RECORDS SMASHED
BY GREAT CYCLIST
DOING 1000 MILE RIDE
MELBOURNE, May 24.
Hubert Opperman broke the world’s cycling 24-hour record of 6344 miles covering the distance in 16 hours 42 minutes 55 seconds. He also collected the world’s twelvehour outdoor, indoor and eighteenhour outdoor records.
Opperman is still riding and hopes to complete the thousand-mile ride ? to-night.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 6
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