{"id":68701,"date":"2025-08-14T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68701\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:50:07","slug":"britains-will-bjergfelt-sets-new-c5-para-cycling-uci-hour-record-of-51-471km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68701\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Will Bjergfelt sets new C5 para-cycling UCI Hour Record of 51.471km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"86925bb1-62b8-4e6c-a1ef-b3f1fb4d1ed9\">British para-cyclist Will Bjergfelt has set a new C5 UCI Hour Record of 51.471km, pulverising the previous record and becoming the first para-cyclist to break the 50km barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record of 47.569 km was set by Italy\u2019s Andrea Tarlao in December 2014 but Bjergfelt went much further.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"86925bb1-62b8-4e6c-a1ef-b3f1fb4d1ed9-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">He employed a negative split strategy for his hour Record attempt, covering the early laps at a steady 49km\/h pace before upping his lap speed over 51km\/h. He ended with laps at 51.4km\/h and a final confirmed new Hour Record of 51.471km.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Bjergfelt was the first of three record attempts by British riders on the Konya velodrome in Turkey. Charlie Tanfield is targeting Filippo Ganna&#8217;s men&#8217;s Hour Record of 56.792km, and then sprinter Matt Richardson will target the Men&#8217;s 200m flying start record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Bjergfelt began para-cycling after a car crash that left him with life-changing injuries, becoming a successful rider on both the track and road, and was the C5 UCI world road race champion in 2023.<\/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":"British para-cyclist Will Bjergfelt has set a new C5 UCI Hour Record of 51.471km, pulverising the previous record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-68701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}