Lithuania's "iron man" announces new challenge

  • 1999-08-12
VILNIUS (BNS) - After finishing an ecological journey down the Nemunas River the world's ultra triathlon champion, Vidmantas Urbo-nas, announced he plans to improve his own world record.Urbonas told a BNS correspondent that he was planning to make a trip around the Baltic Sea next June, of which he would swim 80 kilometers, the next 3,780 kilometers he would do on a bicycle, and the remaining 886 kilometers he would run. "I will try to manage 21 classical triathlons. I will do the swimming on Lithuanian territory and I will use ferry-boats crossing over to the Baltic Sea countries when cycl...
 
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