Velodrome Suisse

This is the home of Swiss track cycling, at the foot of the Jura mountains. Many of the best riders in the world have come here to try to break the hour record.

One lap: 250 m
Track: Wood
Banking in the bends: 46°
Banking on the straights: 13°
Width: 7.7 m
Indoor or outdoor: Indoor
Built: 2013
People who can watch: About 1,900

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This velodrome opened in 2013, in the Swiss town of Grenchen, at the foot of the Jura mountains.
The hour record is simple. One rider rides alone on the track, as far as they can in one hour.
Jens Voigt, Rohan Dennis, Dan Bigham and Filippo Ganna all broke the hour record on this very track!
In 2022, Filippo Ganna of Italy rode almost fifty-seven kilometres in one hour, right here. That was a new world record!
Ellen van Dijk of the Netherlands broke the women's hour record here too, in 2022.
The roof here is held up by giant wooden beams, made of thin boards glued together.

The race announcer tells riders these facts at Velodrome Suisse.

Race at Velodrome Suisse

In Watt Fighters you race here on your own bike, on a smart trainer or with a power meter. Your watts move your rider round the track. On the steep bends you need speed, or you slide down the banking. You can race every event here: match sprint, elimination, points race, scratch race, unknown distance, time trial, keirin, flying 200 m, open track.

Race here in Watt Fighters

Velodrome Suisse

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