AeroEdge Hour Record
The records
Riders who took on the hour with AeroEdge, on the UCI-homologated 250 m track at the National Velodrome in Sangalhos.
🇸🇪 Sweden · 4 June 2026
The first hour record set in Portugal
Jonas Bohr came to Anadia with a two-year project behind him and one number in mind. He finished the hour on 48.947 km, in the Masters Men 60-64 category, and became the first rider to set a world-level hour mark in Portugal.
The venue made it harder, not easier. Most indoor velodrome records are set at altitude, where thin air costs the rider less. Sangalhos sits at sea level, so the same speed demands more power. That is the trade the whole preparation was built around: if the air cannot be made thinner, the rider has to be made smaller in it.
Bohr has worked with AeroEdge since 2023. The preparation ran on measured CdA rather than assumption, a pacing curve built for his own physiology, and real-time feedback through the velodrome sound system so he could hold that curve without a screen on the bike. Four days later, on the same track, he rode 100 km in 2:04:48.
Jonas Bohr · UCI
{{JONAS_STATUS}}🇵🇹 Portugal · 4 June 2026
The first official Portuguese men's hour record
Portugal had no official men's hour record. Not a slow one, none at all. On 4 June 2026 Octávio Cardoso rode 47.581 km and set the benchmark every Portuguese rider now has to measure themselves against.
Cardoso teaches mechanical engineering at the Politécnico de Viseu and is one of the people in Portugal who understands best how engineering applies to a bicycle. It showed in how he rode it. The pacing plan held from the first lap to the last, and his strongest five-minute split of the whole hour was the final one, which is what a correctly paced hour looks like and is rarer than it sounds.
He is also the rider who started all of this. On 2 May 2025, on the same track, Cardoso became the first athlete to go through the AeroEdge Hour Record Challenge, riding 46.535 km on a time trial bike. That ride was a test rather than a record attempt, and what it measured is part of why the 2026 one went the way it did.
Octávio Cardoso · FPC
{{OCTAVIO_STATUS}}🇧🇷 Brazil · 4 June 2026
The rules that did not exist yet
Brazil had no written standard for homologating an hour record. Before Gustavo Gaspary could ride for one, the standard had to be agreed: a commissaire panel, anti-doping control by ADOP/ITA, equipment and position control against the UCI jig, certified lap-by-lap timing, and a UCI-homologated track. All of it was put in place, and all of it was paid for by the athlete and the organisers.
He rode 44.536 km under those conditions. The file went to the Confederação Brasileira de Ciclismo and the homologation is still open: during the review the CBC identified a 1984 mark of 45.277 km, and that decision is under discussion. The mark is listed as pending, and it will be updated here when the federation issues its final position, whichever way it goes.
What is not in question is the process. The controls Gaspary's attempt was built to meet are now a documented reference for the next Brazilian rider who wants the record, which did not exist before 4 June 2026.
Gustavo Gaspary · CBC
Under reviewEvent report · Photos by José Tadeia
One day, one track, three records
The Sunlive AeroEdge Hour Record Day put three attempts on the same track in a single day: Gaspary at 10:00, Bohr at 14:15, Cardoso at 17:00. One commissaire structure, one timing team, one anti-doping setup, three separate regulatory frameworks, because a world-level masters mark and a national record are not homologated by the same authority or under the same rules.
That is the point of running them together. The fixed costs of doing an hour record properly, the officials, the controls, the certified timing, are the largest item in the budget and they do not get smaller for one rider. Shared across a day, an attempt that would be out of reach for most riders becomes possible.
AeroEdge handled the technical side, from aerodynamic testing and pacing to live feedback during the hour. Sunlive Group handled logistics: travel, accommodation, transfers, and the event itself.
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