The hour record is considered one of cycling’s greatest challenges as riders push themselves physically and mentally to the limit.

On Saturday, Dame Sarah Storey’s lung-busting efforts at the Lee Valley Velodrome were not enough to better Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel’s women’s mark of 46.065km set in 2003.

And there is another record, set almost 50 years ago which is still standing today – the women’s 12-hour record – and it was made by Yorkshire housewife Beryl Burton.  More