Vittoria Bussi will try to set a brand new UCI Hour Report in 2023 in a bid to surpass the present distance of 49.254 kilometres set by Ellen van Dijk on the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen in Could.
The Italian confirmed her subsequent Hour Report try on a Gofundme (opens in new tab) marketing campaign to boost monetary assist for her objective. The fundraiser has reached 71 donations and a complete of €1,785 of its €10,000 goal as of Friday.
“In 2023, I’m able to take it again, and that may be a ‘Highway 2 Report’, virtually prepared, as a result of accessing the Hour Report entails big bills, and to finish the finances that’s wanted to make my try official, I want your assist,” Bussi wrote on the fundraiser web page.
Bussi set the ladies’s UCI Hour Report of 48.007km on the Aguascalientes velodrome in Mexico in 2018, which at the moment, beat the 2016 report of Evelyn Stevens by a slim 27 metres.
Since then, information had been set by Joscelin Lowden at 48.405km in 2021 after which Van Dijk, who presently holds the report at 49.254km, in 2022.
Bussi’s compatriot Filippo Ganna presently holds the lads’s UCI Hour Report, protecting 56.792km on the velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, in October.
A mathematician, Bussi stated that she goals to interrupt the 50km mark in her subsequent try on the girls’s UCI Hour Report.
“I contribute my math abilities to aerodynamic and technological research. I intend to interrupt the 50km barrier and take the ladies’s report past this restrict,” she stated.
Bussi is asking the general public to financially assist her Hour Report try as an unbiased athlete with out a longtime commerce workforce.Â
She stated that she additionally offers again to the game by selling biking security and equality and hopes to determine a biking academy devoted to a brand new era of feminine athletes.
“The report is one thing that goes past sporting achievement. It represents an opportunity that you just give me in the present day and that tomorrow shall be a younger bike owner’s dream; the prospect to imagine and go all the way in which even though the roads forward are sometimes winding for individuals who select to be unbiased athletes and entrepreneurs of themselves,” she stated.
“Sport modifications lives. I’ve skilled it firsthand. On the monitor, I appear alone in opposition to the clock, however alone I by no means am as a result of, with me, I convey all of the individuals who imagine in my wrestle. Thanks to those that need to assist me on this new endeavour.”
