UIM Aquabike World Championship.
Franky Zapata, Julie Bulteau and Valerio Calderoni made it two wins out of two to claim overall victories in their respective classes, Runabout, Ski Women’s F1 and Freestyle – to bring to a close a spectacular first ever weekend of UIM World Championship Aquabike racing in the Qatari capital Doha.
Jeremy Poret took his first win of the weekend in Ski Division F1 to add to his second place in heat one on Friday and take an early lead in  … Details
UIM Aquabike World Championship – Results for the opening heats of the Qatar Aquabike Grand Prix.Â
French riders dominated the opening heats of the Qatar Aquabike Grand Prix, winning three out of the four categories, with Franky Zapata coming from behind to win in Runabout, Jean-Baptiste Botti and Julie Bulteau leading from the flag to win their respective races in Ski F1 and Italian Valerio Calderoni turning it on to win the Freestyle event.Â
In women’s Ski F1, Julie Bulteau got her season off to the perfect start, topping the times in qualifying and storming to victory in her opening heat. ‘This is … More
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Aucklander Jeremy Burfoot appears to have a thing for spending a lot of time on a PWC (personal watercraft).
The 51-year-old Torbay man has already spent three weeks circumnavigating New Zealand on one and was also the bloke behind last year’s ambitious Ultimate Ride challenge (to travel from London to Auckland on a Sea-Doo).
He has now set a new world record  … Details & Pictures
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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  … Details
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