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[1] 1 km time trial (progression) 1:00.711 Chris Hoy Great Britain: 20 August 2004 2004 Olympic Games: Athens, Greece [2] [3] Team sprint (progression) ♦40.949 Jeffrey Hoogland Harrie Lavreysen Roy van den Berg Netherlands 6 August 2024 2024 Olympic Games: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France [4] 4000 m individual pursuit (progression) 4:14.982 ...
On Sunday 17 March 1940 Pat Hawkins, an 18-year-old female from Western Australia, set the 'World Seven Days record' in Perth, having ridden 1,546.8 miles (2,489.3 km) to surpass the previous best (1,438.4 miles (2,314.9 km)) set by Mrs Valda Unthank of Hastings, Victoria.
In the 1980s, bikepacking races became popular in Alaska, which are long-distance touring races where the riders cycle with all necessary equipment on their own and are self-supported. [1] An example of such a race was the 320 km (200 mile) long IditaBike race (playing on the name of the famous Iditarod long-distance sled dog race) which was ...
1 km time trial: 1:06.144 Anastasiia Voinova Russia 8 August 2019 Saint Petersburg, Russia 3000m individual pursuit (sea level) 3:15.663 Chloé Dygert United States 19 October 2024 World Championships: Ballerup, Denmark [22] 3000m team pursuit [d] (progression) 3:14.051 Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell Great Britain 4 August 2012 Olympic Games
A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages are held as an individual time trial or a team time trial .
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, classifies races according to a rating scale.. The rating is represented by a code made of two or three parts and indicates both the type or style of race (the first part), and its importance or difficulty (the second and third parts, lower being harder).
It was the world's first long-distance road race and also won by Moore, who took 10 hours and 25 minutes to cover 134 km. The runners-up were the Count André Castéra, who had come second to Moore at St-Cloud, and Jean Bobillier, riding a farm bike that weighed 35 kg.
Program of cycling races, August 1871, Mons, Belgium. Bicycle Racer posed at Salt Palace wood track, Salt Lake City, 1911. The first documented cycling race was a 1,200 metre race held on May 31, 1868, at the Park of Saint-Cloud, Paris. It was won by expatriate Englishman James Moore who rode a bicycle with solid rubber tires. [3]