Swimming: slowest winner in 100m freestyle - 1 minute, 52.72 seconds. At the 2000 Olympics, Eric Moussambani from the Equatorial Guinea became a sensation. Moussambani, who had never seen an Olympic-sized swimming pool before and had been training for just eight months, swam his 100m freestyle heat in a record slow time of 1:52.72 after the other two swimmers in his heat were disqualified for false starts. He won the heat but his time was too slow to advance to the next round. It was the slowest time in Olympic history and more than 50 seconds behind the slowest swimmer of the rest of the heats. Eric ''the Eel'' became a legend. Allsport

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Some achievements are so incredible, they are unlikely to be challenged. A few are admittedly ludicrous, which means players and teams might not be able to 'better' it even if they tried. But others are a testament to human endeavour.

We know who are the top goalscorers in football, highest run getters in cricket, most successful tennis players, greatest swimmers ... and so on.

But do you know who is the slowest swimmer in Olympics history? Or what is the biggest margin of victory in a football match?

We have put together those and other equally amazing sporting records in the picture gallery above. To view the gallery, click on the arrows or simply swipe.