text: CYCLING - BOARDMAN BREAKS WORLD 4,000 METRES RECORD . MANCHESTER , England 1996-08-28 Britain 's Chris Boardman broke the world 4,000 metres cycling record by more than six seconds at the world championships on Wednesday . Boardman clocked four minutes 13.353 seconds in the qualifying round of the individual pursuit event to beat the previous mark of 4:19.699 set by Andrea Collinelli of Italy at the Atlanta Olympics on July 24 .