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Fastest time to complete the Ultraman World Championships (male)

The fastest time to complete the course at the Ultraman World Championships is 21 hr 41 min 22 sec and was achieved by Holger Spiegel (Germany) in the 1998 Ultraman World Championships, Hawaii, United States, on 28 November 1998. The Ultraman World Championships is an annual event held in Hawaii since 1983. The Ultraman distances are 6.2 mile swim, 261.4 mile bike ride, 52.4 mile run.

Fastest time to complete the Three Poles challenge (male)

The shortest time taken to reach the three extreme points of the Earth: Mt Everest, the North Pole and the South Pole (also known as the Three Poles) is 1 yr 217 days, and was achieved by Adrian Hayes (UK). Mr Hayes summitted Mt Everest on 25 May 2006, reached the North Pole on 25 April 2007 (from Ward Hunt Island, Canada), and finally claimed the South Pole, journeying from the Hercules Inlet, on 28 December 2007 .

Fastest time to cycle the length of South America

Giampietro Marion (Italy) cycled the South American portion of the Pan-American Highway, starting in Chigorodo, Colombia and finishing in Ushuaia, Argentina, in a time of 59 days between 17 September and 15 November 2000. Chigorodo is the closest town (and road) geographically to the border with Panama, and is therefore a logical starting point for an attempt on the South American portion of the Pan-American highway.