Thursday at 11.15, in the velodrome at 1200 meters in Konya, in Türkiye, the British aims to beat the 56.792 km of Piedmontese. Tanfield, 28, won the Olympic silver 2024 in the quartet
The two most prestigious records of the track are blue. Jonathan Milan, who has just conquered the green shirt of the points ranking at the Tour de France, is the world champion of individual sizes: on October 18, 2024 in Ballerup, in Denmark, he covered the 4 km in 3’59 “153, average 60.212 km/h. The time record is instead of Filippo Ganna for almost three years: the Piedmontese, Olympian of the quartet in Tokyo 2021, two, two. World Cup and 7 on the track, it hit it on October 8, 2022 on the Swiss track of Grenchen. whales to produce what has been called the most performing bicycle ever.
In Türkiye
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Today the primacy of Ganna is at the test of a very strong British Pistard, Charlie Tanfield, 28 years old, who many times has found himself facing. He is world champion of team chair in 2018 (with the third third), he won the Olympic silver with the quartet in Paris 2024 (Italy third) and the European gold in 2024. 1.92 for 80 kg tall, Tanfield has chosen the brand new and futuristic Turkish velodrome of Konya, 1200 meters above sea level, cities south of the capital Ankara: the European Championships will take place here in February 2026. on the track. The reason for the choice lies on the surface, considered by the technicians very fast. The start of the attempt is scheduled at 12.15 Turkish, 11.15 Italians.
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“I have always been thinking about the time record. Bradley Wiggins inspired me, I entered the structure of the British Federation track when Wiggo had the primacy (54.526 km in 2015, editor’s note) and I thought that one day I would have had this possibility. I had a lot of time to prepare the attempt, I started in August 2024 when I resumed the training after the Paris games, this is the right opportunity and now I will All myself, “Tanfield told Cyclingweekly. He trained with long retreats at an altitude of Andorra, at over 2200 meters, and specific workouts in the heat, even at 45 degrees, in a curtain mounted in the garden of the house: “It will seem strange to you, but I did not make many sessions on the track as you think, I preferred to work a lot on warm and altitude training. Because when your body starts to warm up, and to touch 38 and 39 degrees, you start to lose 20 watts of your power. compromise your performance “.
He will use the Lotus bike of the British quartet. And Tanfield closes like this: “The time record is a beast. It is such a hard event that, if you don’t have a great passion, you can’t even imagine the suffering and preparation that you just have to do to introduce yourself to the starting line. Many times I said” but what the hell am I doing? It’s a frightening thing, it’s so difficult. “But slowly I approached the record, I became more and more confident. Now I am excited to see how fast I can go. The record is in the air.”
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