Congratulations to Andrea Devicenzi for setting the 24 hour Outdoor Track Record in these categories: Male, Solo, upright bike, 50-59 age group, Paralympic C2.
He also set these 9 other embedded records shown below.
These 10 are all also new GWR (non-age group) records! Congratulations Andrea! You did it again!
| Distance Event Kilometers | Time | Avg Sp (Km) | Avg Sp (Miles) | |
| 100 Km Outdoor Track | 03:17:30.00 | 30.38 | 18.88 | |
| 200 Km Outdoor Track | 06:59:20.29 | 28.62 | 17.78 | |
| 300 Km Outdoor Track | 10:50:06.71 | 27.69 | 17.20 | |
| 500 Km Outdoor Track | 18:56:22.14 | 26.40 | 16.40 | |
| Distance Event Miles | Time | Avg Sp (Miles) | Avg Sp (Km) | |
| 100 Mile Outdoor Track | 05:33:02.85 | 18.02 | 28.99 | |
| 200 Mile Outdoor Track | 11:46:09.91 | 16.99 | 27.35 | |
| 300 Mile Outdoor Track | 18:08:02.01 | 16.54 | 26.62 | |
| Timed Event | Miles | Kilometers | Avg Sp (Miles) | Avg Sp (Km) |
| 6 Hour Outdoor Track | 107.970 | 173.761 | 18.00 | 28.96 |
| 12 Hour Outdoor Track | 203.736 | 327.881 | 16.98 | 27.32 |
| 24 Hour Outdoor Track | 387.607 | 623.792 | 16.15 | 25.99 |
Ride Report:
WUCA — RIDER’S NARRATIVE SUMMARY
Record attempt
24-Hour road course record attempt, with embedded time and distance records (6 hours, 12 hours, 100 km, 100 miles, 200 km, 200 miles, 300 km, 300 miles, 500 km) — LA PISTA circuit, Lainate (Milan), Italy. Category: Male, [Paralympic C-class — insert official designation], Standard bike (TT format), Officiated.
Name of rider
Andrea Devicenzi (Italy) — left-leg amputee since 1990, riding with one leg.
Start date and exact start time
Saturday, 12 September 2026, 18:00:00 CEST.
Exact start location
The start/finish line of LA PISTA circuit in Lainate (Milan), Italy — the historic former Alfa Romeo proving ground, today a certified motorsport circuit managed by ACI Vallelunga, located next to the IL CENTRO shopping mall in Arese. Certified lap length for the record: 1,400 m.
Exact finish location and finish time
Same start/finish line of LA PISTA circuit, Lainate. Finish time: Sunday, 13 September 2026, 18:00:00 CEST, after 24 hours of riding. Provisional total distance: 623.82 km (445 laps), pending WUCA certification.
What were conditions like?
Dry for the entire 24 hours. Around 30°C at the start on Saturday evening, then a very humid night: temperature dropped below 20°C with humidity up to 88%, which made the air heavy and slowed lap times between 3 and 5 a.m. Warm and sunny again on Sunday, with rising temperatures through the afternoon. Tyre pressures were adjusted at the stops to follow the air temperature.
Why did you want to do this record?
In June 2025 I set ten records on the indoor velodrome of Palma de Mallorca (602.990 km in 24 hours, fixed gear). This attempt was the second half of my “20GWR” project: twenty records with one leg. I wanted to prove that the same distance, and more, was possible outdoors, on a real road circuit with wind, gradients, real corners and a humid night, and to do it with my team and with the students of my educational project “Oltre l’Impossibile” working in the box.
What equipment did you use? Anything special?
A one-of-a-kind time-trial bike: the X24 Challenge, designed and built around my body by TiRED with TOOT Engineering (Romolo Stanco and his team). Geometry developed specifically for single-leg pedalling, 155 mm crank, custom 3D-printed saddle based on pressure analysis, and a “lift and coast” philosophy: holding speed with minimum power. One special detail: since a Garmin cannot be read in real time from outside, I carried the smallest GPS logger available in my pocket; at every stop my crew downloaded the file and our engineer analysed it, motorsport-style, giving me precise instructions for the next stint.
What did you eat and drink?
A single solid dish for the whole record, tested for months: rice balls made of basmati rice, tamari sauce, oil, beetroot, chopped nuts, avocado and dates, measured by the spoon. Carbohydrate drink mix and water in rotation, energy gels, cola every two hours, ice slush during the hot hours, and a taurine gel reserved for the final hours. Ice packs on my back during the hottest part of the day. Stops of 5 minutes: the first after three hours, then one every two hours.
What was the best part?
The final hour. With 58 minutes to go, all ten records were already secured. At lap 435, after twenty-three and a half hours of riding, I rode my fastest lap of the entire attempt: 2:14.967. Then the bell on the last pass, and the confetti at the finish, with my whole team and the public on the fence.
What was the hardest part?
The humid night. Between 3 and 5 a.m. the heavy air raised lap times and cadence dropped in the uphill hairpin, stressing my leg. We reacted at a stop with a lighter gear in that sector: the effort came down, cadence returned to normal, and pace came back with the first daylight. It was the point where the whole year of preparation, and the lesson of my hour-12 crisis in Palma, paid off: this time the second half of the ride was the strongest part.
Did anything particularly unusual happen?
Two things. The GPS relay at every stop (pocket, download, WhatsApp, analysis, instructions, all within 5 minutes) turned a bicycle record into something closer to an endurance motorsport operation. And the timekeeper coming out of his booth in the final hour, shouting the 2:14.967 lap time after 23 hours of riding, was a moment nobody in the box will forget.
Andrea Devicenzi — LA PISTA, Lainate (Milan), Italy — 12/13 September 2026