Vittoria Bussi will attempt to break Ellen van Dijk's hour record

Vittoria Bussi will attempt to set a new UCI Hour Record on October 11 at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The UCI confirmed the former record holder’s attempt nine months after she started a crowdfunding project to raise €10,000, to help with the extensive costs that come with training and preparing for an Hour Record.

Bussi set the record in 2018 with a distance of 48.007 kilometres, after falling short in 2017 of the distance established by USA’s Evelyn Stevens a year earlier. The Italian’s record was eventually broken by Britain’s Joscelin Lowden in 2021 at the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, where Van Dijk would also set her record of 49.254 kilometres in 2022.

"I am honoured to announce I will attempt to break the UCI Hour Record timed by Tissot in Aguascalientes, where I already broke it once just over five years ago," said Bussi in a press release. "I went through quite a few emotions when my record was first broken, but thanks to my project Road2record, I now feel ready to try to establish a new world mark."

"I am deeply grateful to all the people who contributed to make this attempt happen and to all the sponsors that have believed in me and supported me in these months of preparation," she thanked her supporters in the end.