Max Verstappen - Youngest driver to win a Formula One World Championship race – 18 years and 228 days at the Spanish Grand Prix, in May 2016
• Jordan Spieth: Highest earnings in a PGA season - $12,030,465 (£7,851,960) in 2015
• Gareth Barry: Most Premier League starts in history - 580
• Petr Cech: Most Premier League clean sheets in history - 181
• Novak Djokovic: Most prize money won in a tennis season - $21,646,145 (£14,600,200) in 2015
• Leicester City: Largest rise in position in the Premier League, in consecutive seasons – 13 places, 14th to 1st
• Adam Peaty: Fastest long course 100 m breaststroke – now 57.13 seconds set in Rio (was 57.92 sec when book was printed)
• Cristiano Ronaldo: Most followed athlete on Twitter – 47.4m (as of 12 October '16)
• Serena Williams: Longest span of grand slam titles (open era): 1999 to 2016
• Stuart Broad: Fastest five-wicket haul in a Test Match (balls bowled) – 19 balls v Australia, August 2015
• US women's soccer legend Carli Lloyd: Most goals in a FIFA Women's World Cup final – 3 v Japan in July 2015. Fastest goal in a FIFA Women's World Cup final – 3 minutes. Oldest goal-scorer in a FIFA Women's World Cup final – 32 years and 354 days old
• Holly Holm: First athlete to win boxing and MMA world titles – WBA welterweight title in 2006, UFC bantamweight title in 2015
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