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Adam Becket

Jeffrey Hoogland smashes one-kilometre time trial world record

Jeffrey Hoogland punches the air in triumph after beating the record.

Jeffrey Hoogland made history on Tuesday, smashing the world record for the one-kilometre time trial on the track.

The Dutchman sped around the track at an average speed of 64.943km/h to set a new record of 55.433 seconds, taking almost a second off the existing record, 56.303 seconds, held by France's François Pervis since 2013. Over the past ten years, no-one else had come close.

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