The Soviet gymnast, Larissa Latynina is the winner of the most Olympic medals in the world. Between the years 1956 and 1964, she had won 18 medals in all.
The highest score ever achieved in an international football match is 31 -0 by Australia against American Samoa in a World Cup qualifying match at New South Wales (Australia) on April, 2001.
Sachin Tendulkar (India) is a cricket legend with records of most centuries and runs than any other player in the world in both test and ODI matches.
The highest martial arts-kick measured is 2.94 m and the most karate kicks in one minute using only one leg is 128.
AK47 is an assault rifle designed by Mikhail T. Kalashnikov in 1947. Around 40 million rifles have been produced worldwide. This gun is capable of Semi or fully automatic fire, with a muzzle velocity of 710 m/sec, a 122 grain bullet and a cyclic rate of fire at 600 rounds per minute. It weighs 4.3 kg and the later model AKM weighs only 3.1 kg.
American actress, Katherine Hepburn, is the only star to have won 4 best actress Oscars – the most sought after award in the film industry. She won the first in 1933 and the last in 1981.
Yulia Nesterenko (25) from Belarus became the first non-American, since Moscow Olympics 1980, to win the women's 100 m sprint. She finished with 10.93 seconds at the Athens Olympics, 2004. But the world record set by the American, Florence Griffith Joyner, was only 10.49 seconds.
Andy Roddick (USA) served the fastest service in tennis at the speed of 246 KMPH.
To win a 'Gold Disc', a music album needs to sell 1,00,000 copies in UK and 5, 00, 000 in USA. The world's best selling music instrument is the harmonica.
