12 Facts About Hour record

Hour record is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle from a stationary start.

Hour record was attempted sporadically over the following 70 years, with most early attempts taking place at the Buffalo Velodrome in Paris, before the Velodromo Vigorelli in Milan became popular in 1930s and 1940s sparking attempts from leading Italian riders and former Giro d'Italia winners such as Fausto Coppi and Ercole Baldini.

Coppi's Hour record set in 1942, during the Second World War, despite Milan being bombed nightly by Allied forces, was eventually broken in 1956 by Jacques Anquetil on his third attempt.

Hour record had objected to what he saw as the indignity of having to urinate in a tent in front of a crowded velodrome and said he would take the test later at his hotel.

Women's hour record was first established in 1893 by Mlle de Saint-Sauveur at the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris, setting a total distance of 26.

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The Hour record was improved several times over the next years, until Louise Roger reached 34.

The first women's hour record approved by the UCI was by Tamara Novikova in 1955.

However Lemaire's 1952 non-UCI Hour record was not bettered until Elsy Jacobs' broke the 40 kmh barrier in 1958, the year Jacobs had won the inaugural women's road world championship.

Moser beat his 1984 Hour record, using bullhorn handlebars, steel airfoil tubing, disk wheels and skinsuit.

The record stood as a best human effort until October 2022, when Filippo Ganna unified the records, beating Boardman's best human effort record on a traditionally shaped, though uniquely manufactured, bicycle.

Hour record broke the women's hour at the Adelaide Super-Drome on 22 January 2016, riding 46.

Hour record's record was broken by American rider Evelyn Stevens in the next month - the new record was 47.