Who holds the record for furthest distance swam in open water and where did it take place?
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well, i'm only familiar with american swimming so i will give you that:\n\nthe longest distance swam period i don't know.  i would imagine someone at some point attempted to swim across an ocean.  depending on how far they got, that would most likely be the record, but as far as organized timed swims are concerned, there is an american record for a distance of 26 miles-385 yards\n\nchad fallin...13:10.28.00 and robin boughey...14:07.27.90
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The world record and the Olympic record in the long jump are two different things (as a world record does not need to be set during the Olympic games). The current world record is 8.95 meters (approximately 29-feet, 4 1/2 inches) set by Mike Powell of the USA in Tokyo in 1991. The Olympic record is 8.90 meters (approximately 29-feet, 2 1/2 inches) set by Bob Beamon of the USA during the 1968 Mexico City games.
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At the closest, about 400 million miles. \nAt the furthest, about 600 million miles.
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Jeff Larson\n\nhttp://www.chaffeybreeze.com/media/storage/paper257/news/2005/07/12/Sports/Fastest.Swimmer.In.The.Nation-961662.shtml?norewrite200606080604&sourcedomain=www.chaffeybreeze.com
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(m)\n\nAs of June 2000, the fastest running human is Michael Johnson, the American track and field star who on August 1, 1996 set the world record of running 200 meters in 19.32 seconds. Johnson, by doing this, won an Olympic title in Atlanta, Georgia and broke the longest standing field record of the time; Pietro Mennea's 1979 record of 19.72 seconds. Johnson's record can be calculated to equal 10.35 m/s or 37.267 km/h. Johnson's events also include the 400 meter run which he ran in 43.18 seconds ranking him number one in the world in 1999. This broke the 11-year old record of American Butch Reynolds (43.29s). In this category, Johnson was undefeated throughout his career with forty four consecutive victories. An interesting fact to know is that in the animal kingdom Michael Johnson would be considered relatively slow; the cheetah, one of the world's fastest land animals, can sustain a top speed of about 30 m/s or 100 km/h -- three times the speed Michael Johnson can achieve.
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Justin Gatlin (born February 10, 1982) is an American sprinter. He currently shares the human world record in the 100 m sprint (with Asafa Powell) with a time of 9.77 seconds.
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I don't know what the world record is but I know it's much longer than one minute. I think I've maxed out at 1:20 myself. My source says 12:47 for an Italian freediver but I don't know if that is the latest.
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On land, the longest mountain range is the Andes of South America which is 7564 km (4700 mi) in length.\n\nBut if including underwater mountains, mid-Atlantic ridge would be the longest, extending 64,374 km (40,000 mi) from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, around Africa, Asia, and Australia, and under the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of North America.\n\n(For the person that said the Himalayas, that would be the *highest* not the longest.)
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Even though he did not break the world record, I think what he did was awesome. How many people can say that they can 1st live underwater in a fish tank for 170 some odd hours straight--then (without resting, eating or anything)become chained and hold your breath and remove the chains at the same time. Plus staying underwater for over 7 minutes. That guy is amazing. He definitely didn't fail in his task, he just didn't get as far as he wanted to go.
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Nile, Africa is the longest river in the world, at 4,160 mi.
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The world record holder forthe 2000m single rowing (single scull) is Marcel Hacker (GER) at 6:36:33 set in Seville in 2002.  \n\nThe World Best Times recognised by FISA for Olympic events are those recorded on regatta courses which have held either World Championships, Olympic Games or World Cups since 1980 at a distance of 2000m.\n\nCouldn't find anything on 4000m though, sorry.  I've included some links to help though.\n\nMatt
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there's a 500m event?\nstrange, my boyfriend swims 400m, 800m and 1500m, but not 500m.\nwho knows - maybe you could swim it and set a new record in this new event
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according to the website below,\n\n"the deepest human dive was sponsored by the US Navy with Ct Don WALSH and Jacques PICCARD in the Batyscaph “TRIESTE” to 10,700m in 1960"\n\nalthough I recently read that their depth metre may have been off because it failed to take the greater density of saline water into account.
