Record-setter

A person or performance that establishes a new best recorded result.

Reach for it when celebrating a verified new benchmark

The record-setter completed the crossing two minutes faster than the previous mark.

• everyday

  record-breaker

  an existing mark is surpassed

  not when A setter may establish the first mark.

• warm

  champion

  victory within a competition matters

  not when A champion need not set a record.

• professional

  pace-setter

  someone establishes the standard or tempo

  not when A pace-setter may not finish first.

• professional

  top performer

  highest current results are recognized

  not when Top performance may fall below a record.

• literary

  trailblazer

  novel achievement opens a path

  not when Trailblazing is not measured by records.

• also-ran
• record-holder's challenger
• nonfinisher

• new record-setter

  The new record-setter thanked the entire relay team.

• youngest record-setter

  The youngest record-setter trained on a public track.

• national record-setter

  A national record-setter opened the athletics clinic.

Record-setter is not a headword in the dictionaries below. The sense was checked against their entries for record-holder, and the definition and example here are written for Record-setter itself.

• cambridge, the entry for record-holder, record holder noun sense: person achieving the best recorded result ↗opens in a new tab · retrieved 2026-07-26

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.