Cycling: Today is Jens Voigt's day. The hour world record attempt by the Berliners by choice casts a long shadow ahead and many will already be looking forward to the start of the hunt at 18:30 p.m. We look back on some exciting attempts from the history of the hour record.
Eddy Merckx set a record in Mexico City in 1972 on a 5,75 kilogram light steel bike, which stood for a long time and which the World Cycling Union UCI later reintroduced as a reference. The Czech Ondrej Sosenka is the reigning world record holder who rode a similar bike.
[iframe src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/nqjEvDlFqdM?rel=0″ width=”620″ height=”465″]Francesco Moser set a new record in 1984 on a very special bike.
[iframe src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/Xo-x9prvL7w?rel=0″ width=”620″ height=”349″]In 1993 the Scotsman Graemme Obree tackled the lesson.
[iframe src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/ml6KT5MArC8?rel=0″ width=”620″ height=”465″]1994 was the year of the world hour record. There were three attempts: Miguel Indurain, Graemme Obree and Tony Rominger tackled the lesson.
[iframe src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/6djob4XFGgI?rel=0″ width=”620″ height=”465″]The attempt by the Brit Chris Boardman from 1996 should of course not be missing in this collection.
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