Ronan McLaughlin toppled Alberto Contador earlier this year to take the Everesting world record from him but now the Irish cyclist has seen his record fall to an American cyclist.
US rider Sean Gardner became the first person in the world to break the seven-hour mark for Everesting, which became especially popular during the Covid-19 lock-down period.
Gardner recorded a time of 6:59:38 on Tanners Ridge Road in Virginia. He rode just 116km but the climb he chose had an average gradient of 15.5 per cent and hit 22.6 per cent in place.
Gardner completed 51 laps of the same circuit, up and down the same stretch of the climb, to record the 8,848 metres of elevation gain required to count as an Everesting record.
The US rider races with the Philadelphia club, CS Velo,
and like Ronan McLaughlin he works as a coach and had also had an earlier
Everesting attempt - 07:25:59 – before breaking the world record with his
latest effort.
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McLaughlin is now 2nd in the all-time list ahead
of riders like Contador and current WorldTour pro Lachlan Morton (EF Pro
Cycling).
The Irish rider set a new world record on Mamore Gap, Co
Donegal, on July 30th when he recorded a time of 7:04:41, beating multiple
Grand Tour winner Contador by some 20 minutes.
Former An Post-Chainreaction rider, McLaughlin, just over
two
weeks earlier shattered the Irish record when he recorded the fifth fastest
Everesting in the world, with a time of 8 hours 13 minutes.
He took to Mamore Gap in Co Donegal, in Ireland’s north
west, for that effort in mid July and went back to the same climb on Thursday,
July 30th, to try and go even faster.
Incredibly he not only beat his own time but went almost one hour faster, recording a time of 7 hours 18 minutes to secure the world record, an incredible achievement.
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