SIXTY MINUTES
Standout moments from 139 years of the Hour record
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