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On 11 July 2017, 24-year-old Amanda Coker set a new "Fastest completion of 100,000 miles by bicycle record, doing so in 423 days. Coker's record improved by 77 days on Tommy Godwin's prior record of 500 days set in May 1940. The record was certified by the Guinness Book of Records and the Ultra Marathon Cycling Association (now the WUCA).
World Championships: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [8] 250 m time trial (standing start) (sea level) 16.949 Leigh Hoffman Australia 12 October 2022 World Championships: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [9] 1 km time trial (sea level) 57.321 Harrie Lavreysen Netherlands 18 October 2024 World Championships: Ballerup, Denmark [10]
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
After setting the new record, Coker continued cycling, seeking to break the record for the shortest time to cover 100,000 mi (160,934 km). For 77 years that record was held by Tommy Godwin , who set off in January 1939 and reached the 100,000 mi (160,934 km) mark in May 1940, after 500 days of cycling. [ 4 ]
This has now been verified by Guinness World Records and as such is the new woman's record. [34] Graham completed her attempt in October 2018 in a total of 124 days. She cycled the route solo and totally unsupported, often sleeping rough in drainage ditches or behind bushes.
That's the new world record for the fastest marathon time set by Dennis Kimetto in Berlin over the weekend. The Kenyan native became the first person to run 26.2 miles in less than 2 hours and 3 ...
Kelvin Kiptum set a world record in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 35 seconds to shatter fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge's old mark by 34 seconds. Sifan Hassan of the ...
Robert Marchand (26 November 1911 – 22 May 2021) was a French centenarian cyclist. He was the holder of the world record for cycling 100 km and for the distance cycled in one hour, in both the 100–104 and over-105 years old age categories.