Will Bjergfelt is the new holder of the male C5 UCI Hour Record, presented by Tissot: at the Turkish velodrome in Konya, the 46-year-old British para-cyclist covered 51.471 km, literally demolishing the previous record of 47.569 km set by Italian Andrea Tarlao on December 13, 2014, at the Fassa Bortolo velodrome in Montichiari, Italy.

William Bjergfelt, 46 years old, achieved his first success as a para-cyclist in the individual time trial at the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Baie-Comeau, Canada. In 2021, he became the first para-cyclist to participate in the Tour of Britain. In 2023, he won the road event at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup in Ostend (Belgium), before donning the world championship jersey in the discipline at the Glasgow World Championships. An aerospace logistics manager, the British cyclist is a former elite mountain bike cyclist. Just a few months after suffering a serious leg injury in an accident in 2015, he returned to his bike to embark on a brilliant career as a para-cyclist.

And now the spotlight is on Charlie Tanfield, 28-year-old British track cyclist, who is going after the absolute record set by Filippo Ganna with 56.792 km on October 8, 2022, at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland.