John Howard (cyclist)

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Medal record
Competitor for the  United States
Road bicycle racing
Pan American Games
Gold	Cali 1971	Individual Road Race

John Howard (born August 16, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri) is an Olympic cyclist from the United States, who set a land speed record of 152.2 miles per hour (245 km/h) on pedal bicycle on July 20, 1985 on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.

A competitor at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, Howard won the gold medal in the 1971 Pan American Games road cycling race in Cali, Colombia, as a member of the U.S. Army cycling team by beating Luis Carlos Florez in a sprint finish. He is a former 4-time U.S. National Road Cycling champion (1968, 1972, 1973 and 1975) and won the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii.

[edit] External links

• 152 MPH Pedal Bicycle
• Ultracycling: Hall of Fame - John Howard
• Wielersite Profile

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