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Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27] [28] [29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds 15 August 1995 16 August 1995 Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.
Third runner to successfully run around the world. Having run 50,000 km, he holds the record for the longest world run according to the World Runners Association guidelines. Mangan is the third person to be inducted into the WRA membership. [citation needed] Date Oct. 25, 2010 – Oct. 27, 2014 Duration 4 years, 3 days Distance
Robert Garside (born 6 January 1967), calling himself The Runningman, is a British runner who is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world. Garside began his record-setting run following two aborted attempts from Cape Town , South Africa and London , England .
The World Runners Association (WRA) is a small group of ultra-runners which aims to provide a consistent set of rules for athletes attempting to complete a pedestrian circumnavigation, as well as to ratify and record attempts completed as per these rules.
Dave Kunst (born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth. [1] The walk was intended to be achieved along with his brother John, but during the event John was shot and killed by bandits, and Dave wounded; Dave resumed and completed the walk with another brother, Peter.
Tom Denniss (born 24 February 1961 [1]) is an Australian athlete, inventor, scientist, and entrepreneur.A Doctor of Mathematics and Oceanography, he invented a technology to convert energy in ocean waves into electricity, [2] also played professional rugby league, was a finalist in the Australian of the Year Award, [1] and in 2013 set a new world record for the Fastest Circumnavigation of the ...
The sport parameter is optional; if present, it changes the link to [[List of world records in sport]] instead of to the default World record article. For example {{WR|athletics}} results in a link to List of world records in athletics. For performances that equal an existing world record, set the named parameter eq to any non
Jesper Olsen, or Jesper Kenn Olsen, is a multiple national record holder ultra distance runner from Denmark, and was the second person verified to have run around the world (16,000 miles: 2004-2005), as well as the first verified to have run around the world in a north-south rather than east-west direction (25,000 miles: 2008-2010, 2011-2012, due to 6-month illness and injury).