The Hour Record
Between 1907 and 1914 Oscar Egg and Marcel Berthet improved the hour record six times between them. Egg's 1914 mark of 44.247 km then stood until 1933. Egg set all three of his records at the Vélodrome Buffalo in Paris. The track was a 333m outdoor track surfaced with concrete. The sequence was as follows:
- 20 Jun 1907, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 41.520 km
- 22 Aug 1912, Oscar Egg, Paris, 42.122 km
- 7 Aug 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 42.741 km
- 21 Aug 1913, Oscar Egg, Paris, 43.525 km
- 20 Sep 1913, Marcel Berthet, Paris, 43.775 km
- 18 Aug 1914, Oscar Egg, Paris, 44.247 km
Only Chris Boardman has equalled Egg and Berthet's feat of taking the record three times.
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