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Filippo Ganna hour record

UCI hour record of 56.792 km in 60 minutes at Grenchen on 8 October 2022. Stored as 56.792 km/h, the same figure.

Also known as Filippo Ganna
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Top speed

Published as 56.792 km/hPublished as 56.792 km/hPublished as 56.792 km/h

UCI hour record, unpaced standing start, 60 minutes. The official result is a distance. 56.792 km in one hour is 56.792 km/h.

OfficialUnion Cycliste Internationale (opens source in a new tab)

In context

  • 1.5× Usain Bolt's 100 m world-record paceSourced · Usain Bolt, 100 m in 9.58 s. World Athletics, Berlin 2009. Averaged over the race
  • 54% of a cheetah's timed top speedSourced · Cheetah, 29 m/s. Sharp 1997, mean of three timed runs over 201.2 m
  • A football field in 5.8 sConstant · American football field, 100 yd (91.44 m)

Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

Mechanism

Why it's so fast

Filippo Ganna hour record's hour record is distance in sixty minutes, not a top speed. The fast hours are riders who waste as little power as possible on drag and who do not go out too hard.

  1. The rider is the drag

    Most of the air hits the person. The tuck, the suit and the bike shrink that shape. A one-second sprint on a road bike is a different event.

  2. Pacing under rules

    The governing body says what equipment and what track count. The entry cites that mark. An unofficial attempt with illegal positions is not the row.

Nearby on this list: Dan Bigham hour record.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 56.792km/h35.3mph15.8m/s30.7knRanked figure

    UCI hour record, unpaced standing start, 60 minutes. The official result is a distance. 56.792 km in one hour is 56.792 km/h.

    Official
    Union Cycliste Internationale (opens source in a new tab)

Reference

Specs

Rider
Filippo Ganna
Distance
56.792 km
Track
Tissot Velodrome, Grenchen
Date
8 October 2022

Context

Background

The UCI press release prints 56.792 km in 60 minutes for Filippo Ganna at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen on 8 October 2022. Guinness prints 56.792 kilometres the same day. Olympics.com prints 56.792 km as well. The hour is fixed, so the distance is an average speed of 56.792 km/h. That is the ranked figure, not a second measurement.

Chris Boardman's 56.375 km ride in 1996 used a position the UCI later banned. Guinness mentions it as a best human effort and does not mix it into this UCI-rules record. It is not a row.

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