Earlier this year, backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown got close to her own 100m backstroke world record at the 2024 NSW State Championships. Clocking in at 57.57 seconds, she was just shy of her world best 57.33 which she swam in 2023.
The Swedish pole vault sensation has broken the world record eight times, his most recent being a 6.24m jump at the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Xiamen.
In April, 18-year-old Watson broke the world record not just once, but twice within the span of an hour. In his first run, he flew up the 15-metre (49-foot) wall in just 4.85 seconds, then did it in 4.79 seconds in his second run.
The women’s 200m has not been broken since 1988 when track and field legend Flo-Jo (Florence Griffith Joyner) ran 21.34 seconds. However, at the World Athletics Championships 2023, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson came dangerously close, crossing the finish line at 21.41 seconds, the second-fastest time ever in the women's 200m.
At the 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup in Thailand, USA Weightlifting’s Hampton Morris made history by breaking the senior weightlifting world record at 61 kgs with a clean and jerk lift of 176 kilograms (388 pounds).