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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY APRIL 30, 2003 News 10 Belgian wins Land Rover G4 Challenge, American Chris Perry finishes close second Moab, Utah, April 26 - Belgian fighter pilot Rudi Thoelen bested competitors from 15 other nations to win the first Land Rover 04 Challenge. Thoelen, 31, repelled, mountain hiked, kayaked, navigated and drove a course to ultidifficult mately claim the grand prize, a $71,200 Range Rover in the unique competition. The victory was narrow as Thoelen edged out the four top finalists from off-roa- d France, Arabia and Turkey. American Chris Perry, who works as a water park manager in Duhai, represented Arabia and narrowly missed winning event the grueling, month-long by seconds. The victory for the personable Belgian capped four weeks of offadventure racing, road driving in various Land on-an- d Rover models that covered more than 4,000 miles through four seasons on three continents. Reacting to the win, Thoelen petitors for their outstanding said, We got to drive four Land efforts, said Matthew Taylor, Rover vehicles in four weeks, on Land Rover managing director. three continents. This is an The Land Rover G4 Challenge a of and lifetime, began March 30 in New York experience since its theonly adventure com- City with a novel, k petition Ive ever entered, Im drive course set up on a to excited and of stretch It Broadway. proud extremely have represented my country. then spent a week traversing old snowy New England in Land The U.S. entrant, of Olson Rover Freelanders with the comVA, Nancy Arlington, one of only two females in the petitors using a variety of adevent, finished 15' having en- venture skills to accumulate countered a number of setbacks points at widely spread remote over the course of the competi- locations. From the U.S., the entire crew, tion. In Saturdays finale she was twice pitched out of her upward of 120 persons in total, small kayak while navigating moved to South Africa where the swift currents of the Colo- over five days, the competitors rado River, which cost her two drove Defenders from Cape Town southeast to Cape places in the final results. The inaugural Land Rover Agulhas, the southern most tip G4 Challenge, which combines of the African continent, then on urban and rural locales, was the to the spectacular coast of most ambitious undertaking of Kranshoek. From Africa it was its type in Land Rover history. off to the remote North West We congratulate all the com- - Australian outback where they spent the third wreek of the event, finishing in spectacular form, kayaking across Sydney Harbor, before driving Range Rovers on a specially constructed track built upon the worlds largest ocean barge. With the tension increasing, and the field of potential winners decreasing, the 16 competitors returned to American soil for the final cross Sixteen contestants participated in the Land Rover G4 Challenge, which country trek in Discoverys start- - covered four seasons on three continents, ending last Saturday in Moab. four-whe- el six-bloc- 29-ye- ar Sound Room Radio Shack Your Local Dealer For Largest Physical coverage area in Southern Utahl New Rates New High Quality Phones with Voice Activation and Full Speaker Phone Plans with Free Roaming & Free Long Distance starting at $35 Free Accessories with Diabetic Supplies at low or no cost to you delivered direct to your home. 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