A bicycle enthusiast – Sarah Hammond

Sarah Hammond is from Melbourne, Australia. She is an endurance bike racer who in 2014 became the first woman to Everest by riding the equivalent of the height of Mount Everest in a 24-hour period and has won the Race to the Rock for 3 consecutive years.

She was associated with a local cycling group Hells 500 in Melbourne, Australia. The group also created the Everesting challenge. After her first Everest in 2014, one of her good friends Jesse Carlsson suggested her endurance would indicated a proficiency in the sport. In 2016, she entered her first endurance race, the 7,000 kilometer Trans Am Bike Race. She was the first woman to lead the race, and did so for over a week, before lost time due to a wrong turn left her in a sixth place finish.

She was associated with a local cycling group Hells 500 in Melbourne, Australia. The group also created the Everesting challenge. After her first Everest in 2014, one of her good friends Jesse Carlsson suggested her endurance would indicated a proficiency in the sport. In 2016, she entered her first endurance race, the 7,000 kilometer Trans Am Bike Race. She was the first woman to lead the race, and did so for over a week, before lost time due to a wrong turn left her in a sixth place finish.

Below article is written by Jesse Carlsson.

She was the first woman to “Everest” a mountain by bike. She did it by riding up Mount Buffalo eight times in 18 hours, notching up 9,031 meters of climbing along the way. Since then she’s completed a few more everesting missions, both on and off roads. In the late 2015, whe rode non-stop 800km from Melbourne to Adelaide in thirty-something hours. She doesn’t have the experience of her competitors but that could work in her favour. She’ll proven plenty of times that she’s tough enough to deal with the suffering that she’ll face along the way.

In 2016, Sarah joined the 2016 Trans Am bike race. She won the 2nd position at female group at 2016 Trans Am. Also she is the 6th position at 2016 Trans Am bike race. She spent 21 days and 7 hours and 34 minutes to complete Trans Am, starting from Astoria, Oregon and finishing about 6800km late on Yorktown, Virginia.

Australia's deadly bushfires sparked in September 2019 and have been blazing ever since. Sarah is now running an activity called “Bushfire fundraising raffle 2” to help. Below is the hyperlink for this activity. website

As Sarah said” It’s no secret what has happened to this beautiful country of ours right now. So many places I love to ride, and spend riding with friends has been burnt, or still burning. Every day that passes more areas are under threat. Like most people, the cycling community has been devastated by the destruction these fires have brought. The fires have decimated the natural environment many of us love to explore by bike...”, this bushfires did hurt lots of valuable and beautiful areas. Hope everyone support this and wish Australia can recover soon from this disaster.