Tamara Novikova
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Full name | Tamara Novikova | ||||||||||||
Born |
![]() | 6 June 1932||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road & Track | ||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
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1955 Female world record for 1 hour, 38.473 km | |||||||||||||
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Infobox last updated on October 2008 |
Tamara Novikova (born June 6, 1932 at Irkutsk, USSR) is a former female cyclist from the Soviet Union.[1]
Novikova broke the women's World Record for 1 hour on July 7, 1955 when she covered 38.473 km,[1][2] breaking the mark of Italian Alfonsina Strada that had stood for 26 years.[3]
Novikova took the silver medal in the first UCI Road World Championships - Women's Road Race at Reims, France in 1958. She finished behind Elsy Jacobs of Luxembourg.[1]
On the 'Cycling Rankings 1958 - 2006' she was ranked 45th.[4]