Kiwi sets new 24-hour record on Sea-Doo PWC

7:01 AM Tue 15 Feb 2011 GMT

'Jeremy Burfoot in action on the Sea-Doo on his way to setting a new world record of 2,287km covered in 24 hours' Dan Mickleson Click Here to view large photo

Riding a stock-standard Sea-Doo GTX Ltd iS personal watercraft (PWC or jet-ski) New Zealander Jeremy Burfoot has established a new world record for the distance covered in a 24-hour period. Burfoot, from Torbay in Auckland, covered a distance of 2,287 km (1,421 miles) during his record-breaking achievement on Lake Karapiro, a man-made lake on the Waikato River southeast of the town of Cambridge. This compares to the 2009 record of 1,641 km (1,019 miles) set by Croatian Ivan Otulic ? also on a Sea-Doo GTX iS PWC. Burfoot says his record is still to be ratified by Guinness World Records, ...

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