Cycling Time Trial Helmet
date: label: used date
content: 2010
name: label: wearer
content: Hammer, Sarah
notes: label: Description
content: This cycling time trial helmet was used throughout the 2010 season by American track cycling World Champion Sarah Hammer (b. 1983) when she competed in the individual pursuit, team pursuit, and other time trial events. Sarah Hammer is a five-time World Champion (2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013) and as of 2013, is a world record holder in a track cycling event called the individual pursuit.
label: Description
content: Manufactured by Uvex, the unique teardrop shape of the time trial helmet is designed for aerodynamic efficiency. In cycling, time trials can be raced on flat, rolling, or mountainous terrain. Time trials can be competed individually, as a team, or on an oval cycling track, also called a velodrome. In the individual pursuit, two riders start from stationary positions at opposite sides of an oval cycling track, also called a velodrome, and race against each other for a distance of 4 kilometers for men and 3 kilometers for women. Regardless of the format or terrain, a time trial is a test of a rider’s effort against the clock.
label: Description
content: When riding an individual time trial, a rider is not allowed to benefit aerodynamically by drafting behind other cyclists or vehicles. Because an individual cyclist riding solo will spend much more energy overcoming the effects of drag, aerodynamic helmets, clothing, bicycles, and deep-rimmed or disc wheels are frequently used in time trial events in order to gain an advantage and better time over competitors.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Cycling
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Bicycling
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0212.03
label: accession number
content: 2012.0212
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0212.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cycling time trial helmet
label: Object Name
content: helmet, cycling time trial
label: Object Name
content: time trial helmet, cycling
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: styrofoam (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 41.91 cm