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The Star
11-05-2025
- Sport
- The Star
Cycling-Italy's Bussi betters own hour world record
FILE PHOTO: Cycling - UCI Road World Championships - Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy - September 24, 2020 Italy's Vittoria Bussi in action during the Women's Elite Individual Time Trial REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini/File Photo (Reuters) - Italy's Vittoria Bussi broke her own hour world record when she covered 50.455 km at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on Saturday, cycling's world governing body the UCI, said in a statement. Bussi held the women's hour record from 2018-2021 and became the first woman to break the 50-km barrier in October 2023 when she reclaimed the record from Ellen van Dijk of the Netherlands, covering 50.267 km. The 38-year-old mathematics PhD attempted to better her own record on Friday but stopped after the halfway mark, before achieving the feat in a fresh attempt the following day. "This record has always been really special to me as an athlete and as a person," Bussi said in a statement released by the UCI. "The hour taught me that one of the most important things in life is to understand the preciousness of time in every single instant of our life." (Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in Bengaluru; editing by Clare Fallon)
The Star
01-05-2025
- Sport
- The Star
Cycling-Italy's Bussi plots new Hour attempt
FILE PHOTO: Cycling - UCI Road World Championships - Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy - September 24, 2020 Italy's Vittoria Bussi in action during the Women's Elite Individual Time Trial REUTERS/Jennifer Lorenzini/File Photo (Reuters) -Italy's Vittoria Bussi will attempt to break her own Hour record later this month having already become the first woman to cover more than 50km in 60 minutes around a track. The 38-year-old mathematics PhD will make the attempt on May 9 at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico. A week later she will also try to lower the women's 4km individual pursuit record, which was set by Britain's Anna Morris in Manchester earlier this year. "I can say that I started my real cycling career with this record, so it will be the perfect dream to finish it with another record," Bussi said in a statement from cycling's world governing body the UCI. She held the women's Hour record from 2018-2021 with 48.007km and took it again in 2023 by smashing through the 50km barrier. "It will be the most challenging Hour of my career as it has been prepared together with the individual pursuit, my other love. I think it would be a beautiful historical moment for women's cycling to be able to hold both the records at the same time, so I am honoured to try!" Bussi added. (Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by Ken Ferris)
