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An 18-year-old from Augusta, Georgia, Jonas Walton, set a brand new Hour File for junior riders on Monday on the Aguascalientes Velodrome in Mexico, driving 50.792 kilometres on the high-altitude monitor.
The gap is 1,608 metres greater than the earlier document of 49.184 kilometres set in March by Welsh rider Fred Meredith.
“I need to thank everybody who helped make this doable. I went on the market with a plan and I undoubtedly left all of it on the market in the present day,” Walton stated in a press launch despatched by his father’s teaching enterprise Walton Endurance.
The efficiency – when ratified – can even have netted Walton the USA Biking Hour File for junior males, beating Luke Mullis’ 47.595-kilometre document from 2016.
Walton is the son of Canadian former professional rider Brian Walton, a Olympic silver medalist within the factors race in 1996, and Monitor Grasp’s World Champion Dana Walton.
The record-setting effort is much wanting Filippo Ganna’s spectacular 56.792-kilometre journey from earlier this month, however it’s outstanding contemplating Walton competed in his first bike race in 2020, having been pressured to cease operating due to a standard bone problem referred to as Osgood-Schlatter illness.
He went on to hitch the native Sizzling Tubes Biking Workforce, famous for expertise improvement however had solely ridden on a velodrome 3 times earlier than making an attempt to interrupt the Hour File.
In line with the press launch, Walton rode an Argon 18 carbon monitor bike which was loaned to him by Grasp’s World Champion Russ Murphy together with double disc wheels with Vittoria Velocity Ideas tires.
His cockpit arrange was by Aerocoach, the identical firm that labored with Alex Dowsett on his 2021 try, and he used Speedplay Aero, a customized speedsuit by Verge, a POC Tempor helmet and Shimano RC9 footwear.
“Walton is now resetting his focus for the upcoming highway season whereas attending Belmont Abbey Faculty in North Carolina as a freshman the place he acquired a biking and tutorial scholarship,” the press launch said.
