| Record Broken | Athlete | Year |
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| Passed Roy Emerson in total career men's tennis Grand Slam titles. The record has since been surpassed. | |
| Consecutive men's major golf championships with 4 in a row. | |
| Surpassed Walter Payton's total career NFL rushing yards (17,162 at the close of the league's 2002 season, with 975 tallied therein) | |
| Consecutive saves converted in a single MLB regular season (55 across the league's 2003 season) | |
| Surpassed Dan Marino's total single-season NFL passing touchdowns record (49 in the league's 2004 season) | |
| Surpassed Priest Holmes' total single-season NFL rushing touchdowns record (27 in the league's 2005 season) | |
| Surpassed the previous answer's American football Total single-season NFL rushing touchdowns cecord (28 in the league's 2006 season) | |
| Surpassed Dan Marino's total career NFL passing touchdowns record (442 at the close of the 2007 season, with 28 tallied therein | |
| Surpassed Mark Spitz's record for total gold medals achieved at a single Games of the Olympiad (Eight in the 2008 Summer Olympics) | |
| Longest match in tennis history, lasting 11 hours, 5 minutes; ______ defeated Mahut 70-68 in the fifth set of the 1st round match. | |
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