world record
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quantified value of an event that is more extreme than that of all comparable events worldwide, often in sport
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Encyclopedic overview
A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book Guinness World Records and other world records organizations collates and publishes notable records of many.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “world record” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.