Sarah Storey
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Dame Sarah Joanne Storey is a British cyclist and swimmer, a multiple gold medallist in the Paralympic Games, and six times British national track champion.
Storey at the 2024 Road World Championships
Storey at the Our Greatest Team Parade, in 2012.
Hour record
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The hour record is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle from a stationary start. Cyclists attempt this record alone on the track without other competitors present. It is
Sarah Storey
…supporting the charity Boot Out Breast Cancer. The team fielded squads in the 2014 and 2015 British road race seasons. Storey attempted to break the world hour record at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London on 28 February 2015. She set a distance of 45.502 km, which was 563m short of Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel's 2003…
Jean-Eugène-André Castéra (left) and James Moore (right) with a Paris – Rouen velocipede, 1869
Eddy Merckx's 1972 hour record steel-framed bike
The Lotus 108 bicycle, a forerunner to the Lotus 110 Chris Boardman used to set a new hour record of 56.375 km (35.030 mi) in 1996.
The bike used by Jens Voigt in the first attempt under the unified regulations in 2014