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Dan Bigham individual pursuit
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Dan Bigham has announced that he will attempt to topple Victor Campanaerts’ hour record on Friday, August 19. 

Since Campanaerts broke Bradley Wiggins’ mark of 54.526km - which Bigham has already bested - in 2019 at the Aguascalientes velodrome, five riders have attempted, and failed, to break Campanaerts' record. 

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Tom Epton
Freelance writer

Tom Epton is a freelance writer and data scientist. Originally training as a scientist after completing his studies in physics he realised that cycling was what he wanted to spend his life thinking about. Now he works with manufacturers, athletes and teams using cutting edge data science methods to find performance gains. Tom writes primarily about sport-science and tech!