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(GWR - Guinness World Record)

Most Grey Cup Wins
The Toronto Argonauts have won 14 Grey Cups between 1914 and 1997. (GWR 2001)

Highest Attendance At A Grey Cup Final
68,318 people saw the Montreal Alouettes beat the Edmonton Eskimos 41-6 in Montreal on November 27, 1977. (GWR 2003)

Most Individual Points In A Grey Cup Final
Montreal Alouette's Don Sweet scored 23 points in the 1977 Grey Cup Final. (GWR 2003)

Longest Completed Pass In Canadian Football
Sam Etcheverry of the Montreal Alouettes completed a 109 yard pass against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on September 22, 1956, as did Jerry Keeling of the Calgary Stampeders against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on September 27, 1966. (GWR 2003)

Most Rushing Yards In A CFL Career
Most Touchdowns In A CFL Career
George Reed rushed for 16,116 yards and scored 137 touchdowns for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1963-75. (GWR 2002)

Most CFL Points Scored In A CFL Career
Most Games Played In A CFL Career
Lui Passaglia scored 3,984 points for the B.C. Lions between 1976 and 2000 and played in 408 games. (GWR 2002)

Most Points Scored In A CFL Season
Lance Chomyc scored 236 points for the Toronto Argonauts in the 1991 season. (GWR 2001)

Most Touchdowns Scored In A CFL Season
Cory Philpot (USA) scored 22 touchdowns for the B.C. Lions in the 1995 season. (GWR 2004)

Most Yards Passing In A CFL Season
Doug Flutie threw for 6,619 yards for the British Columbia Lions in the 1991 season. (GWR 2003)

Most Points Scored In A Game
Bob McNamara scored 36 points for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers versus the B.C. Lions on October 13, 1956. (GWR 2004)

Longest Rush In Canadian Football
The longest rush of 109 yards was done by George Dixon for the Montreal Alouettes versus the Ottawa Rough Riders on September 2, 1963, and Willie Fleming for the B.C. Lions versus the Edmonton Eskimos on October 17, 1964. (GWR 2004)

Longest Field Goal
Dave Ridgeway (UK) kicked a 60-yard field goal for the Saskatchewan Roughriders against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on September 6, 1987. (GWR 2004)

Most Yards Receiving In A Season
Allen Pitts gained a record 2,036 yards receiving for the Calgary Stampeders in the 1994 season. (GWR 2004)

Most Yards Rushing In A Game
Ron Stewart rushed 287 yards for the Ottawa Rough Riders against the Montreal Alouettes on October 10, 1960. (GWR 2004)

Most Interceptions In A Career
Ron Lancaster made 396 interceptions with for Ottawa and Saskatchewan from 1960-78. (GWR 2004)

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Most Women's Paralympics Basketball Titles
Canada has won the women's paralympics basketball title three times in 1992, 1996 and 2000. (GWR 2003)

Most Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championships
Canada has won the women's wheelchair basketball titles twice, in 1994 and 1998. (GWR 2002)

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Longest Hockey Match
The Moosimin, Saskatchewan, Moose played 62 hours and 15 minutes with their roster of 40 players ending January 12, 2003. The Blue team beat the White team 429-411 and $250,000 was raised for a new hospital in Moosimin. This record has been broken several times previously in the past few years with the previous record of 54 hours at the Bell Centre in Montreal on December 11, 2002. (GWR 2004)

Most Women's World Championship Titles
Canada has won all eight women's World Championships in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997 and 1999 to 2002. (GWR 2003)

Most Stanley Cups
The Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup 24 times in their 32 appearances in the finals. It is also the most wins of a Major Championship in sports. (GWR 2003)

Most Individual Stanley Cups
Henri Richard has 11 Stanley Cup wins with the Montreal Canadiens between 1956 and 1975. (GWR 2003)

Most Stanley Cup Playoff Points
Wayne Gretzky has scored 382 Stanley Cup playoff points (1222 goals and 260 assists) in his career. He also has the most Stanley Cup playoff points in a season with 47 in 1985. (GWR 2001)

Most Goals In A Stanley Cup Playoff Game By One Player
Five players have scored five goals in a Stanley Cup playoff game. Newsy Lalonde for Montreal Canadiens on March 1, 1919; Maurice Richard for Montreal Canadiens on March 23, 1944; Darryl Sittler for Toronto Maple Leafs on April 22, 1976; Reggie Leach for Philadelphia Flyers on May 6, 1976 and Mario Lemieux for Pittsburgh Penguins April 25, 1989. (GWR 2003)

