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On land, the speed record registered by a rider on a 200-meter flying start speed trial was 133.28 km/h (82.82 mph) by the Canadian Sam Whittingham riding the Varna Tempest, a streamliner recumbent bicycle in 2009, [19] at Battle Mountain, Nevada. His record has been surpassed by 0.5 km/h by Sebastiaan Bowier of the Netherlands in 2013 setting ...
Record Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place Ref Flying 200m time trial (sea level) 9.088 Harrie Lavreysen Netherlands 7 August 2024 Olympic Games: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [2] 250 m time trial (standing start) 16.949 Leigh Hoffman Australia 12 October 2022 World Championships: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [8] 250 m time trial ...
The highest speed officially recorded for any human-powered vehicle (HPV) on level ground and with calm winds and without external aids (such as motor pacing and wind-blocks, but including a defined amount of gravity assist) is 144.18 km/h (89.59 mph) set in 2016 by Todd Reichert in the Eta Speedbike, a streamlined recumbent bicycle. [12]
The time for the race was not only a record, it was the fastest 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles on dirt in history, 2:24 flat, breaking by more than two seconds the track and stakes record of 2:26 3 ⁄ 5 set 16 years earlier by Gallant Man. [77] Secretariat's record still stands as an American record on the dirt. [81]
A speed record is a world record for speed by a person, animal, or vehicle. The function of speed record is to record the speed of moving animate objects such as humans, animals or vehicles. The function of speed record is to record the speed of moving animate objects such as humans, animals or vehicles.
While Obree did not break the HPV land speed record, he did set a new record for a rider in the prone position. [31] The previous day, Obree had set a speed of 52.9 miles per hour (85.1 km/h), which was a record speed in the prone position on a two-wheeled HPV (the overall prone record being held by a trike). [32] [33]
Madison Hour Record Outdoor track, Vehicles: Fixed gear with aerobars 2023 46.7 Daniel Bigham: Men's Road Time Trial (TT) Bike Outdoor track, recorded on Strava. Vehicle: Trek Speed Concept 2015 44.749 Jetze Plat Men's Arm Powered Vehicle: Recumbent trike 2019 42.93 Lindy Hou & Toireasa Gallagher Women's Tandem open, Tandem paralympic
As of September 2018, she holds the world record for paced bicycle land speed [1] [2] and is considered "the fastest cyclist on earth". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She set the record on September 16, 2018, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, by traveling an average of 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) on a custom-built carbon KHS bicycle behind a custom-built ...