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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Longest
distance traveled on a wakeboard - Wake Nation team
sets world record
FAIRFIELD, OH, USA -- A team of 10 wake boarders completed
1,448 laps for 506.8 miles in a 24-hour period at Wake
Nation Cincinnati , setting the world record for the
longest
distance traveled on a wakeboard in 24 hours by a team.
Photo: Wakeboarding champ Adam Errington
was part of a 10-member team that set the new world record
for the longest
distance traveled on a wakeboard in 24 hours by a team.
Photo by Joey Meddock / Wake Nation Cincinnati
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photo)
Donations and pledges from the event benefited
MedLend, a nonprofit organization that provides medical missions
to impoverished countries around the globe.
There were certain pros that we knew we
wanted to have on the team,” said team member and co-owner
of Wake Nation Pete Kennedy.
Peter Kennedy, the co-owner of the
water park and his business partner, Nick Binkley, were on
the team that also includes three professionals: 2009 Australian
National Champion Amber Wing, 2008 World Wake Park Champion
Tom Fooshee and 2009 WWA National Champion Adam Errington.
The rest of the team included Liquid Force
founder Tony Finn, Wakeboarding Magazine managing editor Brian
Wheeler, Liquid Force team rider Neill Barker and distributor
of the Rixen cable system, Mike Olson.
The 10th spot was to be held by professional
J.D. Webb, but he couldn’t participate due to an injury.
“If another cable park tries to beat
it, we’ll come back and beat it the next year,” Kennedy said.
“Certainly if anyone tried to beat this, we would beat it
again.”
Kennedy hopes that achieving the new
record will generate more interest in wake boarding.
“I think this will put us on the map and
the wakeboarding community on a global level,” Kennedy said.
Wakeboarding is just getting a hold in Cincinnati and I think
Wake Nation helping that will help bring a lot of new people
to the sport.”
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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