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CYCLIST BREAKS WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD
A 23-year-old Dutch
cyclist has pedalled his way to a world record, hitting more than 133.78kph as
he sped through a US desert, to become the planet's fastest cyclist.
Sebastiaan Bowier reached a rip-roaring 133.78 kph
in the high-tech recumbent bike developed by students from Delft University of
Technology and VU University Amsterdam.
This set a new world record, making him the world's fastest cyclist travelling
0.6 kph faster than the previous record holder, Canadian Sam Wittingham.
In addition to Sebastiaan's record-breaking speed,
another cyclist in the Delft/Amsterdam team, Wil Baselmans secured third place
in the world record ranking with a speed of 127.43 kph, just behind Bowier and
Wittingham.
The speeds were achieved on a 200 metre stretch of road, with a run-up of 8 km
across a totally straight route in the Nevada desert, US.
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