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Melbourne resident Sruthy Saseendran recently achieved a Guinness World Record for Most airports identified in one minute using IATA codes.

Want to set a Guinness World Record? Just Google it

Memorising airport codes might seem like an odd hobby, but the unique skill earned Melbourne resident Sruthy Saseendran a place in the history books.

  • Thomas Mitchell

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More than 6000 people did the Haka to help NZ reclaim the record.

New Zealand wrests largest haka record back from France

Maori have been trying to reclaim their cultural legacy for 10 years.

  • Lucy Craymer
With coach Percy Cerutty in 1958.

Chasing greatness: The champion and the philosopher

It was one of the greatest partnerships in Australian sport. Percy Cerutty trained Herb Elliott with techniques that were tough, innovative and inspired by history’s great poets and thinkers.

  • Tony Wright
Geronimo Rottnest Skydive participated in a world record attempt for the most skydives in a single day for World Skydiving Day on July 13.

Rottnest Island perfect backdrop for global skydive world record attempt

About 50 tandem skydivers in Western Australia have taken part in the inaugural World Skydiving Day world record attempt.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Long-time prime minister Bob Hawke once held a record for beer drinking while he was at university at Oxford.

Seventy years on, Oxford pub pays tribute to Bob Hawke’s legendary skol

Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale.

  • Rob Harris
A feral fish caught in Blue Lake Park in Joondalup could be the world’s longest specimen ever captured.

Biologist reels in ‘world’s longest goldfish’ from suburban lake in Perth

The feral fish was more than half a metre long and five centimetres longer than the current Guinness world record holder caught 20 years ago.

  • Sarah Brookes
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Laura Enever’s world record wave.

The ‘diminutive’ Aussie who took on a monster wave – and set a world record

Laura Enever didn’t like competing on the pro tour. Instead, she started paddling into the biggest waves on the planet.

  • Christian Nicolussi
Japan’s Kenichi Horie waves on his sailing boat after his trans-Pacific voyage, at Osaka Bay, western Japan, Saturday, June 4, 2022. The 83-year-old Japanese adventurer returned home Saturday after successfully completing his solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific, becoming the oldest person to reach the milestone.

‘I’m tired’: At 83, Japanese man breaks solo sailing record

The adventurer repeated the world-record sailing feat that he first achieved 60 years ago.

  • Mari Yamaguchi
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Everybody Wanghong tonight!

And avoid being under the influence.

Footage from the yacht Lisa Blair sailed on solo around Antarctica in 2017.

Rolling in the deep freeze: Alone and barely afloat at the bottom of the world

It’s enough to make the blood run cold. Lisa Blair was the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica - and she’s about to repeat the treacherous journey that nearly killed her.

  • Cloe Read

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