The altitude climbing record set by Hillary and Norgay can be equaled but will likely never be bettered (unless you bring a folding ladder.)
Not a tennis fan but did he never have 9 finals?
So people are including those unlikely to be broken as among the longest-held. Ok, Steven Redgrave’s five gold medal wins in one Olympic event, from five Olympiads.
That may be the record for a single game, but the record for consecutive perfect innings is actually 15.1, set by Yusmeiro Petit, then of the San Francisco Giants, in 2014. He was a relief pitcher, and accomplished the feat over 8 appearances.
Interestingly, Petit also came within one strike of pitching a perfect game in 2013 before giving up a single; he retired the next batter for a one-hit shutout.
Aladár Gerevich got six in six Olympiads.
The idea is, from his win at Wimbledon in 2005 to his win at the Australian Open in 2010, Federer made it to every Grand Slam final except one. And so he reached 10 consecutive finals, and then missed one, and then reached 8 consecutive finals.
The record would be for consecutive finals so the record isn’t fixed until the sequence is broken. At some point in that run he would have been on 9 but in the record books it would have an asterisk to note that it was ongoing but once he got his 10th the run of 9 would no longer appear.
Walter Johnson’s .433 batting average in 1925 for a pitcher (minium 100 PA).
Taffy Wright will probably be the only batting champion to not be a batting champion. He only had 282 PA, but played in 100 games, which was enough to qualify in 1938. The AL gave the championship to Jimmie Foxx, who hit a one point lower but in 685 PA. No one complained.
Hack Wilson’s record of 191 rbis in a season has lasted since 1930. Players like Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg got close but since World War II. the highest total is Manny Ramirez with 165 in 1999. Wilson was particularly productive after July 31, getting 87. For a long time it was believed Wilson had 190 rbis until research in 1999 found he wasn’t credited properly
With Chief Wilson’s 36 triples, the interesting thing is no one in the minors, even with some leagues having 190+ games, have beaten it. Things like doubles, hitting game streaks (once by DiMaggio himself) and home runs pre Bobby Bonds were surpassed in various minor leagues.
Besides things like 100 point game, Wilt Chamberlain averaged 50 points in one season (4,000 points) missing very little playing time and 55 rebounds in one game (he said he was most proud of that record as it was against the Boston Celtics) to go with a 22.9 game average for rebounds.
Most amount of disturbing arm dances by someone at an NBA game:
Similarly, Melky Cabrera in 2012 was another batting champion to not be a batting champion. https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Melky_Cabrera has a useful overview – Basically, MLB had no rules in place in 2012 for the consequences of using prohibited drugs while earning individual records. Melky finished the year with the highest-qualifying batting average, but MLB and the Players Association effectively pressured him to declare himself ineligible, which he did on September 21. Apparently unlike Taffy’s experience, there were complaints about the ex-post-facto-ness of Melky’s ineligibility, if not about his cheating and embarrassing MLB.
Due to the end of “pump enough juice into a player and see what happens” era, will Barry Bonds’ record be considered unassailable? The last several years, the HR leader has had high 30s/low 40s for the HR title (making Stanton’s 59 an outlier).
What he’s trying to say is that it’s a record that’s possible to beat with nothing other than extreme consistency in play.
Contrast this with say… Powell’s (and Beamon’s) long jump records- ISTR that they’re right up there at the limits of potential human performance- someone basically has to be an almost superhuman freak of nature, and THEN pull off a nearly perfect jump on top of it to even come close. Or say, running a marathon, where the ambient temperature has a large effect on the finishing time at the top levels of competition.
Hitting 88 doubles in a season is eminently doable by comparison.
Per wiki, to this day Frank Kugler “is the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Olympic Games.”
It’s been 114 years since 1904; is any athlete gunning for this one?
Seen that one before but in one of his events there were only three people competing so that takes the shine off his achievements somewhat. If you’d be ashamed to describe in full detail exactly how you won it then I think it barely counts.
Well, yes and no. That is, yes, as far as I can tell, in one of his events there were only three people competing; but no, in that, even if we leave that fourth medal aside, he still got three more medals in three not-every-participant-got-a-medal events — which, as it happened, were in three different sports.
Now, granted, you can of course still subtract a solid amount of shine even given that; but, as far as I can tell, it’s still technically the record.