Most Assists In A Stanley Cup Playoff Game By One Player
Wayne Gretzky shares a record of six assists with Mikko Leinonen of Finland. Gretzky assisted six times for the Edmonton Oilers on April 9, 1987 against the Los Angeles Kings. (GWR 2003)

Most Points In A Stanley Cup Playoff Game By One Player
Mario Lemieux shares a record of eight points with Patrik Sundström of Sweden. Lemieux had five goals and three assists with the Pittsburgh Penguins on April 25, 1989 against Philadelphia Flyers. (GWR 2003)

Most NHL Playoff Penalty Minutes
Dale Hunter amassed 729 penalty minutes in NHL playoff games with the Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals and Colorado Avalanche from 1980 to 1999. (GWR 2004)

Most Goaltending Shutouts In NHL Playoffs
Patrick Roy has 22 shutouts in playoffs with the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche between 1985 to 2002. (GWR 2004)

Most Team Individual Goals And Points In NHL Season
The Edmonton Oilers scored 446 goals in the 1983/84 season. The Oilers also achieved 1,182 points in that season. (GWR 2003)

Most Team Points
The Montreal Canadiens scored 132 team points (60 wins, 12 ties) from 80 games played in 1976/77 season. Their eight losses are the lowest in a season of 70 or more games. (GWR 2000)

Most Games Played In Career
Gordie Howe played professionally in 2,421 games from 1946 to 1979. (GWR 2003)

Most NHL Career Goals, Assists and Points
Wayne Gretzky scored 894 goals and 1,963 assists for 2,857 points in 1,478 games from 1979 to 1999. (GWR 2003)

Most Career Wins By A Goaltender
Patrick Roy has won 516 games up to the end of the April 2002. (GWR 2003)

Most Penalty Minutes In A NHL Career
Dave 'Tiger' Williams amassed 3,966 penalty minutes over 17 seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers from 1971 to 1988. (GWR 2004)

Most Team Goals and Points In A NHL Season
The Edmonton Oilers scored 446 goals and 1,182 points in the 1983/84 season. (GWR 2001)

Most Goals, Assists and Points in a Season
Wayne Gretzky scored 92 goals in the 1981/82 season, 163 assists and 215 points in the 1985/86 season all with the Edmonton Oilers. (GWR 2003)

Most Goals In A NHL Season By A Rookie
Teemu Selanne (Finland) scored 76 goals in his first season with the Winnipeg Jets in 1992/93. (GWR 2004)

Most Individual Wins In A Season
Bernie Parent won 47 games as a goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1973/74 season. (GWR 2003)

Longest Undefeated Streak By A Goaltender
Gerry Cheevers was undefeated for 32 consecutive games for the Boston Bruins in the 1971/72 season. (GWR 2001)

Most Consecutive NHL Games Played
Doug Jarvis played 964 consecutive games playing for the Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals and Hartford Whalers from October 8, 1975 to October 10, 1987. (GWR 2004)

Most Hat Tricks In NHL Career
Wayne Gretzky has scored three or more goals (hat trick) in a game 50 times. (GWR 2003)

Highest Scoring Game In NHL
21 goals were scored when the Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto St. Pats 14-7 on January 10, 1920; and when the Edmonton Oilers beat the Chicago Blackhawks 12-9 on December 11, 1985. (GWR 2001)

Most Penalties In An NHL Game
In the February 28, 1990, game between the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings, there were 85 penalties awarded to the two teams. (GWR 2004)

Most Goals By One Team In NHL Game
The Montreal Canadiens scored 16 goals against the Quebec Bulldogs, who had 3 goals, on November 3, 1920. (GWR 2001)

Most Goals By One Player In NHL Game
Joe Malone scored seven goals for Quebec Bulldogs against the Toronto St. Patricks in Quebec City on January 31, 1920. (GWR 2003)

Most Assists By One Player in NHL Game
Billy Taylor assisted seven times for Detroit Red Wings on March 16, 1947. Wayne Gretzky has seven assists in one game three times on February 15, 1980; December 11, 1985 and February 14, 1986. (GWR 2003)

