Eileen Sheridan (18 October 1923 – 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.
In 1951, Hercules Cycle and Motor Company signed her for three years to break distance and place-to-place records. In 1954, she set a 12-hour record of 250 and a half miles and a 24-hour record of 446 and a half miles. She broke all 21 women’s records by wide margins and held all 21 W.R.R.A. records in 1955. Five of them have yet to be broken, including the 1954 London-Edinburgh record of 20h 11m 35s. Lynne Taylor broke her 1,000-mile record in 3 days and 1 hour in 2002.
Sheridan reduced Marguerite Wilson’s record for Land’s End to John o’ Groats, from the southwestern tip of England to John o’Groats (the northernmost part of mainland Scotland actually being Dunnet Head), to 2 days, 11 hours, and 7 minutes in June 1954. She rode the first 470 miles to Carlisle without stopping, only stopping to attach lights and change into wet weather gear when it began to rain. The rain and high winds slowed her progress through the Scottish Borders.
Despite this, her time was more than 11 hours faster than Wilson’s professional record and just under seven hours faster than the amateur record set by fellow Coventry native Edith Atkins the previous year. Sheridan took a short break after reaching John O’Groats and then continued riding, as Hercules wanted her to set a new 1,000-mile record as well. She finished the 1,000 miles in three days and one hour, smashing the women’s record and finishing two hours and twenty minutes behind the record men’s time.
Eileen Sheridan (Cyclist) Husband: Who is Ken Sheridan?
She married Ken Sheridan and had a son with him. they are content together