Dennis, 24 and winner of the recent Tour Down Under, will be aiming to overhaul the 51.852 kilometres covered in 60 minutes last October by Matthias Brändle of Austria, also in Switzerland, at Aigle.
Brandle beat the previous best of 51.115km set the previous month in Granges, by Jens Voigt of Germany.
Dennis, world pursuit champion in 2011 and Olympic silver medallist in London with the Australian pursuit team, is the first man this year to attack the record.
Britain's Olympic time trial champion and former Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins has already announced he plans a record attempt later in the year.
CYCLING
Aussie seeks record at Swiss cycling venue
Australian cyclist Rohan Dennis will make an assault on the world one hour record at the Granges velodrome in the canton of Fribourg on Sunday.
Published: 6 February 2015 13:06 CET
View of Granges velodrome. Photo: Velodrome Suisse
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