World Hour Record Cycling

11 May 1893  Henri Desgrange   Buffalo, Paris           35.325 kilometres
31 Oct 1894  Jules Dubois   Buffalo, Paris                   38.220
30 Jul 1897    Oscar Van Den Eynde  Paris                  39.240
03 Jul 1898    Willie Hamilton   Denver, USA                40.781
24 Aug 1905   Lucien Petit-Breton Buffalo, Paris       41.110
20 Jun 1907   Marcel Berthet   Paris                           41.520
22 Aug 1912   Oscar Egg   Paris                                  42.122
07 Aug 1913   Marcel Berthet   Paris                          42.741
21 Aug 1913   Oscar Egg   Paris                                  43.525
20 Sep 1913   Marcel Berthet   Paris                          43.775
18 Aug 1914   Oscar Egg   Paris                                  44.247
25 Aug 1933   Jan Van Hout   Roermond                     44.588
28 Sep 1933   Maurice Richard   St. Trond, Belgium  44.777
31 Oct 1935   Giuseppe Olmo   Vigorelli, Milan          45.090
14 Oct 1936   Maurice Richard   Vigorelli, Milan       45.325
29 Sep 1937   Frans Slaats   Vigorelli, Milan               45.485
03 Nov 1937   Maurice Archambaud Vigorelli, Milan   45.767
07 Nov 1942   Fausto Coppi   Vigorelli, Milan             45.798
29 Jun 1956   Jacques Anquetil Vigorelli, Milan          46.159
19 Sep 1956   Ercole Baldini   Vigorelli, Milan             46.394
18 Sep 1957   Roger Rivière   Vigorelli, Milan             46.923
23 Sep 1959   Roger Rivière   Vigorelli, Milan             47.347
30 Oct 1967   Ferdi Bracke   , Rome                          48.093
10 Oct 1968   Ole Ritter   Mexico City                      48.653
25 Oct 1972   Eddy Merckx   Mexico City                 49.431
19 Jan 1984   Francesco Moser   Mexico City          50.808
23 Jan 1984   Francesco Moser   Mexico City           51.151
17 Jul 1993   Graeme Obree   Hamar, Norway           51.596
23 Jul 1993   Chris Boardman   Velodrome du Lac, Bordeaux   52.270
27 Apr 1994   Graeme Obree   Velodrome du Lac, Bordeaux   52.713
02 Sep 1994   Miguel Indurain   Velodrome du Lac, Bordeaux   53.040
22 Oct 1994   Toni Rominger   Velodrome du Lac, Bordeaux   53.832
05 Nov 1994   Toni Rominger   Velodrome du Lac, Bordeaux   55.291
07 Sep 1996   Chris Boardman   Manchester, UK                      56.375

The "Athlete's" Hour Record 2000 - date

27 Oct 2000 Chris Boarman Manchester UK                             49.441
20 July 2005 Ondrej Sosenka (Cz)  Moscow                             49.700 

In 2000 the UCI decided to bring in a radical change to the rules regarding the World Hour Record. They decided that any future attempts would have to use the same technology as the Mercks era, e.g. no tri bars, no disc wheels e.t.c. THis explains the huge drop in distance achieved by Christ Boardman.

(Although Merckx rode at altitude Boardman didn't)

World Hour Record - Useful Pages by wolfgang-menn on the hour record with splits for different distances

"THe Hour" by Michael Hutchinson

- Richard