Most Points By A Player in One Game
Jim Harrison scored three goals and seven assists for ten points for the Alberta (Edmonton) Oilers on January 30, 1973. Darryl Sittler managed six goals and four assists for Toronto Maple Leafs on February 7, 1976. (GWR 2003)

Fastest NHL Goal
Doug Smail of Winnipeg Jets scored a goal five seconds after the opening whistle against St. Louis Blues in Winnipeg on December 20, 1981 as did Bryan Trottier of New York Islanders against Boston Bruins in Boston on March 22, 1984 and Alexander Mogilny from Russia of Buffalo Sabres against Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto on December 21, 1991. (GWR 2003)

Longest Ban For An On-Ice Infraction
Boston Bruin Marty McSorley was suspended for 23 games for hitting Vancouver Canuck Donald Brashear with his stick at Vancouver on February 21, 2000. (GWR 2001)

Longest Playing Time In A NHL Game
The Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons played for 2 hr. 56 min. 30 sec. on March 25, 1936. In the sixth overtime, in Montreal, Detroit won 1-0 and goaltender Norm Smith stopped 92 shots for NHL's longest single shutout. (GWR 1998)

Most NHL All-Star Selections
Gordie Howe was selected 21 times for as an NHL All-Star while playing for the Detroit Red Wings between 1946 and 1979. He was selected for the first team on 12 occasions and the second team nine times. (GWR 2004)

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Longest Baseball Throw
Glen Gorbous threw a baseball 445 ft. 10 in. on August 1, 1957. (GWR 2000)

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Highest Score In A Women's International Soccer Game
Canada beat Puerto Rico 21-0 at Centennial Park, Toronto on August 28, 1998. Three other games also featured a score of 21-0: Japan defeating Guam, Australia defeating American Samoa and New Zealand defeating Samoa. (GWR 2002)

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Fastest World Cup Century
The fastest World Cup 100 runs scored by an individual was made in 67 balls by John Davison against the West Indies in South Africa on February 23, 2003. (GWR 2004)

Lowest One-Day International Team Score
The lowest completed innings total is 36 by Canada against Sri Lanka in South Africa on February 19, 2003. (GWR 2004)

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Largest Olympic Torch Relay
The Olympic torch travelled a distance of 18,060 km (11,222 miles) from Athens to St. John's, Newfoundland, and carried several months on its way to Calgary for the XV Olympic Winter Games in 1988. It was carried by foot, 8,188 km (5,088 miles); by aircraft or ferry, 7,111 km (4,419 miles); by snowmobile, 2,756 km (1,712 miles); and by dog sled, 5 km (3 miles). (GWR 1998)

Longest Olympic Career For A Woman
Christilot Hanson-Boylen and American Anne Jessica Ranselhousen competed in dressage (form of horse riding) for eight Olympics. (GWR 1998)

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Fastest Men's 100 M
Donovan Bailey set an Olympic record of 9.84 sec. at the Atlanta Games in 1996. American Maurice Greene broke the 100 metre record with a time of 9.79 sec. on June 16, 1999 in Athens. He equalled the time set by Ben Johnson at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul but Johnson was disqualified after a positive drug test. (GWR 2000)

Fastest Men's Indoor 50 Metre
Donovan Bailey shares the record of 5.56 seconds with American Maurice Greene. Donovan set the record in Reno, Nevada on February 9, 1996. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Men's Indoor 50-Metre Hurdles
Mark McCoy holds the record of 6.25 seconds set in Kobe, Japan on March 5, 1986. (GWR 2003)

Fastest 100 X 1-Mile Relay
The men's Canadian Milers Athletic Club of Toronto relayed 100 people for 100 miles in a time of 7 hr. 35 min. 55.4 sec. on December 20, 1998 at York University. The club's women's team completed a record time of 9 hr. 23 min. 39 sec. on December 27, 1999. (GWR 2003)

Longest Runs
New Zealander Max Telford ran 8,244 km (5,100 miles) from Anchorage, Alaska, to Halifax in 106 days 18 hr. 45 min. from July 25 to November 9, 1977.
British Al Howie ran across Canada, from St. John's to Vancouver, covering 7,295.5 km (4,533.2 miles) in 72 days 10 hr. 23 min. ending in September 1991. (GWR 1998)

