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Thursday,
November 12, 2009
Fastest cyclist to cross Southern Australia-Guido
Kunze sets world record
SYDNEY, Australia--German extreme cyclist Guido
Kunze, 43, crossed the southern Australia by bicycle,
covering 4,200 kilometres in seven days, 19 hours and 5 minutes
and setting the new world record for the Fastest
cyclist to cross southern Australia.
Photo: The 43-year-old from Mühlhausen
in the German state of Thuringia rode a Ghost carbon road
bike equipped with a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 electronic gruppo.
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photo)
Kunze finished almost 16 hours faster than
the former Guinness world record holder, Australia's Richard
Vollebregt (Perth to Sydney in 8 days, 11 hours and
12 minutes).
Guido
Kunze was supported and equipped for his record attempt
by Paul Lange & Co, the official Shimano distributor in Germany.
Shimano’s state-of-the-art electronic road racing
component group DURA-ACE Di2, DURA-ACE wheels and pedals and
Shimano Custom-Fit road racing shoes were provided to him
and proved to be decisive factors for the record ride.
Besides acting as an ambassador for
the project “Polio Now - for a world without polio”, a worldwide
charity project of the Rotary Clubs and the Bill Gates Foundation,
Guido
Kunze ’s new world
record is also seen by Shimano as an ambitious endurance
and performance test.
Related world records:
Fastest
to cycle the Pan-American Highway-Scott Napier sets world
record
Longest
journey on mini-bikes-world record set by
Ryan Galbraith and Chris Stinson
Fastest
cyclist to circle the globe-world record set by James Bowthorpe
Longest
rickshaw ride-world record set by Simon Etkind and Lianna
Hulbert
Thursday,
November 12, 2009
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