Talk:Beryl Burton

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Record-breaker - "In 1967, she set a new 12-hour time trial record of 277.25 miles – a mark that also surpassed the men’s record of the time by 5.75 miles." I suspect that this achievement, of a woman beating a men's record in a sport requiring physical strength and endurance, is unique. If anyone can confirm this then I think more emphasis should be put on this incredible feat. EdX20 00:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Long distance endurance actually lends itself to females. Females have set records for ridiculously long runs (theories about more fat or bodies are better at endurance than speed), however it is definitely more unusual/rare for the middle distance endurance events. It's an incredible achievement and I don't know of anyone else of a similar achievement90.252.237.181 (talk) 10:28, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Death
From what I remember of press accounts at the time, I was not aware that her cause of death was ever actually determined. She collapsed during a training ride; is the heart-failure cause in the article a conjecture or extrapolation, or was I misinformed? - JThorstensen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.170.26.68 (talk) 21:21, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

World Championship Medals
Beryl Burton says in her autobiography that she won 15 world championship medals, but is often reported wrongly as winning 14.

After moving house her husband was checking that all the medals were present: "Casually he began to count them and was surprised that there were fifteen. Like me, he had never consciously looked back over my career to keep a 'score', but did expect to find fourteen medals."

She concludes: "We were perplexed by this until we went through the years, carefully recalling each 'world' win and comparing this with what the records stated, arriving at a total of fifteen. The medal which has, somehow, not been credited to me, is the bronze ride at Varese, the story of which I have just recounted. On that occassion the bronze medal in the women's sprint was taken by the Czech girl Zajickova. For some reason her name is printed again in the record of the women's pursuit. Somebody made an error at the time and it has been repeated ever since without question." — Preceding unsigned comment added by R c a d (talk • contribs) 18:43, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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References to daughter, Denise
The three references to her daughter aren't consistent. S C Cheese (talk) 18:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)