CYCLING RECORDS
SEVERAL BROKEN BY OPPERMAN. (Rec. October G, 8.35 p.m.) Melbourne, October 6. In an attempt to lower the existing record for twenty-four hours’ cycling, from Mount Gambier to Melbourne, a distance of 416 miles, Hubert Opperman succeeded in breakin" three world’s records by covering 416 miles in twentyfour hours he broke the existing world's professional unpaced record, and established an Australian and New Zealand record. He broke the Australian and New Zealand amateur record, and also surpassed the world’s amateur record. Apart from the twenty-four hour records, Opperman also established Australian and New Zealand and world’s professional unpaced records for twelve hours.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 11, 7 October 1927, Page 17
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104CYCLING RECORDS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 11, 7 October 1927, Page 17
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