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Place of Birth: Skåne County, Sweden
About Tillie Anderson
- Tillie Anderson (April 23, 1875 – April 29, 1965) was a road and track cyclist.
- Tillie, a Swedish immigrant and, from all accounts, an extremely strong-willed individual, outpaced the best of the best on the wheel, with times that are still impressive today.
- Born in Skåne, Sweden in 1875, Tillie emigrated to Chicago in 1891 at the age of 16.
- At 18, she had saved enough money working as a seamstress to buy her first bicycle.
- During the summer of 1895, she took part in the race over the Elgin-Aurora (Ill.) century course and broke the century record.
- She later traveled around the country taking part in six-day bicycle races for women, which involved racing at top speed two hours each evening for six consecutive days.
- Tillie was 20 years old when the League of American Wheelmen recognized her as the best woman cyclist in the world.
- In June 2000 - 105 years later - Tillie was posthumously inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame , an undisputed champion and a true pioneer in women's athletics.
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