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The swimmer with the MOST Olympic medals is Jenny Thompson of the USA with 12.\n\nIn an incredible Olympic career beginning in 1992, Jenny has won eight golds, three silvers and a bronze. Until the recent Games in Athens, the record stood at eight medals, an achievement shared by Dawn Fraser (Australia), Kornelia Ender (GDR), and Shirley Babashoff (USA).\n\nOn the men's side, both Mark Spitz & (USA) Matt Biondi (USA) each won 11 medals in Olympic competition.
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Very difficult to break it down to one single event so, I'll give you my top 10 in order of peference:\n\n10.  Edwin Moses, who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record  four times.\n\n9. Javier Sotomayor, who is the only man to exceed 8 foot in the (8'-½ in,2.45 meters ) in the High Jump, when  he set the world record on July 23, 1993 in Salamanca, Spain.\n\n8. Carl Lewis, matching Jesse Owens mark of 4 gold medals in a single Olympiad, the '84 Los Angeles Games.\n\n7. Carl Lewis, matching Al Oerter's feat of winning 4 gold medals for the same event in 4 consecutive Olympiads, when he won the long jump in the '96 Atlanta Games, matching his efforts in '84, '88 and '92.\n\n6. Michael Johnson winning both the 200m and 400m races in a single Olympics, during the 1996 Atlanta Games.  He easily captured the 400m Olympic title with a time of 43.49 beating Roger Black of Great Britain by almost one second. At the 200m final, Johnson achieved a peak speed of over 40 km/h (25 mph), and finished the race in 19.32 shattering the world record by a third of a second.\n\n5.  Al Oerter became the first track and field athlete to win consecutive gold medals for the same event over the period of FOUR Olympiads. Oerter, won the Discus thow at the '56, '60, '64 & '68 Olmpics.\n\n4. Jim Thorpe's perfomance at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Along with the decathlon and pentathlon, Thorpe contested the long jump and high jump as well, but his first event scheduled was the pentathlon. Thorpe was the class of the field, winning four events. He placed only third in the javelin, an event he had never done before 1912. \n\nThe same day he won the pentathlon gold, Thorpe qualified for the high-jump final. In that final, he placed fourth, and took seventh place in the long jump. Thorpe's final event was the decathlon, where tough competition from local favorite Hugo Wieslander was expected. But Wieslander was no match for Thorpe either, finishing some 700 points behind. Thorpe placed in the top four of all ten events.\n\n3. Jessie Owens. But not for winning the 4 Olympic Gold Medals in the 36' Games, but for an extraordinary day that took place a year earlier. In a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935 at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Owns tied the record for the 100 yard dash, set world records in the long jump, 220 yard dash, and 220 yard low hurdles. With the 220 times bettering the records for 200 meter equivalents, Owns set or tied SIX World record in less thane ONE hour.\n\n2. On May 6, 1954 during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier;  with a time of 3 min 59.4. \n\n1. Bob Beamon's World record jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olymipic Games. Although Beamon was a favorite, his jump was completely unexpected.  From 1935 to 1968, the long jump world record had increased only 8.25" from 26' 8'-1/2 to 27' 4-3/4. With a single jump, Beamon added nearly 22" to the record in a single day.
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There is no official world record because the shortest distance measured is the 50.  The problem is that the coaches are measuring the times, so they can be way off compared to a computer doing it.  There's a big article here about Ben Johnson running the 40 in about 4.38.
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Just over 1/4 mile (1,320 feet).\n\nOn July 14 2003, Californian, Erin Hemmings tossed a Aerobie Pro Ring at Fort Funston, San Francisco hoping to win the $1,000.00 prize for breaking the record of 1,257 feet set by Scott Zimmerman in 1986.\n\nErin Hemmings became a $1,000.00 richer and the new holder of the world's longest thrown object record after his disc covered 1,333 feet, breaking the 1/4 mile barrier.\n\nHis throw stayed aloft for more than 30 seconds.