Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland set a world record of 77.96m to become women's hammer champion.
In her 800m freestyle race Adlington set a world record time of eight minutes 18.06 seconds.
And an attempt will be made to set a world record for the largest ever sit-down lunch.
But if one of those 9.7 billion set a world record for size, the world never found out.
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Last November Scott Owens of Gilbert, Ariz. set a world record (Extreme class) of 179.6 decibels inside his Ford F-250.
Together, they convincingly set a world record of 40.82, just ahead of the second-place Jamaicans, who posted a 41.41 time.
Radcliffe is attempting to win for the fourth time on the London course where she set the world record in 2003.
He also set a world record in the semifinals that has stayed on the record books in the intervening four years.
He set a world record in that race and in another race, prompting people to say of course, that lightning struck twice.
In 1999, he set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mr Godwin went on to win more than 200 time trials and was cycling an average of 200 miles a day when he set the world record.
The Cornell Ranger, a walking robot developed by the Biorobotics and Locomotion Lab at Cornell, has set a world record by walking 40.5 miles without a recharge.
"This match will always remain a memorable one because of the victory and also because Sachin (Tendulkar) set a world record of 35 Test centuries here, " he added.
Meanwhile, a team of Yamaha motorcycle designers will attempt to set a world record of their own when they fly their pedal-powered airplane over 75 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
Meanwhile, Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the women's 500m time trial in a race she might well have missed had it not been for an injury to her older sister.
Split by linguistic differences between a Flemish-speaking north and a French-speaking south, voters in Belgium set a world record this year, by being unable to agree on a formal government since holding elections last June.
Australia were set a world record 546 to win in their four innings after England declared on 373-9 in their second innings but gave themselves hope after reaching 80-0 without loss at stumps on day three.
It would be a world record set indoors, but not a world indoor record.
The USA team tied the previous world record of 37.o4, but the Jamaican team set a new world record of 36.84.
It set a new world record price for a work by a living artist.
And Londoner Angus MacFadyen set a Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon on crutches.
He has run a 2:04:45 and has his sights set on the world record of 2:03:38.
The latter had set a new world record in the dead lift: eleven hundred and seventeen pounds.
Three years ago Bolt set the 100m world record after running 9.58 secs at the World Championships.
The Arctic Row team aims to set a Guinness world record and raise awareness of climate change.
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They won all three of their events and set a new world record at the Grand Prix Final.
Williamson was second in the women's S3 50m freestyle as Mexico's Patricia Valle set a new world record.
Swimmer Josef Craig from Jarrow, South Tyneside, set a new world record in the S7 400m freestyle final.
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