Sentences with phrase «to set a world record»

The painting set the world record for the most expensive price paid at auction for a work of art by a living artist.

This attempt to set a world record requires technical expertise, courage and luck.

What does it take to set a world record marathon time?

It makes good drivers very fast; it makes great drivers set world records.

It's a plug - in electric, and may set a world record for efficiency.

Elaine beat U.S. girls in setting world records in both backstroke events.

After setting a world record of 15 feet 10 1/4 inches a week earlier 20 - year - old George Davies, a sophomore at Oklahoma State who uses a fiber - glass pole, could do no better than 14 feet 6 inches.

Photo of Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, which set the world record price for a living artist when it sold for $ 33.6 m in 2008.

«I have good memories of winning over 600m in Birmingham last summer and of course setting the world record at the London 2012 Olympics.

River cruising is the hottest segment of travel right now, and in a fitting feat for the world's leading river cruise line, Viking River Cruises today set a world record with the christening of 10 new Viking LongshipsTM.

World decathlon record - holder Ashton Eaton picked up from where he left off in the heptathlon, clocking 7.64 in the 60m hurdles for a championship best, bettering the 7.68 mark set by himself in Istanbul two years ago to go nine points ahead of his five - event tally when setting his world record in 2012.

In Swimming in the Sink, Lynne Cox, an open - water swimmer who set the world record for swimming across the English Channel at the age of 15, writes about how personal tragedy and a diagnosis of broken heart sydrome almost destroyed her life and her love of swimming.

Heitzenroeder helped design coils for the Princeton Large Torus and Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor facilities, both of which set world records for plasma temperature at the time.

Carmelita Jeter, Bianca Knight, Allyson Felix and Tianna Madison pose with the clock after setting the world record in the 4 x 100m Relay.

In other words, you're not going to be able to win an ironman while also setting world records in the bench press.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg recently set the world record for multicrystalline silicon at 22.3 %, besting its own previous performance.

Bentley have released a new special super car which is based on the Bentley Supersports Convertible which set the world record speed on ice with only minor adjustments to the engine.

Did I just set a world record for the number of time the word «sequin» appears in a sentence?!

In the summer of 2009, during the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt set a world record time of 9.58 seconds for the 100 - meter dash — but he did so with a slight wind at his back.

At age 40 than 50 than 60 when I started setting the world records knowing by then the «roid» guys would not be competing in power lifting.

Real Madrid set the world record transfer fee both in 2009 when they paid Man United # 80m for Cristiano Ronaldo and last summer when they spent # 85m on Tottenham winger Gareth Bale and having secured their coveted «Decima», their tenth European Cup / Champions League triumph, the Spanish capital side are keen to issue a real statement of intent this summer.

Perhaps the greatest player of all time, Diego Maradona set a world record transfer fee when he moved from Barcelona to Naples, joining Napoli in 1984.

In 2009, Usain Bolt set the world record in the 100 - meter dash, thanks in large part to a carb called glycogen.

In 1982, video game score - chaser Todd Rogers supposedly set a world record time of 5.51 seconds in the Atari 2600 racing game Dragster.

LAMA set world record prices for Sheila Hicks, a work on paper by Ken Price, and a painting by Jules Olitski from his late period, proving that geography is not a limitation for this boutique auction house, which continues to secure first - rate consignments.

About a year before the aforementioned Ferrari 250 GTO moved the record up to $ 38 million, this Mercedes - Benz racing car set a world record for the most expensive car sold at auction.

Greek runner Michail Seitis set a world record for his division with a time of 49.66 seconds in the men's 400 - meter final on Thursday.

MAURICE GREENE, Sprinter The Kansas City native and Kansas City Kansas Community College alum set the world record in the 100 meters (9.79 seconds) in 1999 and earned two gold medals at the 2000 Olympics, in the 100 and the 4x100 relay.

Dennis Johnson, a Jamaican who may soon set a world record in the 100 - yard dash, is the latest of a long string of distinguished runners whom persuasive — and sometimes hypnotic — Coach Bud Winter has attracted to California's San Jose State College

now spreading rumors man city set world record bid to land jack wilshere.

Last summer at ameet in Indianapolis he ran the 100 in 10.72 seconds, setting a world record inthe 45 - to - 49 age group.

At last summer's worldchampionships Ziegler won gold medals in the 1,500 and 800 freestyles, andHardy set a world record of 1:06.20 in the 100 breaststroke semifinals beforefinishing second in the final to Australia's Leisel Jones.

Franklin set the world record in a comfortable full body length win over Anastasia Zueva, as well as fellow American Elizabeth Beisel.

Australia set the world record for internationals by scoring 31 against samoa.

SWIMMING — SYLVIA GERASCH of East Germany set a world record of 2:28.20 in the 200 - meter breaststroke at a meet in Leningrad.

Tim won in the 1908 Olympics and Dan set the world record at 50 feet, 11 inches in 1911.

Flanagan, McGrath, McDonald and Ryan all made marks of over 38 feet in AAU championships and McGrath set the world record at 40 feet, 6 inches in 1911.

Two years after he was given his first Hacky Sack, Shults attended one of the early footbag tournaments, where he saw someone set a world record for consecutive kicks.

TRACK & FIELD — British schoolteacher BRENDAN FOSTER set a world record for the two - mile run with an 8:13.8 in London.

Son of an ex-lifeguard and swimming since he was 9, this 17 - year - old high schooler from Santa Clara, Calif. set a world record in the 200 - meter butterfly (2:06.4) and already had a pending mark in the 100 - meter butterfly.

Well, in case you didn't notice — and it looks that way — an American set a world record in the London Marathon on April 14.

Last September, in Berlin, El Guerrouj set a world record in the 2,000 meters — by an astounding three seconds — for which sponsors of the meet tastefully awarded him a kilo of gold.

In 2003 the Kenyan wasa pacer for countryman Paul Tergat when Tergat set the world record.

TRACK & FIELD - MAX MORINIERE, DANIEL SAN - GOUMA, JEAN - CHARLES TROUABAL and BRUNO MARIE ROSE of France set a world record in the men's 400 - meter relay with a time of 37.79 seconds at the European Track & Field Championships, in Split, Yugoslavia,.04 of a second faster than the previous mark set by the United States team at the 1984 Olympics.

It's right on Oxford Road and was purpose built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and has seen idols such as Ian Thorpe set world records in it!

# 10 Michael Johnson DALLAS Set world record in 200 meters, Olympic record in 400 at 1996 Games; four - time world 400 - meter champ.

Last year Kendra Harrison set a world record at this meeting and she is back, fresh from clocking a world - leading 12.28 in Hungary on Tuesday.

Zeljko Dimitrijevic set a world record of 29.96 m in the F51 club throw final for gold, Bulgaria's Ruzhdi Ruzhdi took gold in the F54 / 55 shot put with a 12.33 m world record throw and world champion Garrah Tnaiash won the F40 shot put with 10.76 m.