German skier Christian Flühr, who has set 13 Guinness World Records, most of them for skiing, has announced he'll be setting a 14th world record next winter, to celebrate 25 years since he set his first one.
Flühr, from Germany's Feldkirchen-Westerham, now aged 50, set many of his records, subsequently broken by others, for endurance skiing, skiing downhill for as long and as far as possible, earning him the nicknames in Austrian and German media of "Bond on boards" or "0-0 skis" or simply "Mr Ski".
Although the details of what record Flühr will be attempting has yet to be announced, he has secured heavyweight support from Kitzbuhel's lift company, KitzSki. Board members Anton Bodner and Christian Wörister issued a statement to say,
"We are pleased that Christian Flühr has chosen our KitzSki ski area to set another world record. We will provide him with the best possible support with our entire team," said KitzSki board members.
Flühr will aim to set his new record in KitzSki in January 2025, a week after the famous Hahnenkamm race.
Flühr set his first world record in 1999 in Obertauern (December 14th - 17th) setting the world marathon skiing record by skiing for three days non-stop (68 hours and 23 minutes) covering the distance between America and Europe. One season later, in February 2001, Christian Flühr set the world record again by skiing for more than 4 days (103 hours and 21 minutes) non-stop. Later, he beat this world record several times but in other locations.
However by 2005 the record had grown to 202 hours and 1 minute, a record the still stands and was set by Australia's Nick Willey skiing at Thredbo, New South Wales, Australia between 2-10 September 2005. Altogether he skied down the slopes 916 times travelling over 1150km in the process.
Flühr's other records include skiing the most different lifts in one day, riding 60 different lifts within one day in Germany's Oberallgäu. He achieved his 13th and most recent world record a decade later in 2009.
"My first world record was exactly 25 years ago in the coming ski season. For the silver anniversary, it's basically my duty to get out on the skis again and set a new record," said Flühr, adding, "I'm looking forward to it and am firmly convinced that I'm going to achieve a new record. When I set my mind to something, I do it. That's how people know me."