Year endurance world record (cycling)
The annual endurance world record was announced in 1911 by the English cycling magazine Cycling Weekly . The award should be given to the cyclist who has covered the longest distance by bike in one year. The first record holder was Frenchman Marcel Planes in 1911 , who covered 34,666 miles (55,790 kilometers) in one year. The Englishman Tommy Godwin held this record longest . It was only after 77 years that the record was improved in 2016 by the American Kurt Searvogel, who was almost simultaneously in competition with the Englishman Steven Abraham. A year later, Searvogel lost this record again to Amanda Coker, who was personally encouraged by him and who covered 86,573 mi (139,326 km).
| year | driver | country | distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Marcel Planes |
 France
|
34,666 mi (55,790 km) |
| 1932 | Arthur Humbles |
 United Kingdom
|
36,007 mi (57,948 km) |
| 1933 | Ossie Nicholson |
 Australia
|
43,966 mi (70,756 km) |
| 1936 | Walter Greaves |
United Kingdom
|
45,383 mi (73,037 km) |
| 1937 | Bernard Bennett |
United Kingdom
|
45,801 mi (73,710 km) |
| 1937 | René Menzies |
France
|
61,561 mi (99,073 km) |
| 1937 | Ossie Nicholson |
Australia
|
62,657 mi (100,837 km) |
| 1939 | Bernard Bennett |
United Kingdom
|
65,127 mi (104,812 km) |
| 1939 | Tommy Godwin |
United Kingdom
|
75,065 mi (120,805 km) |
| 2016 | Kurt Searvogel |
 United States
|
76,076 mi (122,432 km) |
| 2017 | Amanda Coker |
United States
|
86,573 mi (139,326 km) |
Tommy Godwin's record drive is known to have a sealed mileage counter on his bike. He had to document his daily journeys in writing and have these records signed by witnesses. In addition, referees were posted at certain points to check whether he actually passed there.
In 1972, the English cyclist Ken Webb made another record attempt and said he had cycled 80,647 miles in one year. The record was then included in the Guinness Book of Records , but deleted after a year because there were doubts about Webb's information. Since then, the record has not been advertised by the Book of Records because it was too "dangerous".
In 1937, the English cyclist Billie Fleming set an annual endurance world record for women over 47,642.5 kilometers (29,603.7 miles), which is still in place (as of 2015) .
In 2016, the American Kurt Searvogel broke the Tommy Godwin brand with the latest technology and the help of his wife. He was also occasionally accompanied by other cyclists. Driving in the slipstream is allowed. On January 4, 2016, he equalized Godwin's 120,805 kilometers before the end of the year and then set a new record of 122,432 kilometers. His English competitor Steven Abraham, who started nine days before him, had to abandon his first record attempt after an accident.
Amanda Coker also accompanied Kurt Searvogel at times and was encouraged by him to attack the women's record. But this in turn pulverized Searvogel's record 326 days after its start on May 15, 2016 and increased it to 86,573 miles (= 139,326 km) after 365 days on May 14, 2017. Having suffered from panic attacks since an accident in 2011, she drove most of the time on an eleven kilometer lap in Flatwoods Park in Tampa Bay. She then continued her daily drives to also attack the 77 year old 100,000 mile record set by Tommy Godwin. On July 11, 2017, it also reached this mark, improving the record from 500 to 423 days.
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- ↑ Dave Barter: Interview with Billie Fleming on her 100th birthday. In: Cycling Weekly. May 6, 2014, accessed October 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Bernd Steinle: Kurt Searvogel cycles as far as nobody before. In: FAZ.net . January 7, 2016, accessed April 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Sebastian Herrmann: 122,432 kilometers in one year - on a bike. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 10, 2016, accessed April 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Simon MacMichael: Steve Abraham back riding after driver knocks him off bike. In: road.cc. Farrelly Atkinson, December 17, 2017, accessed August 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Christian Brüngger: This woman drove 382 km every day for a year . In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 15, 2017, ISSN 1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on August 6, 2019]).
- ↑ Highest Annual Mileage (HAM'R). In: World UltraCycling Association. Retrieved August 6, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Chuck Blakeman: What Amanda Coker Just Did Rivals the Most Amazing Feats in Sports History. May 15, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .