Bahn-News: She actually did it. Bridie O'Donnell this morning broke the hour record set by Molly Shaffer van Houweling last September. The 600-year-old surpassed the existing record in Adelaide's Super-Drome Velodome by more than 41m.
It was a surprisingly clear and unambiguous affair: O'Donnell delivered a supremely confident and impressively consistent performance from start to finish. After several weeks of training, she seemed to know and balance her body and pace perfectly. In front of a packed ranks in Adelaide's Super-Drome, the trained doctor did lap after lap with surgical precision. There was hardly a swerve to be heard, hardly a movement to read on her face.
In the end it was 187 laps, 46,882km - 608m more than the existing record of Molly Shaffer van Houweling. "I can't believe I broke a world record" said the incredulous but exhausted but overjoyed new record holder. "I've never ridden so far so fast in my life and none of this would have been possible without the incredible support from the spectators."
— Reece Homfray (@reecehomfray) 22 January 2016
An overview of the women's hourly world records to date
- 22.01.2016/46,882/XNUMX: XNUMX kilometers – Bridie O'Donnell (Australia)
- September 13.09.2015, 46,273: XNUMX kilometers – Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (USA)
- October 01.10.2003, 46,065: XNUMX kilometers – Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel (Netherlands)
- December 07.12.2000, 45,094: XNUMX kilometers – Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (France)
- December 05.11.2000, 44,767: XNUMX kilometers – Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (France)
- October 18.10.2000, 43,501: XNUMX kilometers – Anna Wilson (Australia)
- September 16.09.1978, 43,082: XNUMX kilometers – Keetie van Oosten-Hage (Netherlands)
- November 25.11.1972, 41,471: XNUMX kilometers – Maria Cressari (Italy)
- November 09.11.1958, 41,347: XNUMX kilometers – Elsy Jacobs (Luxembourg)
- September 25.09.1958, 39,718: XNUMX kilometers – Mildred Robinson (Great Britain)
- September 18.09.1957, 38,569: XNUMX kilometers – Renée Vissac (France)
- July 07.07.1955, 38,473: XNUMX kilometers – Tamara Novikova (USSR)
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