Eileen Sheridan, who was born on October 18, 1923, and died in February 2023, was an English cyclist who specialized in time trials and breaking road records. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she broke every Women’s Road Records Association record. They included Lilian Dredge’s Land’s End to John o’ Groats. Eileen has lived in Isleworth, Middlesex, with her family since 1952.
Eileen Sheridan, who stood 4 ft 11in tall as an adult and was described as “a dainty lady” by historian Bernard Thompson, was an athletic girl at school in Coventry. Cycling dominated other sports when she was 15 years old, and she joined the Coventry Cycling Club in 1944. She went touring and joined club rides there, but she wasn’t interested in racing. She stated: “It is on club runs that the club spirit if it exists at all, is discovered and preserved for all time. The Coventry club runs are among the happiest times in my life.” In mid-1940, she rode her first race, an informal 10-mile time trial, and finished in 28m 30s, “to the great amazement of both the club and myself.”
She had planned to race formally that summer, but the event she had entered was canceled. She began racing instead in 1945. Her first race was a 25-mile time trial hosted by the Birmingham Time Trial Association, and she was seeded first. She hoped to ride 1h 15m but finished in 1h 13m 34s, breaking her club’s record and winning the event.
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She married Ken Sheridan and gave birth to their son, Clive, in April 1946.