British runners in particular have long tried to cross the finish line in less than 4 minutes, records show, sometimes running in the nude or trying to win a bet ...

Twenty-four hours after breaking the men's mile world record, Josh Kerr reflects on his achievement with The Athletic ...

Josh Kerr won silver and bronze medals in the 1500m at the last two Olympics.

Seventeen-year-old Hiten Dharpure from Nagpur has earned his second Guinness World Record by creating the world’s smallest ...

Kerr announced his bid to break the world record months in advance, and pulled off the plan in London on Saturday.

The pantheon of mile world record-holders has a new member. When Josh Kerr stormed over the finish line at the London Stadium ...

Olympic 800m gold medalist Emmanuel Wanyonyi broke one of the longest-standing world records on the track, running the fastest 1000m in history. Wanyonyi clocked 2 minutes, 11.83 seconds at a Diamond ...

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.

As the world's de facto record adjudicator, Guinness World Records keeps tabs on all manner of weird and wonderful feats. Toyota's humanoid robot which happens to be really good at basketball is a ...