Cristiano, Rodnina, and other amazing people. Guinness Book of World Record

Recently, the living legend of soccer Cristiano Ronaldo entered the Guinness Book of Records, scoring the most goals in history - 111. Of course, the brilliant Portuguese is not the first athlete who has found a place in the collection of unique achievements. Who else can be found in this book?

For example, the American Johnny Salo, who back in 1929 surprised the whole planet. In 79 days, starting on March 31 and finishing on June 17, he ran 5,898 kilometers. If measured across Russia, this is the approximate distance from the Black Sea coast of Krasnodar Krai to Lake Baikal! Salo's average speed was 11 kilometers per hour, a very high pace. Not surprisingly, no one else has been able to do it so far.

Japanese Hidekichi Miyazaki ran only 100 meters in 2015 with a time of 42.22 seconds. "You call it a record? Even children, barely learning to walk, run faster!" - you'll say. But your skepticism will be gone when you learn that Miyazaki was 105 years old at the time!

Egyptian Ahmed Gamal Gabr has become the deepest diver in the world, diving 332 meters into the Red Sea. It took more than four years to prepare for the record: the diver trained, formed a whole staff of assistants and doctors. The particular danger was not the dive, but the ascent: if Gabr rose back up too quickly, it could have led to his death because of the pressure difference.

There are our record-breakers among them. For example, the legendary figure skater Irina Rodnina, because she is the only athlete in the world who has not lost a single tournament during her entire career: she won three golds at the Winter Olympics, ten at the World Championships, and eleven at the European Championships. And that's not counting Soviet-Union competitions.

And two more of our compatriots Nikolai Petshak and Natalia Usacheva from Krasnoyarsk turned out to be unique "walruses". A dip in water whose temperature tends towards zero is already a feat - and the Krasnoyarsk extreme athletes managed to set a world record in distance swimming, having overcome 134 kilometers across the Bering Strait in 2013. Petshak and Usacheva, who by that time already had experience crossing the Ob River, swam for five days, changing each other every ten minutes.

Three times - in 1976, 1987 and 1998 - the Soviet skydiver Valentina Zakoretskaya entered the collection of unique achievements. She made more than 11,500 jumps, with the last record she set at age 52. It happened that Zakoretskaya jumped twenty times per training session. The main parachute failed her fifty times, but the reserve parachute saved her, and her only injury during her long career was a torn ligament.

The Guinness Book of World Records includes not only people, but also stadiums. For example, the largest arena in the world is the May Day Stadium in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Its stands can hold 115,000 people at a time. The nearest pursuer, Australia's Melbourne Cricket Ground, is 14,000 behind, and Spain's Camp Nou is 15,000 behind.