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Skateboarder Diego Poncelet sets world speed record at 151.83 km/h

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Spanish skateboarder Diego Poncelet has set a new world speed record on a skateboard, reaching 151.83 km/h during a downhill run in Canada. The record was set on September 22 on the Route des Éboulements in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, the same road where the previous record had been established. Guinness World Records confirmed the new mark on October 15. On his first day of attempts, the 27-year-old athlete had already surpassed the world record with a speed of 146.88 km/h, but he was convinced he could go faster. Poncelet waited five days for the winds to die down and conditions to improve, then clocked 149.67 km/h and finally 151.83 km/h. “I never truly admitted to myself that my real goal was to reach 150 km/h. I was afraid it wouldn’t be possible,” Poncelet said, as quoted by O Globo. The Red Bull-sponsored athlete travels with a Buddhist monk he calls his guru, and El País reports that engineering and his mentor’s help were key to the feat. Poncelet said he wanted to “feel something no one had ever felt.”

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Publication timeline

  1. · Channel NewsAsia (outlet profile)

    Skateboarding-On the road again: Spain's Poncelet sets world speed record

  2. · El País (outlet profile)

    Diego Poncelet, el español que viaja con un monje budista, récord Guinness a más de 150 km/h sobre un monopatín: “Quería sentir algo que nadie hubiera sentido”. El atleta mallorquín pone en 151,83 km/h la marca históric…

  3. · O Globo (outlet profile)

    Skatista espanhol bate recorde mundial de velocidade em descida a 151,83 km/h; vídeo. O espanhol Diego Poncelet, de 27 anos, estabeleceu um novo recorde mundial de velocidade no skate downhill ao atingir 151,83 km/h dur…

  4. · La Vanguardia (outlet profile)

    Récord Guinness: Diego Poncelet alcanza una velocidad de 151,83 km/h sobre un skate. En su primer intento, Poncelet ya logró registrar 146,88 km/h, una velocidad suficiente para batir el récord

  5. · ANSA Sport (outlet profile)

    Diego Poncelet è lo skateboarder più veloce della storia. L'atleta Red Bull ha stabilito un nuovo Guinness World Record™ raggiungendo i 151,83 km/h

Factual core

  • Diego Poncelet set a Guinness World Record by reaching a speed of 151.83 km/h on a skateboard.
  • The previous skateboard speed record was surpassed by Poncelet's run.

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