Bob Beamon's jump was Beamonesque. A word was coined because of this feat, and that the word is used to describe incredible feats. That alone makes his jump the single greatest physical feat recorded. Sure, his WR has since been broken, but that leap still holds up as the greatest.
Childbirth? Lol, gimme a break. I've had worse hangovers I'd reckon.
"The Hour Record" in cycling. Definitely the hardest physical feat. Look it up.
running 188 miles in 24 hours
50 marathons, 50 days, 50 states
Winning the West Wyoming Marathon.
Guppy wrote:
50 marathons, 50 days, 50 states
Bad Wigins wrote:Thor also viciously attacks Oklahoma every summer, destroying many buildings. Let's see anyone else do that.
Timothy McVeigh?
Not exactly what I'd call "single greatest physical feat in recorded human history"...
Uh, isn't this Letsrun? Pheidippides.
Using explosives and machinery doesn't count.
Sub 4 minutes mile...
wait for it...wait for it...
and a sub 10 second 100m in the same week.
This feat is impossible, if a human achieves it they are the greatest human of all time.
A combination of the feats this man has done in his life are worthy of this list. This inuit man has slain many polar bears with nothing more than a harpoon, has hunted and survived in the most harshest of Canada's arctic winters, has lived off of the land and supported his ENTIRE family with ease.
Oh with all of that stress he must be depressed and angry! Wrong, he and his family were the happiest folk you could meet.
The Resurrection, of course.
david boon drinking 52 cans of beer on a flight from sydney to london
On the other hand, this is right up there. Give it a minute to get going and about 1:30 to really take off:
Single greatest physical feat was the other night when I did my wife, from behind!!
I've always thought the 12 Labors of Hercules were positively Herculean.
Diego Maradona’s goals for Argentina against England in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
The Ross sisters might have a real shot at this. I thought it was a joke, but watch the whole thing. Beamon didn't have to sing and dance, and there weren't three of him. The strength moves that the central sister does, and her flexibility, are worthy of current Olympic gymnasts--and everything has to be on the beat of the music!
The construction of the ancient pyramids. So great a feat that many historians have no explanation for how it was done other than extraterrestrial assistance.
Wilt Chamberlain...scoring points and women..
I find some of the records of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton
absolutely staggering given the technology of the day:
Beryl Burton's Book of Records
10 miles: 21:25 (1973) stood for 20 years
25 miles: 53:21 (1976) stood for 20 years
30 miles: 1:08:36 (1981) stood for 10 years
50 miles: 1:51:30 (1976) stood for 20 years
100 miles: 3:55:05 (1968) stood for 18 years
12-hour: 277.25m (1967) still stands