record holder

noun

: the person or thing that has achieved something no other person or thing has achieved : a person or thing that holds a record

He is the marathon world record holder.

They're developing an airplane that is expected to be faster than the current record holder.

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Starting Wednesday, Major League Baseball will have a new record holder in several single-season and career categories. —Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024

Australia’s Herb Elliott had been staying with world record holder Derek Ibbotson in England in August 1958 in the weeks leading up to lowering the global standard to 3:57.2 in Dublin. —Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 25 May 2024

The current record holder for the most expensive Beatles guitar is Lennon’s Gibson J160E, which sold for $2.4 million in 2015. —Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2024

The record holder is Adele’s 2015 effort 25, with 800,000 first-week units; ahead of Oasis’s 1997 release Be Here Now, with 696,000 units (collected in just three sales days); and Ed Sheeran’s album from 2017 ÷ with 670,000 units, respectively. —Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2024

The previous record holder sold for $2.6 million at a Phillips auction in Geneva in 2016. —Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2024

While claiming Bolt could have run faster than 19.19 seconds, the former 100-meter world record holder stated there is a possibility for the record to fall this season with Noah Lyles continuing to up his performance. —Paras Jan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

His biggest competitor will be the current 60-meter world record holder Christian Coleman. —Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024

Jean-Philippe Lartigue is officially a state record holder after landing an enormous rainbow trout in northern Maryland. —Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024