(CBS News) While many of us are avidly watching the Olympics right now, the world-wide event well-known for smashing records left and right every four years, a new world record may have just been ...

Bania bests the current Guiness World Record for “Highest Standing Jump” by over five inches. The current official record is 58.27″ set by Jonas Huusom of Denmark in August 2011.

Nov. 4 (UPI) --A Texas man said it took him three years of training to capture the Guinness World Record for highest standing jump with a 5-foot, 5-inch vertical leap. Brett Williams, a student at the ...

June 18 (UPI) --A Malaysian athlete broke the Guinness World Record for highest standing jump on one leg when he managed a vertical leap of 4 feet, 6.49 inches. Harinder Sekhon, 29, the wicketkeeper ...

Harinder Sekhon strengthening his legs for the single-leg standing jump record attempt. It’s been almost a decade since Harinder Sekhon last ate a piece of cake or his childhood favourite – chapati ...

He won eight gold medals in three Olympics and is among the top 10 all-time gold-winning athletes. It is a different matter that his unprecedented feats came in events no longer in existence now: the ...

Standing box jumps are yesterday's news. Standing jumps into a pair of pants are the new thing. Check out what Olympian Lolo Jones did recently after a few failed attempts (good use of music here too) ...