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Thu., Sept. 23, 2010

Liberty Lake skateboarder sets world record

Cohl Orebaugh, 14, practices skateboarding on the half-pipe at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake Sept. 8, before he went on to set a world record. (Jesse Tinsley)

Cohl Orebaugh, 14, practices skateboarding on the half-pipe at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake Sept. 8, before he went on to set a world record.

Cohl Orebaugh, a 14-year-old skateboarder from Liberty Lake, set a world record Saturday for blunts and fakies accomplished in an hour.

“I thought I did pretty good,” he said.

Orebaugh said he exceeded his expectations when he completed 794 blunts and fakies in an hour at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake. He expected to do around 500 of them. Read more. Lisa Leinberger,SR

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Posted Sept. 23, 2010, 2:45 p.m.

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