Based on the world record nomination from the Europe Records Institute (EURI) and Decision No. WK/USA.INDIA/1367/2025/No.821, World Records Union (WorldKings) officially declared Annie Londondery as the first woman to bicycle around the world.   

Annie Londonderry (born Annie Cohen Kopchovsky) was a Latvian-born American adventurer who became famous for completing a pioneering long-distance bicycle journey around the world in the 1890s. She is widely recognized as the first woman known to cycle around the world, at a time when long-distance travel—especially by women—was highly unconventional and socially restricted.

She began her journey on June 25, 1894, departing from Boston. Over the next 15 months, she traveled across the United States, then continued through Europe and Asia using a combination of cycling and steamship travel (which was typical for “around-the-world” journeys at the time). She returned to Boston on September 24, 1895, completing the trip within the agreed timeframe of 15 months.

Her expedition covered thousands of miles by bicycle and was partly driven by a wager that a woman could not accomplish such a feat. Beyond the journey itself, Annie Londonderry became a symbol of early female independence and mobility, challenging gender norms of the late 19th century and helping redefine what women were seen as capable of achieving.

According to the Internet