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Biggest Achievements of Sporting stars in 2021..
Picture Gallery of World and Olympic records set at the 2020 Summer Olympics..
Personal sports Archievements by other stars 
Picture Gallery of personal Achievements by football stars in 2021 ..
Norway’s Karsten Warholm broke his own world record in the men’s 400-meter hurdles…
Karsten Warholm after learning he won a gold medal and broke a world record in the men’s 400-meter hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics. 
On August 3, just a month after breaking a 29-year-old record with a time of 46.70 seconds, Warholm broke his own record with a new, faster time of 45.94 seconds.
Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela celebrates her world record..
On August 1, Rojas jumped 15.67 meters, breaking the record of 15.50 set by Inessa Kravets of Ukraine in 1995.
“I knew. I already knew. I knew from the run. I knew I couldn’t miss that one. I knew it was right there,” Rojas told AP. “I didn’t even have to look. My head, my heart, my body.”
Three world records in women’s track cycling team pursuit were broken in one day, with Germany ultimately setting the record and winning gold… 
Germany and Great Britain battled each other in the qualifying- and first-round races, each besting the world record, until Germany came out on top with a time of 4:04.242 on August 3.
Tatjana Schoenmaker of South Africa set the first individual swimming world record of the Tokyo Olympics in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke…
Schoenmaker won the race with a time of 2:18.95, breaking a world record that had been held by Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark since 2013.
Lasha Talakhadze of Georgia set a new world record in the last Olympic weightlifting event…
In men’s +109kg weightlifting, Talakhadze lifted 223 kilograms (491.631 pounds) in the snatch and 265 kilograms (584.225 pounds) in the clean and jerk for an overall new world record of 488 kilograms (1,075.86 pounds).
Team USA’s Sydney McLaughlin beat her own world record from the US Olympic Trials in the women’s 400-meter hurdles…
McLaughlin’s teammate Dalilah Muhammad held the world record in the women’s 400-meter hurdles until McLaughlin bested her at the US Olympic Trials with a time of 51.90. At the Tokyo Olympic, McLaughlin lowered her own record when she finished the race with a time of 51.46.
Naomi Osaka Is The Highest-Paid Female Athlete 2021 And Her French Open Exit May Actually Help Her.
At age 23, three years after catapulting onto the world stage with a dramatic U.S. Open victory over Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka has already proved she is not playing by anyone’s rules but her own.
UFC Star Conor McGregor becomes the highest paid athlete in 2021…
UFC Star Conor McGregor Reacts To Becoming The World’s Top-Paid Athlete: ‘I’m A Disrupter’
In 2016, Conor McGregor boasted to soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo that he’d overtake him one day as sports’ highest-paid star. This year, the UFC fighter did just that.
Robert Lewandowski equals Cristiano Ronaldo goalscoring record in final game of 2021..
Robert Lewandowski has equalled Cristiano Ronaldo’s record for most goals scored in a calendar year – the lethal duo both registering 69 goals eight years apart.
Lewandowski did actually break another record however, the strike was his 43rd league goal of 2021, setting a new record for the most goals scored within a single calendar year in the competition.
Greatest achievements by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2021..
1. Cristiano Ronaldo finishes the season with 29 Serie A goals
The first ever player to be a top goalscorer in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A 
2. Euro 2020 Golden Boot
Holders Portugal crashed out of the Round of 16 at Euro 2020 this summer, producing some underwhelming performances. They were knocked out by Belgium in the Round of 16.
Despite his team’s elimination, Ronaldo ended the Euros as the joint-top goalscorer. Both Ronaldo and the Czech Republic’s Patrik Schick scored five goals in the competition
3. All-time top goalscorer at the Euros..
Cristiano Ronaldo enjoyed an excellent Euro 2020 campaign, breaking multiple records during the tournament.
He entered the tournament tied for the most goals scored in European Championship history, with nine, level with the great Michel Platini. The 36-year-old scored five goals this summer to take his tally to 14, which comfortably made him the all-time top goalscorer in European Championship history
4. All-time top goalscorer in men’s international football
Cristiano Ronaldo’s achievements speak for themselves. For both club and country, the Portugal international has always stepped up when it has mattered.
His consistency is astounding. At international level, Ronaldo is now the all-time top goalscorer in men’s football. The 36-year old has scored 115 goals in 182 appearances for Portugal since his debut in 2003. He surpassed the record of Iran’s Ali Daei (109) to claim the record outright
Cristiano Ronaldo scores 800th career goal in 2021 
While his place among the all-time football greats is already secure, Portugal and Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo reached another truly gigantic career milestone by scoring twice in Thursday’s 3-2 win in the Premier League clash against Arsenal to take his career goal tally past 800.
Copa America 2021: Lionel Messi in numbers – How good was the Argentina star?
Other than being the standout performer for his team as well as in the entire tournament.
He surpassed Javier Mascherano and became the most capped Argentina player in international football of all time (151). He is also the only Argentina player to play in 150 international matches.
Messi scripted the record of providing the most number of assists in one edition (five) and also became the first Argentina player to appear in six different editions of the Copa America (2007-2021).
Most goals in Copa America
With four goals in six matches in the ongoing Copa America 2021, Messi has scored 13 goals in six editions of the tournament. He is four goals short of touching Zizinho (Brazil) and Norberto Mendez’s (Argentina) tally of 17 goals, the most by any player in the competition
Messi’s Copa America photo breaks Instagram’s record as the most-liked sports photo..in 2021
Messi’s Instagram post of himself with the Copa America trophy has become the platform’s most-liked sports photograph, surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo’s most paying tribute to Diego Maradona after his passing on November 25, 2020
records set by Lionel Messi after winning the 2021 Ballon d’Or..
1. First player to win 7 Ballon d’Or awards in the history of football.
2. First Ligue 1 player to win the Ballon d’Or in the 21st century.
3. Lionel Messi is the first PSG player to win the Ballon d’Or
4. Lionel Messi is the first PSG player to win the Ballon d’Or :
At the age of 34 years and 159 days, Lionel Messi also became the oldest footballer to lift the Ballon d’Or this century. Fabio Cannavaro in 2006 and Luka Modric in 2018 were the oldest winners in the millennium before Messi. Both were 33 when they received the prestigious honor.
Only Sir Stanley Matthews is ahead of Lionel Messi’s achievement. Stanley Matthews, who was also the inaugural winner of the Ballon d’Or won it at the age of 41 years. Matthews paid close attention to fitness, and this helped him to keep playing the sport at a high level until he was 50!
5. First player to win the Ballon d’Or in three different decades.
12 years since his first win in 2009, Lionel Messi has become the first player to lift the Ballon d’Or in three different decades. This kind of consistency isn’t common in the sport where the greatest footballers have maintained peaks for around five years.
Lionel Messi
