Berkeley Law Professor Molly Van Houweling recently won her ninth cycling world championship. Competing in the Women 50-54 division at the 2026 Union Cycliste Internationale Gran Fondo World Championships in Japan, Van Houweling won her 16-kilometer time trial in just over 21 minutes, besting defending champion Marina Letaeva by 13 seconds. One of the most successful riders in Gran Fondo history, she set a then-women’s world record in 2015 of riding 46.273 kilometers — 28.753 miles — in an hour. A prominent technology law, property, and food law expert, Van Houweling received the campus-wide Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award in 2020 and Berkeley Law’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction in 2022.