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[10] 3000 m individual pursuit (progression) 3:24.537 Sarah Ulmer New Zealand: 22 August 2004 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [8] 3000 m team pursuit* (progression) ♦3:14.051 Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell Great Britain: 4 August 2012 2012 Olympic Games: London, Great Britain [8] 4000 m team pursuit* (progression) ♦4:04.242 ...
The first recorded distance [2] was set in 1873 by James Moore in Wolverhampton, riding an Ariel 49" high wheel (1.2 m) bicycle; however, the distance was recorded at exactly 14.5 miles (23.3 km), leading to the theory that the distance was just approximated and not accurately measured.
Chris Boardman's UCI Absolute (formerly known as Best Human effort) Hour record of 56.375 km (35.03 miles) has now been bettered twice by a rider on an unfaired recumbent bicycle, without a streamlined enclosure. Frenchman, Aurelien Bonneteau rode 56.696 km (35.229 miles) on July 16, 2014, and previously 56.597 km (35.168 miles) on May 25, 2012.
WUCA record holder Amanda Coker rode 8,012.4 miles (12,894.7 km) in April 2017. [84] [85] Guinness World Record holder Janet Davison rode 4,010 miles (6,450 km) between 24 July and 22 August 2015. [86] WUCA male record holder Steven Abraham rode 7,104.3 miles (11,433.3 km) between 2 September and 1 October 2016. [84]
It was the world's first long-distance road race and also won by Moore, who took 10 hours and 25 minutes to cover 134 km. The runners-up were the Count André Castéra, who had come second to Moore at St-Cloud, and Jean Bobillier, riding a farm bike that weighed 35 kg.
The men's road race was first held at the 1896, was not held again for 40 years, then has been held every Summer Games since the 1936 Summer Olympics. The women's event was first contested at the 1984 Summer Olympics , being the first women's cycling event (track events were added in 1988).
In the first, Myers beat George 1: 56 + 3 ⁄ 5 to 1:57 in the 880 yards. The next week, George led all the way in defeating his rival 4: 21 + 2 ⁄ 5 to 4: 27 + 3 ⁄ 5 in the mile. In the final 3/4 mile showdown, 60,000 watched George and Myers battle on a cold day on a bad track.
The Leadville Trail 100 MTB is the second oldest of the well-known 100-mile (160 km) marathon mountain bike races held in the United States, the oldest being the Wilderness 101 in central Pennsylvania. The Leadville Trail 100 MTB was first run in 1994 and has become one of the best marketed, attended and known marathon events in mountain bike ...