Greetings from Unicon 22 in Austria!
Tomorrow, 10am 6th August (local time), Lisanne Boer (Netherlands) and Ken Looi *that’s me* (New Zealand) will be attempting the 24 Hour Unicycle world record. Lisanne is going for the women’s unlimited record while I’m attempting the 29 Standard record.
If you’re at Unicon, come down to give us some support. If you’re not at Unicon, we are looking to set up a live feed.
There is a Facebook event page where we will put updates/photos and video
Here is the live tracking link. We hope to set up a video feed as well:
Youtube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOlvD66qLN0
Facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JmZwnGket/
Good luck and hope it stays dry and cooler than it’s been!
Will pop by to cheer you both on at some point later on tomorrow.
Good luck to the both of you!
It’s almost 24h and they’re still spinning!!!
Five minutes!
Lisanne Boer has achieved the new women’s world record with a distance of 465.15 kilometers!
insane! And almost 400km on a non-geared 29 is also nothing to scoff at.
That is close, but not exactly correct. I saw that number too on the live stream, but it stems from a random crossing of the chip timing mat after the 24 hours were done. By my calculation, the correct distance is about 464.4 kilometers. Which is still outright amazing!
Note that the authority on both the correct distance and the official recognition of the world record is the IUF, specifically the IUF World Record Committee. I’m pretty sure they haven’t issued an official statement yet.
Indeed, but there is also the IUF partial lap calculation to add in there
Of course. Without the partial lap, so only counting 1079 full laps, the distance is 464.29 km. The partial lap, if my calculation is correct, amounts to about 0.11 km extra.
I just noticed that the “random” passage number 1081 has been removed from the online data at UNICON22 - World Record Attempts, 2026-08-06/2026-08-07 : : my.race|result. With it, the incorrect distance of 465.1543 km is gone. 1080 is now the last passage, which is appropriate.