With Dutch speed skater Jorien ter Mors skating to an incredible time of 1:53.51 in the women's 1,500 meter race on Sunday, it marked the sixth time that a new Olympic record has been set at an event in Sochi.
Here is a quick look at the five other records set at the 2014 Winter Olympics:
Meryl Davis and Charlie White (United States) - Figure Skating - Team Event Free Dance
With a score of 114.34 being given to the American ice dancing pair during the team event, Davis and White not only set a new Olympic record, but also a new world record. They'll attempt to better that score on Sunday during the actual pair's ice dancing event.
Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov (Russia) - Figure Skating - Pairs Short Program
The Russian couple that went on to win the gold medal in pairs figure skating started things out on the right skate by setting a new world record with an 84.17 score in their short program.
Yuzuru Hanyu (Japan) - Figure Skating - Men's Short Program
After falling on multiple occasions during his free skate, it's fair to say that Hanyu's gold medal was won largely on the back of his world record setting short program, which scored an incredible 101.45. No skater has ever scored over a 100.
Sven Kramer (Netherlands) - Speed Skating - Men's 5,000m
The Dutch dominance at speed skating has been one of the more remarkable stories coming out of Sochi. They started the trend on Day 1 with the best speed skater in the world breaking his own Olympic record in the men's 5,000m event with a time of 6:10.76. Look for Kramer to target another Olympic record when he competes in the 10,000m on Wednesday.
Lee Sang-hwa (South Korea) - Speed Skating - Women's 500m
The South Korean speed skater not only set an Olympic record in the women's 500m during her second heat with a time of 37.28, she also set an Olympic record for combined time, having previously raced the 500m in a time of 37.42 seconds in the previous heat.
Other Records:
- Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won gold in the 10km sprint event, becoming the oldest Winter Olympics gold medalist at age 40. He simultaneously tied the record number of total medals in the Winter Olympics at 12, sharing it with his countryman Bjorn Daehlie.
- Canadian moguls skier Justine Dufour-Lapointe became the youngest freestyle skiing gold medalist at the age of 19 years, 321 days. Her older sister Chloe finished second in the same event, while her eldest sister Maxime finished 12th. Oddly enough, they're the third pair of sisters to finish 1–2 in an event at the Winter Games. It was also the fifth time that three siblings have competed at the same event at the Winter Olympics.
- Italy's Armin Zoeggeler became the first to capture a medal in the same event in six consecutive Olympics, when he won bronze in men's luge.
- Finally, Canadian Alexandre Bilodeau, as the winner of the men's moguls, became the first freestyle skiing gold medalist to defend his Olympic title, and the very first repeat gold medalist in the sport.
