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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 registered distance record behind pacers was by Frederick Lindley Dodds [23] of Britain, who on a solid-tired bicycle rode close to 16 miles (26 km) in the grounds of Cambridge University in 1876 [24] during a 20-mile scratch race. A south London rider, J. W. Stocks, set an unbeaten British record of 32 miles 1,086 yards (52.492 km ...
Professional single-day race distances may be as long as 180 miles (290 km). [6] Courses may run from place to place or comprise one or more laps of a circuit; some courses combine both, i.e., taking the riders from a starting place and then finishing with several laps of a circuit (usually to ensure a good spectacle for spectators at the ...
Any bike race or ride longer than a century ride, which is 100 miles (160 km), is sometimes considered to be ultra-distance cycling. However, such events are relatively common, so using a longer distance to define the category is more useful, such as any race or ride that is longer than 200 kilometres (120 mi), 300 kilometres (190 mi) or even a ...
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 ...
The Montezuma's Revenge was a 24-hour ultra-endurance mountain bike wilderness race held in Colorado each August from 1986 until 2006. Competitors were required to climb a 14,272-foot (4,350 m) mountain-Gray's Peak. The course varied from year to year but was always extremely demanding.
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The Three Peaks Bike Race is an ultra-distance bike race that has been held yearly since 2018. It starts in Vienna and crosses the Alps and, every other year, the Pyrenees. The finish alternates yearly between Nice and Barcelona. The participants have to reach three Mountain peaks or passes named by the race organizers. They have to plan and ...