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=== Historical hour records === {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="min-width:22em" |+ Men's historical hour records (1873–1972) <br />(UCI official records from 1893) |- !Date !Rider !Location ! Distance <br />(km) ! Increase <br />(m) |- |1873 || [[James Moore (cyclist)|James Moore]] {{flagicon|ENG}}||Molyneaux Grounds, Wolverhampton, England ||23.331||- |- |25 March 1876 ||Frank Dodds {{flagicon|USA}}||Cambridge University Ground<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.espn.co.uk/onthisday/sport/story/100.html |title= March 25 down the years |work= ESPN.co.uk |access-date= 18 September 2014 |archive-date= 18 October 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141018182336/http://www.espn.co.uk/onthisday/sport/story/100.html |url-status= live }}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|{{cite book |title= The Historical Dictionary of Cycling |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdXCmwpk-SAC&pg=PA381 |isbn = 9780810871755|last1 = Heijmans|first1 = Jeroen|last2 = Mallon|first2 = Bill|date = 2011-10-16| publisher=Scarecrow Press }} (Jeroen Heijmans, Bill Mallon) lists three further records after Dodds but before Herbert Cortis. Listed only by surname, 1877, Shopee in Cambridge, 26.960, 1878, Weir, in Oxford, 28.542 and Christie, in 1879, 30.374, also in Oxford.}} ||26.508||3,177 |- |2 August 1882 || Herbert Liddell Cortis {{flagicon|ENG}}||England ||32.454||5,946 |- |1887 || [[Jules Dubois (cyclist)|Jules Dubois]] {{flagicon|BEL}}||London, England || 34.217||1,763 |- |11 May 1893 || [[Henri Desgrange]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||[[Vélodrome Buffalo|Buffalo, Paris]] || 35.325||1,108 |- |31 October 1894 || [[Jules Dubois (cyclist)|Jules Dubois]] {{flagicon|BEL}}||Buffalo, Paris || 38.220||2,895 |- |30 July 1897 || [[Oscar Van den Eynden]] {{flagicon|BEL}}||Vincennes, Paris || 39.240||1,020 |- |3 July 1898 || [[Willie Hamilton (cyclist)|Willie Hamilton]] {{flagicon|IRE}}||Colorado Springs, USA || 40.781||1,541 |- |24 August 1905 || [[Lucien Petit-Breton]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Buffalo, Paris || 41.110||329 |- |20 June 1907 || [[Marcel Berthet]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Paris || 41.520||410 |- |22 August 1912 || [[Oscar Egg]] {{flagicon|SUI}}||Paris || 42.122 <br /><small>(Revised to 42.360)</small>||602 |- |22 July 1913 || Richard Weise {{flagicon|GER}}||Berlin, Germany||<s>42.276</s>||{{refn|group=nb|{{cite web | title = Berthet/Egg Hour Record| url = http://bikeraceinfo.com/riderhistories/berthet-egg-hour-record.html }} Oscar Egg's original distance was recorded at 42.122 km. In July 1913 Richard Weise beat this mark, but following protest from Egg the Buffalo track was re-measured and his result changed to 42.360 km, cancelling out Weise's record}} |- |7 August 1913 || [[Marcel Berthet]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Paris || 42.741||619 |- |21 August 1913 || [[Oscar Egg]] {{flagicon|SUI}}||Paris || 43.525||784 |- |20 September 1913|| [[Marcel Berthet]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Paris || 43.775||250 |- |18 June 1914 || [[Oscar Egg]] {{flagicon|SUI}}||Paris || 44.247 ||471 |- |7 July 1933 || [[Francis Faure]] {{flagicon|FRA}}|| Paris || 45.055||808{{refn|group=nb|{{cite web | title = The history of the recumbent bicycle| url = http://www.helsinki.fi/~tlinden/winforb.html }} On 7 July 1933 Francis Faure rode 45.055 km on a "Velocar" beating Egg's record. This led to the UCI imposing rules regarding bicycle dimensions on 1 April 1934 and Faure's record was moved into a new category, "Records Set By Human Powered Vehicles (HPV's) without Special Aerodynamic Features"}} |- |25 August 1933 || [[Jan van Hout]] {{flagicon|NED}}||Roermond || 44.588||388 |- |28 September 1933|| [[Maurice Richard (cyclist)|Maurice Richard]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Sint-Truiden, Belgium || 44.777||189 |- |31 October 1935 || [[Giuseppe Olmo]] {{flagicon|ITA}}||[[Velodromo Vigorelli]], Milan || 45.090||313 |- |14 October 1936 || [[Maurice Richard (cyclist)|Maurice Richard]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 45.325||235 |- |29 September 1937|| [[Frans Slaats]] {{flagicon|NED}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 45.485||160 |- |3 November 1937 || [[Maurice Archambaud]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 45.767||282 |- |7 November 1942 || [[Fausto Coppi]] {{flagicon|ITA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 45.798||31 |- |29 June 1956 || [[Jacques Anquetil]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 46.159||369 |- |19 September 1956|| [[Ercole Baldini]] {{flagicon|ITA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 46.394||235 |- |18 September 1957|| [[Roger Rivière]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 46.923||529 |- |23 September 1959|| Roger Rivière {{flagicon|FRA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || 47.347||424 |- |27 September 1967|| Jacques Anquetil {{flagicon|FRA}}||Vigorelli, Milan || <s>47.493</s>||{{refn|group=nb|{{cite book | title = Sex Lies and Handlebar tape, p237-239 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=v0eNTAHzlyEC |isbn = 9781845963019|last1 = Howard|first1 = Paul|year = 2008| publisher=Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited }} (Paul Howard) Anquetil set a record time in 1967 of 47.493 km but the record was never ratified by the UCI following Anquetil's refusal to take a post race doping control, and on 13 October the UCI voted not to allow the record.}} |- |30 October 1967 || [[Ferdi Bracke]] {{flagicon|BEL}}||Olympic Velodrome, Rome || 48.093||746 |- |10 October 1968 || [[Ole Ritter]] {{flagicon|DEN}}||Mexico City || 48.653||560 |- |25 October 1972 || [[Eddy Merckx]] {{flagicon|BEL}}||Mexico City || 49.431||778 |} {{col-2}} {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="min-width:22em" |+Women's historical hour records (1893–1972) <br />(UCI official records from 1955) |- ! Date ! Rider ! Location ! Distance (km) ! Increase <br />(m) |- |July 1893|| Mlle de Saint-Saveur {{flagicon|FRA}} || Vélodrome Buffalo, Paris, France||26.012|| - |- |August 1893|| Renée Debatz {{flagicon|FRA}}|| Vélodrome Buffalo, Paris, France||28.019||2007 |- |October 1893||[[Hélène Dutrieu]] {{flagicon|BEL}}|| Vélodrome Lillois, Lille, France||28.78||761 |- |October 1897|| Louise Roger {{flagicon|FRA}}|| Vélodrome Buffalo, Paris, France||34.684||5,904 |- |1911 ||[[Alfonsina Strada]] {{flagicon|ITA}}|| Moncalieri, Turin, Italy||37.192||2,508 |- |October 1947|| Élyane Bonneau {{flagicon|FRA}}|| France||37.56||368 |- |November 1948||[[Jeannine Lemaire]]<ref>Meilleure Performance Sur Piste FSGT, https://www.cnav-club.fr/uploads/69/Record%20de%20l'heure%20%20FSGT%20Mars%202020.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002210103/https://www.cnav-club.fr/uploads/69/Record%20de%20l%27heure%20%20FSGT%20Mars%202020.pdf |date=2021-10-02 }}</ref> {{flagicon|FRA}}|| France ||37.72||160 |- |July 1949||[[Jeannine Lemaire]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||France ||38.283||563 |- |1952||[[Jeannine Lemaire]] {{flagicon|FRA}}||France ||39.735||1,452 |- |7 July 1955 || [[Tamara Novikova]] {{flagicon|SUN}}|| [[Irkoutsk]], Russia ||38.473|| -1,262 (due to previous non-UCI records) |- |18 September 1957 || [[Renee Vissac]] {{flagicon|FRA}}|| [[Velodromo Vigorelli]], [[Milan]], Italy || 38.569||96 (still less than non-UCI record) |- |25 September 1958|| [[Millie Robinson]] {{flagicon|IMN}}|| Vigorelli Velodrome, [[Milan]], Italy||39.719||1,150 (still less than non-UCI record) |- |9 November 1958 || Elsy Jacobs {{flagicon|LUX}}||Vigorelli Velodrome, [[Milan]], Italy ||41.347||1,628 (1,612 increase on the non-UCI 1952 record) |} {{col-end}}
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