Ellen Van Dijk set the new track hour record for women, covering 49.254 kilometers and surpassing the old record that belonged to the British Joss Lowden.
The Dutchman covered 848 meters more than his rival.
35-year-old Van Dijk is a former scratch world champion and time trial specialist.
"This record is actually very different from a time trial - he said, after his feat in Granges (Switzerland) -. For an hour you only see a thick black line on the track. It's a real challenge and I talked a lot with him. team psychologist. I'm really happy that it's over and that I managed to set the record. I did everything we had planned. If I felt capable, I would have liked to accelerate in the second period but I slowed down a bit ".
Van Dijk is the third Dutch to have signed the hour record, after Cornelia Van Oosten (43,082 km, in 1978) and Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel (46,065 km in 2003, in Mexico City).
The previous record of the Lowden was 48,405 kilometers, the British had set it on the same track as Granges, where the Italian Filippo Ganna planned to attempt the new men's time record in August: to beat 55,089 km.