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The hour record now stands near 56.8 km
Filippo Ganna rode 56.792 kilometres in one hour in October 2022 The hour record asks a rider to cover as much ground as possible in 60 minutes on a velodrome. Ganna set his mark at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenoble. The UCI unified the rules in 2014 so that riders could use modern pursuit-style bikes, which reset the record for a new era. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The hour record now stands near 56.8 km: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Filippo Ganna rode 56.792 kilometres in one hour in October 2022. The figure is taken from Union Cycliste Internationale, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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