# 51.151 Kilometers — How Enervit Helped Francesco Moser Break the World Hour Record

> January 23, 1984, Mexico City. Francesco Moser rides 51.151 km in one hour. Behind him is a team that Enervit put together — doctors, trainers, engineers. The birth of Equipe Enervit.

- Published: 1984-01-23

January 23, 1984. Francesco Moser completes his last lap at the Velódromo Olímpico at 2,240 meters above sea level. As the hour runs out, the measuring system shows [**51.151 kilometers**](https://www.enervit.com/en/the-king-of-the-hour). The world hour record, untouched for years, belongs to the man from Trentino. Moser was the man on the bike. But who was behind it?

## The Team Enervit Assembled

Paolo Sorbini founded the Equipe Enervit in 1976. The pharmacist and Enervit founder had been in the sports nutrition business for twenty years at the time. The idea was not just to provide athletes with products, but to systematically combine science and training. For the hour record attempt in Mexico City in 1984, this meant months of preparation with a hand-picked team.

**Prof. Enrico Arcelli** from the University of Milan took over the scientific management. The sports physician and sports scientist coordinated the entire project. **Aldo Sassi** was responsible for the athletic preparation — training control, load planning and building up form over months. **Ferruccio Ferrario** from TestEquipe brought along technology that hardly anyone knew about at the time: a wrist heart rate monitor, developed especially for the project, to monitor Moser in real time during the ride. And **Antonio Dal Monte** took care of the material — lenticular disk wheels, seat position, aerodynamics.

Mexico City was no coincidence. The altitude noticeably reduces air resistance. That was calculation, not luck.

## What Made This Attempt Different

There had been hour record attempts before. What the Equipe Enervit did differently in 1984: a nutrition company took over the overall coordination of a high-performance project. Nutrition, physiology, training methodology and aerodynamics all under one roof. Not as a sponsor with logo rights, but as project manager.

The result was 51.151 kilometers. For Enervit, it was proof that the model worked.

Equipe Enervit still exists today. And it still follows the same principle that Sorbini formulated in 1976: science at the service of the athlete, not the other way around.

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Source: https://kilometro.ch/en/articles/51151-kilometers-how-enervit-helped-francesco-moser-break-the-world-hour-record