Cycling poster The hour – hour record 1893–2022

by Sidney van den Boogaard

This cycling poster shows how far one rider can go in exactly one hour. The black ring tells the whole story of the men's hour record: read it clockwise, from 1893 to today, and the thicker the ring, the further the rider went. It starts with Desgrange's 35.325 km, passes Coppi in 1942, Anquetil in 1956 and Merckx's 49.431 km in 1972, and ends at the big number in the middle: Ganna's 56.792 km from 2022. The dashed line is the nine rides that stopped counting in 2000 when the rules changed, the best of them Boardman's 56.375 km. Inside the ring is the full list, with Wiggins, Moser, Rominger and all the others. Cycling wall art in black and cream, for anyone who knows what an hour on the track costs.

This work is part of the Roll of Honour collection: sports history as art for your wall. Each poster is about one sport and shows in one image what happened in that sport, with every name and number checked against two sources.

Independent work, not affiliated with or endorsed by any league, federation, team or athlete; the facts come from Wikipedia and other public sources. A great gift for anyone who knows their sport's records by heart, and a striking sports poster for the living room, the study or the clubhouse.