She finished first in two, the javelin throw and the eighty-metre hurdles (a world record), and tied for first in the high jump (another world record).
Crocker, who beat Phelps to win the world title in Barcelona and took the world record from him at the same time, wanted to take charge from the start and went out fast down the first length, turning inside world record pace at the 50 in 23.59, more than half a second clear of the field.
Rudisha ran one minute 40.91 seconds to break his own world record, the first in the track and field events at the Games.
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Not the world record, but the first bass of over 20 pounds since Bob Crupi's almost exactly a decade earlier.
"This was my first real attempt to break the world record, I knew I was good, I had trained hard, " added Rudisha, whose father Daniel won silver for Kenya in the 4x400m at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
In addition to winning multiple swimming marathons, she was one of the first women to encircle the island of Manhattan, and she holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
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Four days on he claimed the 200m title in a world-record time of 19.32 - making him the first man to do the 200m-400m Olympic double.
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However, this is the first time ever that Mexico has broken a Guinness World Record with a technology related development.
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It was their third loss in four games after breezing through their first six at the World Cup with a 100% record.
For the first time since 1982, overall world energy demand fell. (The drop in natural gas use set a record.) In China, however, consumption is way up.
The first U.S. medal Saturday came when the women's 4x100-meter medley relay team broke the world record en route to easily winning gold.
With 8 million sold in its first 60 days, it set a Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling consumer electronics device.
In his first year he was already running the 100m quicker than the existing Paralympic world record, and in 2004 he came to prominence by winning gold at the Athens Paralympics in a new best time.
Samoa's highlight came with a first-half try from Gavin Williams and the appearance in a record fifth World Cup for Brian Lima, as a replacement.
The city's financial and administrative systems relied on the world's first known system of writing, cuneiform, which was used to record transactions, issue receipts and compile inventories.
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So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.
And in Germany, solar producers have set a new world record, pumping an astounding 14.7 TWh of electricity into the grid during the first six months of 2012 -- 4.5 percent of the country's total power production during that period.
In October 2010, six months after returning to golf with such poor form that he failed to win a single event in a season for the first time since turning professional, Woods lost his world best crown to Englishman Lee Westwood -- ending a record run of 281 consecutive weeks at the top (which started in June 2005).
First, an intense six minute display across the Palm and at the Burj Khalifa that hopes to seal the world record.
He went on to set a new world record in the 200-meter event but later suffered a shock defeat in the final, his first competitive loss over the distance in nine years.
The chairman of the ODA John Armitt said the velodrome would be a "world-class cycling venue with a record-breaking track for events in 2012 and the legacy of first-class facilities to help create the next generation of Olympic champions".
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