John Smith broke the record on Thursday going 172.4 km. He took
off at the popular tourist tandem paragliding site, Coronet, near Queenstown.

http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/855264

https://www.facebook.com/extremeair.queenstown

He worked the morning teaching students and then took off around
1pm.

http://www.doarama.com/view/2987?webglfail=1