2015 VEHICLE AND RIDER INFORMATION (version 19) | IHPVA RECORDS: http://www.ihpva.org/hpvarech.htm | ||||||||||||||
WHPSC World Human Powered Speed Challenge (WHPSC), Battle Mountain, Nevada, USA | REFERENCE: http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/fastest_list.asp | ||||||||||||||
Rider # | Vehicle Name | Year Built | Team Members / Designers / Builders | Rider Name (age in years) |
Rider Nationality | Category | New Rider or Veteran at Battle Mountain | 200
meters Flying Start Time Trial RIDER's PERSONAL BESTS |
Rider Rank on Fastest Ever Lists (legal wind or non-legal wind) | Previous Hat Awarded based on fastest legal wind speed | |||||
Comment | MPH | KPH | TIME (s) | Vehicle, Year Set | |||||||||||
1 | Eivie 4.2 | 2013-15 | Damjan Zabovnik, Gregor Veble | Damjan Zabovnik (40 years old) |
Slovenia | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | non-legal wind | 79.98 mph | 128.71 kph | 5.594 sec | Eivie IV, 2014 | 4th fastest | --- | |
unapproved helmet, legal wind | 77.15 mph | 124.16 kph | 5.799 sec | Eivie III, 2010 | 11th fastest | --- | |||||||||
legal wind | 75.56 mph | 121.60 kph | 5.921 sec | Eivie III, 2010 | 15th fastest | 75 mph hat | |||||||||
2 | Cygnus Chronos | 2014-15 | Team Cygnus, Thomas van Schaik, David Verbroekken, Jan-Marcel van Dijken, Jan van Steeg, Hans Wessels, Pieter Pas, Ing. Arjen van Noordenne | Jan-Marcel van Dijken
(45 years old) |
Netherlands | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | unofficial on-board video analysis, timing failure | 79.42 mph | 127.82 kph | 5.633 sec | Cygnus Beta, 2012 | 5th fastest | --- | |
legal wind | 78.23 mph | 125.90 kph | 5.719 sec | Cygnus Beta, 2013 | 7th fastest | 75 mph hat | |||||||||
3 | Eta | 2014-15 | Team AeroVelo - Todd Reichert, Cameron Robertson, Victor Ragulsia, Trefor Evans, Calvin Moes | Todd Reichert (33 years old) |
Canada | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 78.46 mph | 126.27 kph | 5.702 sec | Eta, 2014 | 6th fastest | 75 mph hat | |
4 | Eta Prime | 2015 | University of Toronto Human Powered Vehicle Design Team (HPVDT), Calvin Moes | Calvin Moes (23 years old) |
Canada | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 76.50 mph | 123.12 kph | 5.848 sec | Bluenose, 2013 | 13th fastest | 75 mph hat | |
5 | Sherry Shi (22 years old) |
Canada | Women's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | |||||||||
6 | *Varna Tempest | 2009 | Georgi Georgiev | *Barbara Buatois (37 years old) |
France | Women's Bicycle | Veteran | non-legal wind | 76.40 mph | 122.95 kph | 5.856 sec | Varna Tempest, 2010 | fastest female, 14th fastest overall | --- | |
legal wind | 75.69 mph | 121.81 kph | 5.911 sec | 75 mph hat | |||||||||||
7 | VeloX S2 | 2013 | Team Elan, David Wielemaker, Daniel Fenn, Hans van Vugt | Ellen van Vugt (45 years old) |
Netherlands | Women's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 70.82 mph | 113.98 kph | 6.317 sec | VeloX S2, 2014 | 2nd fastest
female, 26th overall |
70 mph hat | |
8 | Bowstring-4 (Тетива) | 2015 | Veniamin Ulyanovskiy | Vadim Dunaev | Russia | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | non-legal wind | 63.68 mph | 102.48 kph | 7.026 sec | Bowstring-3, 2014 | 55th fastest | --- | |
legal wind | 56.51 mph | 90.94 kph | 7.917 sec | 96th fastest | 55 mph hat | ||||||||||
9 | Alexey Kiristaev | Russia | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 63.12 mph | 101.58 kph | 7.088 sec | Bowstring-3, 2014 | 57th fastest | 60 mph hat | ||||
10 | Beagle | 2015 | Larry Lem | Larry Lem (45+ years old) |
USA | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind w multirider | 71.61 mph | 115.24 kph | 6.248 sec | Glowworm tandem, 2012 | 24th fastest | 70 mph hat | |
legal wind | 62.04 mph | 99.85 kph | 7.211 sec | Scimitar, 2009 | 60th fastest | see tandem best | |||||||||
11 | Tom
Amick (40+ years old) |
USA | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind w multirider | 73.08 mph | 117.61 kph | 6.122 sec | Glowworm tandem, 2012 | 19th fastest | 70 mph hat | ||||
non-legal wind | 57.82 mph | 93.05 kph | 7.738 sec | Flying Cucumber, 2011 | 95th fastest | --- | |||||||||
legal wind | 56.80 mph | 91.44 kph | 7.877 sec | 92nd fastest | see tandem best | ||||||||||
12 | Norus | 1999 | Gilles Poirier, Rob Wood, Don Smith, Mike Mowett, Thom & Charlie Ollinger | Mike Mowett (41 years old) |
