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Cat Dixon and Raz Marsden (proper) cycled via 25 international locations
Two girls have damaged the world file for the quickest time circumnavigating the globe on a tandem bicycle.
Cat Dixon, 54, and Raz Marsden, 55, achieved the feat in 263 days, beating the earlier file of 281 days.
They set out from Oxford final June, ending in March shortly earlier than the coronavirus lockdown.
Their achievement has been confirmed as a part of the launch of Guinness World Records Day.
The pair lined 18,263 miles (29,391 km) in exactly 263 days, eight hours and 7 minutes, on a route that took them via 25 international locations.
Throughout their journey, which included flights the place crossings have been unimaginable, they confronted a heatwave throughout Europe, monsoons in Asia, and the Australian bush fires.
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They described their record-breaking journey because the “journey of a lifetime”
The journey then grew to become a race towards time as they boarded one of many final ferries to the UK on the day the journey ban began.
The earlier file was set by UK cyclists Edward Collier and Louis Paul Snellgrove final Could.
Ms Dixon, a lawyer from Yorkshire, and Ms Marsden, a Motor Neurone Illness nurse marketing consultant at Oxford College Hospitals, have raised greater than £40,000 for charity.
In a joint assertion they stated: “The expertise was unimaginable and definitely not with out its challenges – most notably racing to make it residence as borders closed behind us because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Setting the world file actually was the journey of a lifetime and we hope that it’ll encourage others to consider that something is feasible when you comply with your goals.”
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The pair confronted heatwaves and bushfires on their lengthy journey
India The record-breaking route
- UK
- France
- Monaco
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Croatia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Montenegro
- Albania
- North Macedonia
- Greece
- Turkey
- Georgia
- India
- Myanmar
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Australia
- New Zealand
- USA
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Spain
- Gibraltar
- UK
Craig Glenday, Guinness World Data editor in chief, stated: “I used to be thrilled to listen to that they’d smashed not simply the ladies’s title however the general round-the-world file.”
He stated their “high-spirited story of willpower, ambition and friendship has been a tonic in these troubled instances”.
