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HUBERT OPPERMAN’S SUCCESS. SEVERAL RECORDS SHATTERED. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) MELBOURNE. October 6. (Received Oct. 6, at 9 mm.) In an attempt to lower the existing record for 24 hours’ cycling from Mount, Gambler to Melbourne, a distance of 416 miles, Hubert Oppcrman succeeded in breaking three world's records. By covering 416 miles in 24 hours h e broke the existing world's professional unpaced record and established an Australian and New Zealand record. Ho broke the Australian and New Zealand amateur record, and also surpassed the world’s amateur record. Apart from the 24-hour records. Opperrnan also established Australian, New Zealand, and world’s professional unpaced records for 12 hours.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 9
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