Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

Molly S. Van Houweling at a Creative Commons board meeting in 2008
Personal information
Full name	Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Born	(1973-01-03) 3 January 1973 (age 48)  United States
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time Triallist
Amateur teams
<=2007	JL Velo Cycling Team
2007–2013	Metromint Cycling

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling pictured after her UCI hour record setting ride on 12 September 2015.

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (born March 1, 1973) is an American cyclist, academic and legal scholar. Van Houweling is Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law and serves as the chair of the board of Creative Commons.^[1] Van Houweling is also on the board of Authors Alliance a non-profit organization that helps authors disseminate their work broadly.^[2] She received her J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1998. After law school she clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then in 2000-2001 for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was previously on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School before moving to UC Berkeley.^[3]

In addition to her work as a legal academic and copyright activist, Shaffer Van Houweling is also a competitive bicycle racer. On September 12, 2015 she set a new Hour record by cycling 46.273 km in an hour.^[4] Van Houweling is also a six-time UCI Amateur Road World Champion, most recently winning the time trial titles at the 2018 UCI World Cycling Tour Final in Varese, Italy.

Palmares[]

2019

National Track Championships

1st Individual Pursuit ^[5]

UCI Hour record attempts[]

Date	Location	Distance (km)	Difference to record (m)[N 1]	Notes
December 2014	Carson, CA,  United States	44.173	1892 (+)	New national record. Beat Carolyn Donnellys 44.028 km distance set in 1990.[6]
February 2015	Aguascalientes,  Mexico	45.637	698 (+)	New national record.[7]
7 July 2015	Aguascalientes,  Mexico	46.088	23 (-)	New national record. This attempt also beat the previous UCI hour record of 46.065 km but as Van Houweling was not part of the athletes biological passport programme the attempt did not count.[8][9]
12 September 2015	Aguascalientes,  Mexico	46.273	208 (-)	Beat the 12-year-old record held by Dutchwoman Leontien van Moorsel. Note, Van Moorsel road a 'Merckx-style' bike.[4]

UCI Masters Hour Best Performance attempts[]

Date	Location	Distance (km)	Difference to record (m)[N 2]	Notes
15 July 2017	Aguascalientes,  Mexico	47.061	973 (+)	New national record and world best performance for Women 40-44, exceeding Van Houweling's own W40-44 record set on 7 July 2015.
24 September 2018	Aguascalientes,  Mexico	46.897	5,658 (-)	New national record and world best performance for Women 45-49, exceeding Lillian Pfluke's W45-49 US and World record set in of 41.239 set in Manchester, England in 2006.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Molly Shaffer Van Houweling.

• Molly VAN HOUWELING at CQ Ranking
• Molly Van Houweling at Cycling Archives
• Molly Van Houweling at ProCyclingStats