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Canadian skateboarder sets new world record for speeding down hill

Spain's Diego Poncelet reached 151.83 kilometres an hour on a closed Quebec road, beating a 2017 mark set there; he waited five days for calm wind.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Quebec's Charlevoix region, a skateboarder has set a world record, standing up, at one hundred fifty-one point eight three kilometres an hour, or ninety-four point three four miles an hour.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOur headline says Canadian skateboarder.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDiego Poncelet is a twenty-seven-year-old Spaniard, Guinness says.

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