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World Record
History of Great Britain
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| | 1928 | Dean, William Ralph "Dixie" | |
| Sets the world record for the most goals in a league season, 60 in 39 games 1907-08 |
| 1955 | Campbell, Donald | |
| 24th July Breaks the world land speed record |
| 1979 | Coe, Sebastian Newbold | |
| 17th July Oslo Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo |
| 1980 | Ovett, Stephen Michael James "Steve" | |
| After the Olympics Ovett lowers the 1500m world record time to 3:31.36 |
| Equals Sebastian Coe's world record of 3:32.1 in the 1500m |
| Establishes a new mile world record of 3:48.8 |
| 1981 | Coe, Sebastian Newbold | |
| Breaks the 1000m World record |
| Breaks the 800m World record |
| 1985 | Cram, Steve | |
| 16th July Runs 1500 meters in 3 mins 29.67 secs |
| 27th July Stockholm Runs the mile in 3 mins 46.31 secs |
| 1996 | Shearer, Alan | |
| England striker Alan Shearer is transferred from Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle for a then world record fee of œ15 million |
| 2002 | Ferdinand, Rio | |
| July The world's most expensive defender iwhen he joins Manchester United from Leeds United |
| 2003 | Radcliffe, Paula | |
| 13th April London Breaks the London Marathon world record, 2 hrs 15 mins 25 secs |
| 2005 | MacArthur, Ellen | |
| 2nd Feb MacArthur sets a record for the quickest round-the-world solo sail in 71 days, 14 hrs |
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