Featured Records

PETAH TIKVA, 10 January 2026 (Atlas) — There are brief intervals of time that expose the truth of the human body. Thirty seconds is one of them. It is long enough for fatigue to announce itself, yet short enough that illusion cannot survive. On December 22, 2025, in Petah Tikva, Ariel Eizenthal entered such an interval. Parallel bars are indifferent structures. They do not respond to effort, nor do they acknowledge intent. They exist only to resist. Each descent demands subm

KIEV, 21 October 2025 (Atlas)   — There are moments when human movement ceases to be sport and becomes something closer to ritual. Not celebration, not entertainment—but a quiet confrontation between discipline and chaos. In Kiev , on October 21, 2025 , Alexey Chugaev stepped into such a moment. Before him: silence, space, and three lengths of wood bound by chain. The triple nunchaku is not an instrument that forgives hesitation. It multiplies error. It punishes distraction.

SAN ANTONIO, 14 December 2025 (Atlas)   — In a small room in Texas, the world briefly remembered how wisdom is meant to pass from one generation to the next. Not by command. Not by urgency. But quietly, as water finds its way downhill. A young girl stood before a series of images. She was not hurried. She was not coaxed. Around her, the adults understood something essential: haste makes waste . They did not interfere. They did not rush the moment. They allowed it to unfold at

DUBAI, 5 December 2025 (Atlas) — In the electric quiet of a Dubai evening, as the world carried on unaware, a man sat before the cold glow of his computer and began a task that would seem, to most, impossible. He was not searching for spectacle, nor for the hollow applause of digital crowds. He was pursuing something stranger, more elemental — the creation of fifty-four websites, one for each year of the United Arab Emirates’ national story, forged in the narrow crucible of

BAGHDAD, 8 December 2025 (Atlas) — There are regions of the world where human endurance is measured not in miles crossed, mountains climbed, nor oceans survived, but in something more abstract—an unrelenting confrontation with the infinite machinery of modern learning. In Baghdad, Iraq , a city where ancient civilizations once mapped the stars and measured the mysteries of the universe, Mohammed Falah Hassan Al-Dhafiri  has undertaken a different kind of odyssey. Between 6 A

ST. THOMAS, US Virgin Islands, 29 November 2025 (Atlas) — The LSU Tigers carved a feat that feels almost mythic. On a small island court in St. Thomas, untouched by the grand arenas of the mainland, they summoned an eighth consecutive storm of points—an avalanche of 112, while surrendering only 35 to Washington State. To witness this LSU team is to observe a force that has slipped the bonds of normal sport. Their scoring is not merely prolific; it is merciless, cascading wit

GAINESVILLE, 6 November 2025 (Atlas)   — In the fluorescent hush of an American gymnasium, beneath banners that celebrate victories already consigned to dust, a young man steps across the painted boundary and becomes a measurement against the sky. The crowd has paid to see points, spectacle, the commerce of triumph — but they rise instead to greet a phenomenon of human architecture, a question posed to gravity itself. Olivier Rioux , listed at seven feet nine inches, enters a

KYIV, 2 November 2025 (Atlas) — From a country where headlines too often tell of conflict, a quieter story emerges — not of destruction, but of creation. It comes from the mind of a thirteen-year-old boy who has chosen to tell stories through light, lens, and motion. His name is Alexey Chugaev, and his short film Agent 7–13: The Start marks a rare moment in cinema: the ascension of a child into the discipline of authorship. At an age when most still consume stories, Alexey

GREENVILLE , 27 October 2025 (Atlas) --- In the thin light of early morning, a motorcycle engine turned over like a heartbeat against the hush of an entire continent. For eleven days and nearly thirteen thousand miles, Wendy Crockett rode through the geometry of distance itself — the deserts of Arizona, the Appalachian spine, the endless gray interstates where thought gives way to instinct. The Iron Butt Rally is no race; it is a pilgrimage of endurance. Riders chase points

ISTANBUL, 22 October 2025 (Atlas) --- In the restless pulse of Istanbul, a young man moves against time itself. Seventeen-year-old Abdullah Gül has done what few have the endurance — or the obsession — to attempt. In just 30 seconds, his body struck the ground 98 times in perfect rhythm — a storm of motion, breath, and defiance. He has filmed himself over 1,000 times, documenting every rep, every imperfection, every small rebellion against fatigue. By day he serves tables as

ARVADA, 23 October, 2025 (Atlas) --- In the pale hum of Three Eyed Studios  in Broomfield, Colorado , a man named Darren Arellano  set out to challenge the boundaries of body and will. For seventy-two hours , he lived within the drone of the tattoo machine — a sound that devours sleep, time, and mercy. Of those seventy-two hours, 67 hours and 45 minutes  were spent tattooing — relentless, focused, unbroken — with only 4 hours and 15 minutes  of rest allowed by rule and by th

NEW YORK, 23 October 2025 (Atlas) — It began on October 3, 1956 , at Yankee Stadium  — the Bronx trembling with October noise beneath the smoke of a thousand cigars. Hank Bauer , square-jawed veteran of the Pacific War, stepped to the plate against the Brooklyn Dodgers . The first pitch cracked through the night air, and with one swing he began a conversation that would last seventeen games  and produce twenty-four hits . While others were anointed as legends, Bauer worked in

BERELLAN, 17 October 2025 (Atlas) --- In the heart of the Riverina, under a pale Australian sun that bleaches both sky and spirit, sixty-two heavy horses were harnessed to a single waggon. Not wagon —but waggon , spelled as the pioneers once did, with a double consonant that clings to the age of timber, rope, and toil. The old spelling survives among those who refuse to let the dust of modernity erase the dignity of their labour. At the Good Old Days Festival  in Barellan, N

Record Holder Name: Minnesota Throwdown Demolition Derby (organized by Mike Tix) FARMINGTON, 4 October 2025 (Atlas) --- In the pale dust of the Dakota County Fairgrounds, 161 cars collided in a single, unrelenting ballet of destruction. This spectacle shattered the previous world record of 125, once held in Canada. It was called the Minnesota Throwdown , and like so many great American inventions, it was equal parts triumph and absurdity. Organizer Mike Tix , trembling with

Update (3 November 2025): On November 2, 2025, Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little connected on a 68-yard field goal during an NFL game against the Las Vegas Raiders, as reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter. While this latest kick set an official NFL in-game record, it does not surpass his previously certified 70-yard preseason field goal verified by Atlas World Records earlier this year. The 68-yard make further reinforces Little’s position as one of the most powerful legs in

RAVENSTHORPE, 7 September 2025 (Atlas) --- Yummylicious Candy Shack (Belinda & Darrin McHarg) — In the harsh, unforgiving expanse of Western Australia's Golden Outback, where the earth yields its riches and then retreats, leaving ghost towns in its wake, a different kind of monument has risen. Ravensthorpe: a town of ore and ordeal, a settlement hewn from the old appetites of gold, copper, and nickel. The town’s heartbeat has long been set by the metronome of commodities: f

LAKE HAVASU, 27 July 2025 (Atlas) — Beneath the mirrored calm of the Arizona desert, an ancient shape moved through the green depths of Lake Havasu — a redear sunfish swollen to myth, armored in copper light, and born from silence. On May 4, 2021, Thomas M. Farchione , an angler from Waterford, Wisconsin, cast into those waters and pulled from them something that should not have been possible: a 2.83-kilogram (6-pound, 4-ounce)  redear sunfish, measuring roughly 17 inches in