Victor Campenaerts sets new one-hour record to surpass Sir Bradley Wiggins
• Belgian rider covers 55.089 kilometres to beat mark set in 2015
• Campenaerts ‘super-happy’ to take a place in record books
Sir Bradley Wiggins’ one-hour UCI world record has been broken by the Belgian Victor Campenaerts. The 27-year-old Lotto Soudal rider covered 55.089 kilometres (34.231 miles) in his record attempt at the Aguascalientes indoor velodrome in Mexico.
Wiggins had held the record since June 2015 when he completed a distance of 54.526km (33.881 miles) at London’s Lee Valley VeloPark. “I really focused on this for a long time so I am super-happy that I took the record,” Campenaerts said after completing 221 laps of the velodrome.