Lowden smashes Hour record

To a spirited, if small, round of applause, British rider Joss Lowden set a new women’s Hour record in the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, last Thursday.

The Drops-Le Col rider covered a distance of 48.405km in the alloted time to smash the record of Italian Vittoria Bussi set at 48.007km in 2018.

So strong was it that she also beat the best human effort record of 48.159km set by Jeannie Longo in 2000 using the now banned ultra-aero superwoman position.

Lowden paced her effort perfectly and after the first few laps, when she found her rhythm, never dropped below record pace and