What's the biggest accomplishment ever by an athlete in a single event?

[Maga_1]

(Idea from a twitter question in the Magic's game).

For you what was the best or most outstanding feat that was ever done in the sports history? Remember, single event.

It's not something like all the medals collected by Phelps in the Olympics or some season record by a player.

[RagaZ]

Geoff Hurst, 1966 World Cup Final.

[Jailblazers7]

Whoever holds the WR for fastest iron man.

[christian1923]

Kobe 81

[ace23]

Kobe 81
Was going to post this literally word for word. Ha

[oarabbus]

Hicham El Guerrouj 3:43.13 for 1 mile (or 3:26.00 for 1500m, which is actually better) is the most impressive athletic accomplishment. Usain Bolt's 19.19 200m dash is very close... but El Guerrouj's mile/1500 is just absolutely disgusting.

****ing nasty.

[Trentknicks]

Wilt Chamberlain tossing a mountain lion (regardless of era) whilst being a basketball player on a marathon across the country.

[Maga_1]

Hicham El Guerrouj 3:43.13 for 1 mile (or 3:26.00 for 1500m, which is actually better) is the most impressive athletic accomplishment. Usain Bolt's 19.19 200m dash is very close... but El Guerrouj's mile/1500 is just absolutely disgusting.

****ing nasty.

That's funny, i guess one of my most vivid memories in track and field is El Guerrouj, he always beat one of the few portuguese trying to win a medal in the 1500m. Nice one man :applause:

[Maga_1]

Geoff Hurst, 1966 World Cup Final.

Enlight me sir, i know football but not the real history. My english data only knows people like Bobby Charlton, talking about history :lol

[miller-time]

Kobe 81

Against a team that had the 2nd worst defensive rating and didn't even make the playoffs. Playing for a team that had absolutely no other decent scorer - only two other players barely made it into double figures. It was essentially a perfect storm for a player like that to just shoot to their hearts content.

[oarabbus]

That's funny, i guess one of my most vivid memories in track and field is El Guerrouj, he always beat one of the few portuguese trying to win a medal in the 1500m. Nice one man :applause:

:cheers:

I used to be really big into Track & Field and the guy is just amazing. I've always loved this pic after he won gold in the 1500m and 5000m (according to Wiki, only happened once before in 1924 until he did it, and never since)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40012000/jpg/_40012484_win.jpg

[Maga_1]

:cheers:

I used to be really big into Track & Field and the guy is just amazing. I've always loved this pic after he won gold in the 1500m and 5000m (according to Wiki, only happened once before in 1924 until he did it, and never since)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40012000/jpg/_40012484_win.jpg

I'm in the same position as you, it's a sport that i try to follow but it's kinda hard because of the disparity of events.
He was always a class act and a terrific athlete, his finishing sprints were a must.

[Maga_1]

If it's so easy, how come no else has come close? Robinson is the closest and he's a C. Name all the guards touching this.

It's an amazing accomplishment, but i still not think it's worthy to be mentioned at one of the most remarkable accomplishments. If you say in the history of basketball? Now that's different, but in the history of all sports? Not that much.

[Akrazotile]

Kobes 6-24 in a finals game 7 is actually even more impressive tbh, because thats really hard to do assuming youre actually trying to play well.

[Jackass18]

Probably when Al Bundy scored 4 TDs in a single game for Polk High

[Done_And_Done]

Sitler's 9 points in one hockey game record is one many believe will never be broken. It's definitely up there if we're talking about one offs.

[Just2McFly]

Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics
Jack Johnson becoming a heavyweight champion

Those two have way more historical significance than anything mentioned so far.

[DonD13]

Ali, The Rumble in the Jungle

[christian1923]

Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in one inning. I don't think that'll ever happen again lol

[RagaZ]

Too much America in this Thread.

[mr.big35]

chamberlain 100 point game

[Crystallas]

Probably when Al Bundy scored 4 TDs in a single game for Polk High


This, thread.