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Most "Vertical Feet" Skied
Edi Podivinsky, Luke Sauder and Chris Kent, along with Dominique Perret of Switzerland, skied 107,777 m (353,600 ft) in a time of 14 hr. 30 min. on a slope at Blue River, British Columbia. Snowboarder Tammy McMinn accompanied American skier Jennifer Hughes as they skied 93,124 m (305,525 ft.) for almost 15 hours at Atlin, British Columbia. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Snowshoeing
Nick Akers of Edmonton covered 1.6 km (1 mile) in a time of 5 min. 56.7 sec. (GWR 1998)

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Fastest Curling Game
Eight curlers from the Burlington Golf and Country Club curled an eight-end game in 47 min. 24 sec. with penalties of 5 min. 30 sec. on April 4, 1986 under Ontario Curling Association rules. (GWR 2003)

Most Curling World Championships
Canada has won 27 men's World Championships between 1959 and 2002 and 12 women's World Championships between 1980 and 2001. (GWR 2003)

Longest Curling Throw
Eddie Kulbacki threw a curling stone 175.66 m (576 ft. 4 in.) at Park Lake, Neepawa, Manitoba on January 29, 1989. The curling ice sheet was a record 365.76 m (1,200 ft.) in length. (GWR 2003)

Largest Bonspiel
The Manitoba Curling Association Bonspiel, held annually in Winnipeg, had 1,424 teams of four men, a total of 5,696 players, using 187 sheets of curling ice in 1988. (GWR 1998)

Largest Rink
The Big Four Curling Rink in Calgary could hold 96 teams and 384 players on 24 sheets of ice. (GWR 1998)

Most Strathcona Cup Wins
Canada has won the Strathcona Cup (instituted in 1903) against Scotland 7 times in 1903, 1909, 1912, 1923, 1938, 1957 and 1965. (GWR 2004)

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Highest Figure-Skating Marks
Great Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean obtained 29 maximum six marks at the World Ice Dance Championships in Ottawa in March 1984.

Donald Jackson obtained 7 sixes in the World Men's Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) in 1962. (GWR 2000)

Most Short-Track Speed-Skating Olympic Medals
Marc Gagnon has won five medals, three gold and two bronze, between 1994 and 2002. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Men's 500 M and 1,000 M
Jeremy Wotherspoon speed skated 500 metres in 34.63 seconds and 1,000 metres in 1 min. 8.35 sec. in Calgary on March 18, 2000. He broke his previous record for 500 metres of 34.76 seconds set in Calgary on February 20, 1999. (GWR 2001 & GWR 2000)

Fastest Men's 3,000 M
Steven Elm speed skated 3,000 metres in 3 min. 43.76 sec. in Calgary on March 17, 2000. (GWR 2001)

Fastest Women's 500 M
Catriona LeMay Doan skated 500 m in 37.22 seconds in Calgary on December 9, 2001. She broke her previous record of 37.55 seconds in Calgary on December 29, 1997. (GWR 2003 & GWR 2000)

Fastest Men's Short-Track 500 M
Jeffrey Scholten skated a short-track 500 m in 41.514 sec in Calgary on October 13, 2001. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Men's Short-Track 1,000 m and 1,500 M
Steve Robillard skated a short-track 1,000 m in 1 min. 25.985 sec. in Calgary on October 14, 2001. He broke his record in short-track 1,500 m in 2002 from the year before in 2 min. 12.234 sec in Calgary on November 13. (GWR 2003 & 2004)

Fastest Men's Short-Track 3,000 M
Steve Robillard skated a short-track 3,000 m in 4 min. 38.061 sec. in Calgary on November 13, 2002. (GWR 2004)

Fastest Men's Short-Track 5,000-M Relay
Eric Bedard, Marc Gagnon, Jean-Francois Monette and Mathieu Turcotte skated a short-track 5,000-m relay in 6 min. 43.73 sec. in Calgary on October 14, 2001. (GWR 2003)

Most Wins In Women's Short-Track
Sylvie Daigle had won four short-track speed skating championships in 1983 and between 1988 and 1990. (GWR 2002)

Most Short-Track Speed Skating World Championship Wins
Mark Gagnon has won the World Championship four times in 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998. (GWR 2002)

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Most Women's Olympic Biathlon Gold
Myriam Bédard and Russian Anfissa Restzova have won two Olympic biathlon gold. Bédard won the 7.5 km and the 15 km in 1994. (GWR 2002)

