Korea's Lee breaks speedskating world record for world 500m title
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South Korea's Lee Kang-Seok set a world record of 34.25 seconds to win the 500m title here Friday at the World Speedskating Championships.
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Lagat, the World Indoor 3000m champion clocked 3:52.87 to break the all-time mile record of over the 160-yard banked oval to the roar of a crowd of 13,519. Lagat's mark eclipsed Irishman's Eamonn Coghlan's meet ...
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HELSINKI, Finland  -- Germany set a world record Thursday in the men's 4x50-meter medley relay at the European Short Course Swimming Championships.
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Tom Ridge set an all-age record of 1 minute 50.2 seconds in winning the $530,000 World Trotting Derby at the DuQuoin (Ill.) State Fair yesterday.
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Liu Xiang of China tied the 100-meter hurdles world record and set a new Olympic mark Friday, winning the gold medal in 12.91 seconds.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova won the first-ever Korea Open on Sunday. The top-seeded 17-year old Russian beat Poland&#39;s Marta Domachowska in straight sets -- 6-1, 6-1 -- in less than an hour.
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Athens - Sarah Ulmer gave New Zealand their first ever Olympic cycling gold medal and only their second of the Athens Games on Sunday, breaking her own world record for the women&#39;s 3-km individual pursuit in the process.
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Australia has set a new world record of 3 minutes, 56.342 seconds in winning its quarter-final of the men's team pursuit at the Athens Olympics.
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Roger Federer breaks Jimmy Connors' 30-year-old record to become the longest reigning world number one.
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INDIANAPOLIS: Australia, led by Lisbeth Lenton, mounted a fightback against arch rivals the United States by claiming three gold medals and a relay world record at the world short course championships on Saturday.
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The United States and Australia set  world records in the men's and women's 4x100 medley relay races  on Saturday, the final day of swimming competition at the  Athens 2004 Olympics.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Teenager Liu Chunhong of China set a world record in winning the women&#39;s 69kg weightlifting division on Thursday.
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Kenyan-born Saif Saaeed Shaheen - now representing Qatar - smashed the world 3,000 metres steeplechase record in Friday night&#39;s IAAF Golden League meeting in Brussels.
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South Korea&#39;s Grace Park hit a course record 10-under-par 62 to take the lead after the first round of the LPGA Samsung World Championship in Palm Desert, California.
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Yang Yang (A) from China and American Apolo Anton Ohno took 1,500-meter women and men&#39;s titles in a World Cup short-track speedskating USA stop held in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday.
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American Jennifer Rodriguez wins the women's World Sprint Speedskating Championship Sunday, becoming the first U.S. skater in nine years to win the event.
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Tyson Gay won the 100 meters in 9.88 seconds and Sanya Richards broke the 22-year-old American 400-meter record at the World Cup on Saturday.