Olympic record
Peak athletic achievement
An Olympic record is the best performance ever achieved in a particular event at the Olympic Games.
Each sport tracks its own records—fastest time, longest distance, highest score.
Olympic records differ from world records, which count performances at any sanctioned competition: She broke the Olympic record but fell short of the world record.
Setting an Olympic record requires competing at the Games themselves.
- gold medalAward for winning
- athleteSports competitor
- trackPath or monitored route
- sprintBrief maximum-speed effort
- fastestMost rapid of all
starting blocks · podium · world stage · stadium · champion · timing · finish line · breaking · historic · seconds · milliseconds · swimming · athletics · medal · competition · qualifying · heat · final
- OlympicsIOC, Paralympics, Paralympic, Paralympic Games, Winter Games
- olympic designationgold medal, silver medal, bronze medal, Paralympic, medalist
- race resultswin, winner, first place, second place, third place
- speed records100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 100 meter dash, water speed
- Sports Resultswin, championship, first place, second place, victory
- recordsGuinness, documents, album, death certificates, files