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Most Golf Balls Hit In One Hour
Sean Murphy hit 2,146 golf balls over a distance of 91 m (100 yd.) into a designated for one hour at Swifts Practice Range, Carlisle, UK on June 30, 1995. (GWR 2003)

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Most Women's Olympic Rowing Gold Medals
Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean have won three Olympic gold medals for rowing in coxless pairs and the eights at the 1992 Games and in the double sculls at the 1996 Games. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Single Sculls By A Woman
Silken Laumann set a time of 7 min. 17.09 sec. at Lucerne, Switzerland on July 17. 1994. (GWR 2000)

Longest Rowing Race
The Canadian Government Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant and Race from Rocky Mountain Range, Alberta, to the Expo 67 site in Montreal covered 5,283 km (3,283 miles). The race, which had ten teams racing, took from May 24 to September 4, 1967. (GWR 2003)

Longest Water-Ski Fly Distance
Jaret Llewellyn ski-flied a distance of 91.1 m (298 ft. 10 in.) at the Big Air Challenge in Orlando, Florida, on May 14, 2000. (GWR 2003)

Biggest Brook Trout
Dr. W.J. Cook caught a 14 lb. 8 oz. brook trout at Nipigion River, Ontario, in July 1916. (GWR 2000)

Biggest Lake Trout
Rodney Harback caught a 66 lb. 8 oz. lake trout at Great Bear Lake on July 19, 1991. (GWR 2000)

Biggest Bluefin Tuna
Ken Fraser caught a 388 lb. 2 oz. bluefin tuna at Aulds Cove, Nova Scotia, on October 26, 1979. (GWR 2000)

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Fastest Time To Clear Two Pool Tables
Nicolaos Nikolaidis cleared two tables in 1 min. 33 sec. at Bar and Billard Unison, Quebec City on August 14, 2001. He also potted the most balls, 16,723, in 24 hours. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Clearance Of One Table
British Dave Pearson cleared 15 balls in 26.5 sec. at Pepper's Bar and Grill in Windsor, Ontario, on April 4, 1997. (GWR 2003)

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Most Regained Heavyweight Championships
Lennox Lewis along with Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield, have regained the heavyweight title twice. Lewis first took the World Boxing Council (WBC) title in 1993 and regained it in 1997 and 2001. (GWR 2003)

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Fastest Men's 200 M Cycling Unpace Flying Start
Curtis Harnett cycled 200 m in 9.865 sec. unpaced from a flying start at Bogotá, Colombia, on September 28, 1995. (GWR 2003)

Fastest Motorcycle Circuit
Yvon du Hamel attained an average lap speed of 160.228 mph and a time of 56.149 seconds at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida on March 1973. (GWR 2000)

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Most Rotations On A Pommel Horse
Tyler Farstad completed 97 consecutive double-leg circles on a pommel horse at Surrey Gymnastic Society, Surrey, British Columbia, on November 27, 1993. (GWR 2002)

Perfect Scores
Romanian Nadia Comaneci was the first person to get a perfect score (10.00) in the Olympics scoring seven tens at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. (GWR 1998)

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Greatest Rappelled Distance Down A Building
Two teams of 12 representing the Canadian School of Rescue Training and the UK Royal Marines rappelled 446.5 m (1,465 ft.) from the Space Deck of the CN Tower to the ground on July 1, 1992. (GWR 2002)

Longest Rope Slide
Stu Leggett of Canadian School of Rescue Training and British Lance-Corporal Peter Baldwin slid from the summit of Mt. Gibraltar, Alberta, to ground level, a distance of 1,746.5 m (5,730 ft.) on August 31, 1994. (GWR 2002)

Longest Snowboarding Vertical Descent
American Tammy McMinn snowboarded down a slope at Atlin, British Columbia, 101 times at a total vertical descent of 93,124 m (305,539 ft.). (GWR 2002)

Longest Flying Inverted Aerobatics Flight
Joann Osterud lasted 4 hr. 38 min. 10 sec. flying from Vancouver to Vanderhoof, British Columbia, on July 24, 1991. He also holds the record for most outside loops of 208 achieved in a Supernova Hyperpipe over North Bend, Oregon, on July 13, 1989. (GWR 2003)

Longest Paraglider Flight
William Gadd paraglided 423.4 km (263.08 miles) from Zapata to south of Ozona, Texas, USA on June 21, 2002. (GWR 2004)

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