Denise Mueller-Korenek
Awards & Honours
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Awards Won
2
Honours
4
Records
The record book entry is the whole of it, and it is enough. Mueller-Korenek holds the outright paced bicycle land speed record at 183.932 mph, a mark that had belonged to Fred Rompelberg since 1995 and that traces its lineage to 1899. What makes her entry distinctive is not just the number but the category: she is the first and only woman to hold the overall record rather than a separate women's mark. She was 45 when she set it, after stepping away from competitive cycling for years and returning to a discipline with almost no women in it. The 2016 women's record at 147.7 mph was the stepping stone, and the 2018 run cleared the previous outright mark by nearly 17 mph.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Guinness World Record, fastest bicycle speed paced
Ratified at 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) following the September 16, 2018 run at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Guinness World Record, fastest women's paced bicycle speed
Set at 147.7 mph (237.7 km/h) at Bonneville, the first women's mark in the discipline.
Records & Feats
Fastest speed ever recorded on a bicycle
Averaged 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, the highest figure ever ratified in paced bicycle land speed.
First and only woman to hold the outright paced bicycle land speed record
The record dates to 1899; no woman had held the overall mark before her 2018 run.
First women's paced bicycle land speed record
Set the inaugural women's mark at 147.7 mph (237.7 km/h) at Bonneville.
Largest margin over the previous outright record in the modern era
Her 183.932 mph cleared Fred Rompelberg's 1995 mark of 167 mph by nearly 17 mph.