Put your hand out of your car window at 100kph – feels fast, right? Now imagine you’re doing that while standing on top of a windsurf board.
One person in the world doesn’t have to guess what it feels like. On Thursday, November 18, in Namibia, legendary windsurfer Björn Dunkerbeck broke that speed barrier, hitting 103.67kph over a two-second time gap – and holding an average speed of 101kph over a 100m stretch of water!
Dunkerbeck’s first speed record is now almost 30 years old – back in 1992, he hit 43.30 knots (80.1kph) … More
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