Czech Ondrej Sosenka broke the one-hour cycling world record at the Krylatskoye Olympic indoor track on Tuesday, said Russian cycling federation deputy president Yury Kucheryavy.

Sosenka set a distance of 49,700 kms, beating British Chris Boardman's previous record of 49,441 kms, set in Manchester, England in 2000.

The Czech rider recorded a time of 1:15.01 (to 1:17.891) for the first kilometer, went through the 5km point over three seconds up, extended to just under 7 seconds by 25 kms and 18 seconds by 40km.

The 29-year-old, a time-trial specialist, won the prologue of the Uniqa Classic and the Stage 4 time-trial in the Tour of Belgium this season.

The current Czech TT champion also took the overall classification of both the Tour of Poland and the Tour of Slovakiain the past.

Source: Xinhua