SIXTY MINUTES

Standout moments from 139 years of the Hour record

2015-05-01 -

1876 – 26.508km, Frank Dodds (first recorded effort on a Penny Farthing)

1898 – 40.781km, Willie Hamilton, Denver, Colorado ** (first to break 40km mark)

1942 – 45.848km, Fausto Coppi, Milan 1972 – 49.431km, Eddy Merckx, Mexico City **

1984 – 50.808km, Francesco Moser, Mexico City ** (first over 50km)

1993 – 51.596km, Graeme Obree, Hamar

1993 – 52.270km, Chris Boardman, Bordeaux

1994 – 52.713km, Graeme Obree, Bordeaux

1994 – 53.040km, Miguel Indurain, Bordeaux

1994 – 55.291km, Tony Rominger, Bordeaux

1995 – 47.411km, Yvonne Mcgregor, Manchester

1996 – 56.375km, Chris Boardman, Manchester (last hour record before the UCI banned extreme positions)

2000 – Rule change by UCI; no more aero bikes

2000 – 49.441km, Chris Boardman (now classified as Athlete’s Record, and only beat Merckx by 10m)

2005 – 49.700km, Ondrej Sosenka, Moscow

2014 – Rule change by UCI; aero track bikes allowed

2014 – 51.115km, Jens Voigt – Grenchen, Switzerland *

2014 – 51.850km, Matthias Brändle, Aigle, Switzerland

2015 – 51.300km, Jack Bobridge, Melbourne

2015 – 52.491km, Rohan Dennis, Grenchen, Switzerland*

2015 – 45.502km, Sarah Storey, London (national record) *signifies attempt made at low altitude ** signifies high altitude