Records
Antoine Albeau is the current record holder with a speed of 52.02 knots (90.91 km/h or 56.49 mph) over a 500 metre course at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (France) on 5 March 2008.
The previous record holder is Finian Maynard having reached an average speed of 48.70 knots (25.05 m/s or 56.05 mph) over the same distance at the same location, on 10 April 2005. This exceeded his previous record of 46.82 knots (24.08 m/s or 53.88 mph) set on the 13 November 2004 at the same venue.
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