Fred Rompelberg

Fred Rompelberg
	Fred Rompelberg in Amsterdam (1979)
To person
Date of birth	30th October 1945 (age 74)
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
End of career	2002
	Last updated: October 12, 2018

Fred Rompelberg (born October 30, 1945 in Maastricht ) is a former Dutch cyclist . He set eleven world records behind motor vehicles .

Athletic career

In 1971 Fred Rompelberg became a professional racing cyclist. Until the 1990s, he was mainly active as a stalker . In 1977 he became Dutch champion in this discipline behind pacemaker Norbert Koch . He then started at the Stayer World Championships and finished fifth behind Joop Stakenburg .

On October 3, 1995, the almost 50-year-old Rompelberg reached a speed of 268 km / h on the Bonneville Flats in the Great Salt Flats of Utah in the USA , driven behind a special dragster vehicle with a huge wind hood at the rear. This exceeded the world record set by the American John Howard in 1985 , who had achieved a speed of 245 km / h at the time. Between 1975 and 1995 he set a total of eleven world speed records behind motor vehicles. In 1988 he had a serious accident in one of these record attempts.

Fred Rompelberg has been organizing cycling holidays on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca since 1993 .

successes

1977

Dutch Champion - Standing Race (behind Norbert Koch )

Web links

Commons : Fred Rompelberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Fred Rompelberg in the Radsportseiten.net database

Fred Rompelberg in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

^ Leidse Courant , August 6, 1977, p. 9.
↑ Heden / Verleden - A hectic wieleravondje in de Galgenwaard. In: Nieuws030. April 14, 2015, accessed May 10, 2019 .
↑ Chris Boardman: Chris Boardman: The Biography of the Modern Bike. Hachette UK, 2015, ISBN 978-1-844-03847-3 , p. 84 ( limited preview in Google book search). This record was improved in September 2018 by the American Denise Mueller-Korenek with 295 km / h. [1]
↑ Fred Rompelberg world record, 268 km on the bike and more. In: fredrompelberg.com. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
↑ Biker's Record Attempt ends in near Disaster. In: deseretnews.com. October 16, 1988, accessed May 10, 2019 .
↑ Fietsvakantie Fred Rompelberg Mallorca Spanje, fiets whores. In: fredrompelberg.com. Retrieved May 10, 2019 (Dutch).

personal data
SURNAME	Rompelberg, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maastricht

[1] Leidse Courant , August 6, 1977, p. 9.

[nieuws03-030030-2] Heden / Verleden - A hectic wieleravondje in de Galgenwaard. In: Nieuws030. April 14, 2015, accessed May 10, 2019 .

[books-MWCuCAAAQBAJ-84-3] Chris Boardman: Chris Boardman: The Biography of the Modern Bike. Hachette UK, 2015, ISBN 978-1-844-03847-3 , p. 84 ( limited preview in Google book search). This record was improved in September 2018 by the American Denise Mueller-Korenek with 295 km / h. [1]

[fredromp-268-4] Fred Rompelberg world record, 268 km on the bike and more. In: fredrompelberg.com. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .

[deseretn-20862-5] Biker's Record Attempt ends in near Disaster. In: deseretnews.com. October 16, 1988, accessed May 10, 2019 .

[fredromp-Fietsvak-6] Fietsvakantie Fred Rompelberg Mallorca Spanje, fiets whores. In: fredrompelberg.com. Retrieved May 10, 2019 (Dutch).