[Akrazotile]

Too much America in this Thread.


Never enough 'Merica.

[PistonsFan#21]

Why do people care if you can run fast

same reason people care if you can jump high, put a ball through a hoop or kick a ball into a net

[Done_And_Done]

Probably when Al Bundy scored 4 TDs in a single game for Polk High

GOAT!

http://media.screened.com/uploads/1/12160/427618-albundy.jpg

[tmacattack33]

Usain Bolt's 100 meter world record

[oarabbus]

Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics
Jack Johnson becoming a heavyweight champion

Those two have way more historical significance than anything mentioned so far.


It's not explicitly stated but the OP is going for biggest/most impressive athletic accomplishment. Not historical achievement.

If you are looking at the actual athletic feats themselves, neither Owens or Johnson are close to someone like Usain Bolt or Hicham El Guerrouj or Joe Frazier, etc.

[PistonsFan#21]

except the last two are entertaining

"that guy is the fastest person ever!"

"cool"

entertaining to some but not all. Alot of people find soccer and basketball boring actually.

And alot of people find the 100 meter dash entertaining. Its actually one of my favorite events in the summer olympics

[hateraid]

Usain Bolt's 100 meter world record

I want to say this mainly because I read somewhere that that time was supposed to be scientifically impossible.

[oarabbus]

I want to say this mainly because I read somewhere that that time was supposed to be scientifically impossible.

It's not supposed to be scientifically impossible. He just shattered the mark by a massive amount that people thought would take decades (previous record 9.79 I believe). Bolt's 100m certainly isn't the biggest accomplishment though, in fact his 200m time of 19.19 is more impressive than his 100m time.


Also, if you want to go biggest accomplishment "at the time" then it is Bob Beamon's long jump WR and not close, it absolutely blows everything out of the water. I mean to say it's almost disrespectful to Beamon to even mention Wilt's 100 point game or Bolt's 100m dash in the same sentence as Beamon's jump.


On October 18, Beamon set a world record for the long jump with a first jump of 8.90 m (29 ft. 2 1/2 in.), bettering the existing record by 55 cm (21 3/4 in.). When the announcer called out the distance for the jump, Beamon – unfamiliar with metric measurements – still did not realize what he had done.[4] When his teammate and coach Ralph Boston told him that he had broken the world record by nearly 2 feet, his legs gave way and an astonished and overwhelmed Beamon suffered a brief cataplexy attack brought on by the emotional shock,[5] and collapsed to his knees, his body unable to support itself, placing his hands over his face. In one of the more enduring images of the Games, his competitors then helped him to his feet.[6] The defending Olympic champion Lynn Davies told Beamon, "You have destroyed this event," and in sports jargon, a new adjective – Beamonesque – came into use to describe spectacular feats.

Beamon landed his jump near the far end of the sand pit but the optical device which had been installed to measure jump distances was not designed to measure a jump of such length. This forced the officials to measure the jump manually which added to the jump's aura.

Beamon's world-record jump was named by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of the five greatest sports moments of the 20th century.

also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt_Xgg8dzc

For some perspective, beating the previous long jump WR by 3" or 4" would be considered SHATTERING the record. It's quite difficult to put into words how fvcking unreal beating the previous record by almost 2 feet is. The fact that he collapsed and became temporarily catatonic is the best way to explain it.

Yes, there was wind, yes the jump was at altitude, but there was wind for Bolt as well, there will always be special circumstances during any great feat...

Nothing in recorded human history even comes close to to Beamon at the time it was achieved.

[goldenryan]

Savage-Steamboat wrestlemania 3. There really wasn't a better match up until that point.

[Just2McFly]

It's not explicitly stated but the OP is going for biggest/most impressive athletic accomplishment. Not historical achievement.

If you are looking at the actual athletic feats themselves, neither Owens or Johnson are close to someone like Usain Bolt or Hicham El Guerrouj or Joe Frazier, etc.
Does pressure not exist in your life?