VIDEO: Finnish athlete breaks the world record of wakeboarding
Finnish wakeboarder makes a world record with a consecutive run of over 10 hours, despite falling down after 4 hours
How about attempting a world record in water sports just days after the ice has melted in the Baltic Sea? And if that wasn’t grueling enough, imagine holding on to a wakeboarding cable for over 10 consecutive hours after falling down into the icy water almost half way to a new world record. This is what happened in Finland a few weeks ago.
Erkka Lehtonen, a Finnish water sports professional and entrepreneur, set a new world record of 10 hours and 15 minutes in cable