I finished reading Michael Hutchinson’s “The Hour”, which gained him the award for “Best New Writer” at the 2007 “British Sports Book Awards”. The book mainly covers the first of his two (unsuccessful) hour record attempts.
Category Archives: Track
Rohan Dennis breaks the Hour Record
BMC Racing Team’s Australian rider Rohan Dennis sets the new hour record with 52.491 kilometers (32.616 mi), beating Matthias Brändle’s record by over 600 metres, at the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, Switzerland.
Marchand beats his own hour record
102-year-old Robert Marchand beat his own Hour Record for the category created especially for him by the UCI (100+) this afternoon. He rode 26.927 km – 10% further than the distance he set in 2012 at the age of 100!
102-year-old Robert Marchand to attempt to break his own Hour Record
102-year-old Robert Marchand still holds the Hour Record[1] for 100+ age group. Tomorrow, the evergreen Frenchman will attack his own record.