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71-year-old parachutist from Penza was reiterated in Guinness Book of Records

14:48 | 07.09.2011 | Sport

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Penza, 7 September 2011. PenzaNews. 71-year-old parachutist from Penza Anatoly Osipov was reiterated in Guinness Book of Records, having made a jump from height of 1.5 thousand meters together with the group of veterans.

According to the Internet service "Penza-sport", parachutists set a world record on the most age group jump. Total age of 10 participants in sum is 655 years.

Anatoly Osipov was born in Penza on September, 7th, 1940. In 1973 he got a rank of honored master of parachuting of the USSR. He set more than 60 records of the USSR, Europe and world. He spent more than 7 thousand hours in air, 1000 hours under canopy and 100 hours in free falling. He has already made more than 15 400 parachute jumps.

Now Anatoly Osipov works as the instructor of Cheboksary aeroclub.

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