USA | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 59.18 mph | 95.24 kph | 7.560 sec | Norus, 2013 | 80th fastest | 55 mph hat | |
---- | VeloX S1 | 2012 | Team GeeBee (Garrie Hill): David Wielemaker, Daniel Fenn, Hans van Vugt, Garrie Hill | Mike Mowett (41 years old) |
USA | Men's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 59.18 mph | 95.24 kph | 7.560 sec | Norus, 2013 | 80th fastest | 55 mph hat | |
13 | Florian Kowalik (16 years old) |
USA | Junior Men's Bicycle (Age 15 to 17 years) |
Veteran | legal wind | 55.12 mph | 88.71 kph | 8.116 sec | Norus, 2013 | 3rd fastest junior, 2nd fastest age 14 | 55 mph hat | ||||
14 | VeloX V | 2015 | Human Power Team Delft & Amsterdam (TU Delft University and VU Amsterdam University) | Robert Braam (40 years old) |
Netherlands | Men's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | ||||||
15 | Lieske Yntema (24 years old) |
Netherlands | Women's Bicycle | New Rider | non-legal wind, Dekra, low-altitude | 53.25 mph | 85.70 kph | 8.401 sec | VeloX IV, 2015 | 8th fastest female | None | ||||
16 | Seiran | 2015 | Team Ascension - Mark Anderson, Eric A. Ware, John Ware, Craig Borchard, David Wielemaker | Teagan Patterson (19 years old) |
USA | Women's Bicycle | Veteran | legal wind | 52.55 mph | 84.57 kph | 8.514 sec | Beluga, 2014 | 9th fastest female | 50 mph hat | |
17 | PulsaR | 2015 | Politecnico di Torino Student Team Policumbent, Paolo Baldissera, Andrea Gallo, Marcello Renna | Andrea
Gallo (28 years old) |
Italy | Men's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | ||||||
18 | ARION1 | 2015 | University of Liverpool Velocipede Team, Ben Hogan | Ken
Buckley (28 years old) |
England | Men's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | ||||||
19 | Dave Collins (29 years old PhD student) |
England | Men's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | |||||||||
20 | Natasha Morrison (37 years old) |
England | Women's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | |||||||||
--- | Completely Overzealous 2 (CO2) | 2014 | Team GeeBee (Garrie Hill): Gareth Hanks, Ben Goodall, Tri-Sled | Florian Kowalik (16 years old) |
USA | Junior
Men's Multitrack (Age 15 to 17 years) |
Veteran | See Rider Info Above | see above | ||||||
--- | Mike Mowett (41 years old) |
USA | Men's Multitrack | Veteran | See Rider Info Below | see above | |||||||||
--- | Ellen van Vugt (45 years old) |
Netherlands | Women's Multitrack | Veteran | See Rider Info Above | see above | |||||||||
21 | Jun Nogami (55 years old) |
Canada | Men's Multitrack | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | |||||||||
22 | Vortex | 2011 | University of Toronto Human Powered Vehicle Design Team (HPVDT) | Alan
Pettit (21 years old) |
Canada | Men's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | ||||||
23 | Thomas Ulph (21 years old) |
Canada | Men's Bicycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | None | |||||||||
24 | Micro-Moby | 1998 | Garrie Hill, Ray & Sherry Brick, Fran Kowalik | Genevieve Kowalik (10 years old) |
USA | Junior
Women's Bicycle (Age 11 & under years) |
New Rider | Unfaired
recumbent, low-altitude, velodrome |
26.55 mph | 42.73 kph | 16.849 sec | Gritters lowracer, 2015 | unranked | None | |
25 | Cecilia
Kowalik (12 years old) |
USA | Junior Women's Bicycle (Age 12 to 14 years) |
New Rider | Unfaired recumbent, low-altitude, velodrome |
24.11 mph | 38.81 kph | 18.553 sec | Sunset lowracer, 2015 | unranked | None | ||||
26 | Handcycle Project | 2015 | Plymouth University, Adam Kyte, Matthew Sharman, Rhys Parsons, Julian Seipp, Rick Preston and Neil Fewings | Liz McTernan | England | Women's Handcycle | New Rider | no Personal Best yet | ranked 8th in world for conventional hand-cycles | None | |||||
Unofficial document, pre-2015 event, subject to change. List by Mike Mowett, mowett@aol.com | *UNCONFIRMED RIDER | ||||||||||||||
Unable to attend in 2015 | |||||||||||||||
--- | Firefly 3 | 2015 | Team Schroeder, Don Schroeder, S&S Solutions llc, J. Morgan | James
Schroeder (age 46) |
USA | Men's Multitrack | Veteran | non-legal wind | 63.07 mph | 101.49 kph | 7.094 sec | Arrow Hawk, 2010 | 4th fastest multitrack | --- | |
legal wind | 61.53 mph | 99.02 kph | 7.271 sec | 6th fastest multitrack | 60 mph hat | ||||||||||