SPORTSMOST EHF HANDBALL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GOALS
SCORED BY AN INDIVIDUAL IN A SINGLE SEASON
Mikkel Hansen (DNK, above right) scored 141 goals for Paris
Saint-Germain Handball (FRA) during the 2015–16 European
Handball Federation (EHF) Champions League season.
The prolific left-back scored nine goals in his opening game
against Flensburg (DEU) and hit double figures six times –
twice in the Final4 against Kielce (POL) and THW Kiel (DEU).Most wins of the FIVB
Volleyball Women’s Club
World Championship
On 23 Oct 2016, Turkish
side Eczacıbaşı VitrA
successfully defended their
Fédération Internationale
de Volleyball (FIVB) title.
They are the first side to
win the title more than once
since its inception in 1991.
Most participants in
the FIVB Volleyball
World League (men)
The men’s 2016 competition
had 36 teams, four more
than in 2015. Serbia won
the title for the first time.
Most EHF Handball
Champions League goals
scored by an individual
Between 1998 and 11 Mar
2017, Kiril Lazarov (MKD)
scored 1,164 goals in the
EHF Champions League.Most IHF Super Globe
wins (men)
Three club sides have won
the International Handball
Federation (IHF) Super
Globe twice: BM Ciudad
Real (ESP, 2007 and 2010),
Barcelona (ESP, 2013–14)
and Füchse Berlin (DEU,
2015–16). Berlin beat PSG
by a point to retain the title.Most consecutive
appearances in the
men’s IHF Beach
Handball World
Championships final
Brazil have reached every
Beach Handball World
Championship final save
the first, in 2004. In 2016,
they made their sixth
consecutive appearance,
but were beaten by Croatia.
Brazil have won four finals.Most women’s Hockey
Champions Trophy wins
Argentina won the
2016 women’s title, taking
their tally to seven. Las
Leonas (“The Lionesses”)
had also triumphed in 2001,
2008–10, 2012 and 2014.
Midfielder Luciana Aymar
featured in the first six
wins – the most wins of
the women’s Hockey
Champions Trophy by
an individual.Most men’s Hockey
Champions Trophy wins
Australia have won the
Champions Trophy 14 times:
in 1983–85, 1989–90, 1993,
1999, 2005, 2008–12 and- They won their most
recent title after a penalty
shoot-out victory against
India at the Lee Valley
Hockey and Tennis Centre
in London, UK.
Most consecutive
Olympic appearances
by a gymnast
Uzbekistan’s Oksana
Chusovitina made her
seventh consecutive
Olympic appearance, at
Rio 2016, aged 41 years
56 days. She made her
debut at Barcelona 1992
representing the Olympic
Unified Team, winning gold
in the team
event.Most Olympic
equestrian medals
won by an individual
At Rio 2016, Isabell Werth
(DEU) rode Weihegold Old to
gold and silver in the team
and individual dressage
events respectively. This
brought her tally of Olympic
medals to 10: six gold and
four silver. Werth’s first
Games was Barcelona 1992,
when she won two medals
on Gigolo.MOST ITU WORLD
TRIATHLON SERIES
EVENT WINS (MEN)
On 2 Jul 2016, Alistair
Brownlee (UK) won
his 2 1st International
Triathlon Union (ITU)
World Series event in
Stockholm, Sweden.
In the finale to the 2016
World Series in Cozumel,
Mexico, on 18 Sep, Alistair
slowed down in order to
help his exhausted brother
Jonny over the line (right).
At Rio 2016, Alistair
successfully defended the
Olympic triathlon title he had
won at London 2012 – earning
him the most Olympic
triathlon gold medals (2).MOST KABADDI WORLD CUP WINS (MEN)
India (above, in blue) have hosted and won the Kabaddi
World Cup every year the competition has been held: in
2010–14 and 2016. Their sixth victory came courtesy of a
62–20 defeat of England in the final of the 2016 tournament,
held on 17 Nov. The event adheres to the “Punjab Circle
Style” as opposed to the “Standard Style”.
India also holds the record for most Kabaddi World Cup
wins (women) with four, achieved in 2012–14 and 2016.FASTEST TIME TO COMPLETE
AN IRONMAN TRIATHLON (MALE)
An Ironman triathlon is a gruelling one-day sporting event
comprising a 2.4-mi (3.86-km) swim, a 112-mi (180.25-km)
bicycle ride and a 26.22-mi (42.20-km) marathon run. On
17 Jul 2016, Jan Frodeno (DEU) completed the Challenge
Roth Ironman in Roth, Germany, in 7 hr 35 min 39 sec.
Frodeno beat the previous record by almost 6 min, despite
crashing into a ditch on the second lap of the bike circuit.