CYCLING RECORD
ATTACK BY OPPERMAN The world's 24 hours’ cycling record will be attacked by Hubert Opperman to-day week, starting from Mount Gambier. South Australia. Opperman intends to ride to Melbourne and then along the main highway toward Sydney. going as far as he possibly can in the 24 hours. Opperman is in first-class form after a strenuous road season. Mrs. Valda Unthank, the Victorian woman endurance rider, is another who is contemplating record attempts. She will first attack the women’s 100 miles record hold by Miss D. Edney—6 hours 3 minutes—within the next fortnight, and then she will commence an attack on the women’s week's riding record recently established by Miss Joyce Barry in Sydney—llo7 miles. Mrs. Unthank will ride over a course which embraces St. Kilda road and Mordialloc and each round of the course is approximately 35 miles.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 3
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141CYCLING RECORD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 3
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