September 26, 2018 (Tooele County, Utah) – On Sept. 19, American Denise Mueller-Korenek hit an average speed of 183.9 miles per hour on her bicycle at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats breaking the old record belonging to Dutchman Fred Rompelberg which has stood for a more than two decades.

The 45-year-old athlete pedalled a custom bicycle behind a draft vehicle that looked like a dragster to break the men’s motor-paced bicycle land-speed record of 167 miles per hour. Mueller-Korenek had already set the women’s record in 2016.

“It was a crazy wild ride to 183.9 mph, but so worth the sacrifice and years of focus on becoming the fastest human on a bicycle in the world,” Mueller-Korenek told the BBC. “We weren’t supposed to go more than 175.”

Mueller-Korenek, a mother of three, competed as a junior cyclist in her teens, finishing in the top three in national and world competitions on numerous occasions. She retired from competition when she was only 19 but returned to competition in 2009. She started training and working seriously on cycling speed records in 2012.

BBC report here.