people together, and often lead to jaw-dropping world records. Over the years, chefs, food enthusiasts, and organizations have pushed the boundaries of creativity and scale,

Ready, set, go break a record. As elite athletes compete for top accolades in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, at least a few world records will undoubtedly fall. But some of the Olympics’ speediest events — the 100-meter dash and the 50-meter ...

As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse. It grieved me to eventually learn that he was a fiction ...

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships, or any kind of continental or global meeting.

Rakul Preet Singh trained with Himalayan Siddhaa Akshar as Akshar Yoga Kendraa, under his guidance, achieved 21 Guinness World Records on Yoga Day.