record
The expression record (from Latin : recordari = to remember, to remember) denotes a quantified value of an achievement , an object or an event , which is more extreme than the corresponding value of all comparable achievements, objects or events.
Records were already set in ancient Greece . It was shown that you were the first to achieve a certain achievement. Records were written on memorial stones (in the case of the Romans also on gravestones). There were records in the Middle Ages in Japan, where rice sack carriers held competitions to demonstrate the highest level of productivity (and thus the highest hourly wage). The record lists were displayed in monasteries for all to see.
The world record in the 100-meter run, for example, is the shortest time in which a runner has ever verifiably covered this distance. In addition to world records, there are also records that have been set in a specific area (e.g. European records, German records or indoor records) or at a specific event (e.g. Olympic records ). The track record is the best performance ever achieved in a sporting discipline on the respective arena or competition facility. In boxing and other martial arts , the term (often as a fight record ) has been used (since ancient times ) to summarize all results - for example wins by knockout , point wins , but also defeats - of an athlete.
People who strive for special records are described in psychology as record hunters .
The top performance of an athletics meeting is known as a meet or meeting record (MR for short).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Ramba (2014): Determination of the formative traits in sport in Greco-Roman antiquity. Diss. Univ. Goettingen. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5EFD-8
- ^ Arnd Krüger & Akira Ito: On the limitations of Eichberg's and Mandell's theory of sport and their quantification in view of chikaraishi, in: Stadion 3 (1977), 2, 244-252.
See also
Human records: