Fred Rompelberg

Fred Rompelberg ( born October 30, 1945 in Maastricht) is a Dutch racing cyclist.

Rompelberg is known primarily as a cyclist, who set eleven world records behind motor vehicles. It took him eight years to realize the absolute speed record on a bicycle. On 3 October 1995 he reached, then already almost 50 years old, on the Bonneville Flats in the Great Salt Desert of Utah in the USA a speed of 268.831 km / h, driven behind a dragster special vehicle with a huge cowl at the rear. This record is still valid today and is the records noted in the Guinness Book. It topped the existing 1985 world record by the American John Howard, who had then attained a speed of 245 km / h ( 152.284 mph ).

Rompelberg 1965 racing cyclist, professional cyclist in 1971 and has now received its 37th consecutive professional license, which he considered today as the oldest active professional cyclists in the world. From the 1970s until the 1990s in the South Limburg was mainly active as a stayer, improved several times the upright record behind heavy engines, but was once only Dutch cycling champion (1977).

Fred Rompelberg is married to Tiny Rompelberg and the couple have two daughters. Since 1993 the Dutch organized together with his wife cycling holidays in Mallorca. Rompel composer's daughter Letizia also received an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, after they qualified as the youngest participant attained the age of three years and 59 days, a swimming diploma in 1987.