{"id":67662,"date":"2025-08-14T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:58:11","slug":"charlie-tanfield-fails-to-break-filippo-gannas-uci-hour-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67662\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Tanfield fails to break Filippo Ganna&#8217;s UCI Hour Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"0562df77-430b-437b-95ae-da7094a669de\">Charlie Tanfield failed to set a new <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/filippo-ganna-hour-record-attempt\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/filippo-ganna-hour-record-attempt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCI Hour Record<\/a> on the Konya velodrome in Turkey, covering a distance of 53.967km, well below the record of 56.792km set by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/filippo-ganna\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/filippo-ganna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filippo Ganna<\/a> set in Grenchen, Switzerland in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Tanfield planned to ride a negative split strategy, starting at a below record pace before accelerating in the final 20 minutes. However, he struggled to go beyond 54.500km\/h in the final minutes and his final distance was officially calculated to be 53.967km.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"0562df77-430b-437b-95ae-da7094a669de-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Later on Tuesday, Matt Richardson will target the Men&#8217;s 200m flying start record. Before Tanfield&#8217;s ride, British para-cyclist Will Bjergfelt <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/britains-will-bjergfelt-sets-new-c5-para-cycling-uci-hour-record-of-51-471km\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/britains-will-bjergfelt-sets-new-c5-para-cycling-uci-hour-record-of-51-471km\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set a new C5 UCI Hour Record<\/a> of 51.471km.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Tanfield failed to set a new UCI Hour Record on the Konya velodrome in Turkey, covering a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-67662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}