Taylor Knibb shocked the sector on Wednesday and received her first elite ladies’s time trial nationwide title on the USA Cycling Pro Road Championships. Along with the stars-and-stripes jersey, the US Olympian in triathlon additionally secured a spot with USA Cycling for the Paris Olympic Games.
Kristen Faulkner was the closest among the many favourites to complete within the wake of Knibb’s finest time of 41:54, the EF Education-Cannondale rider stopping the clock 11 seconds behind Knibb and securing the silver medal.
In third place was Amber Neben, 49 seconds off the very best time. Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health) completed fourth, 53 seconds again, and Lauren Stephens (Cynisca Cycling) accomplished her journey 1:41 down for fifth.
It was not an entire shock to see Knibb blast throughout the flat course alongside the banks of the Kanawha River in downtown Charleston, West Virginia, as she was fourth within the occasion final 12 months on a hillier route in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The elite ladies coated two laps of the downtown out-and-back course for a complete distance of 20.9 miles (33.7km).
Faulkner matched Knibb’s scorching time of 20:59 on the half-way level of the race and so they have been the one two riders to cowl the opening lap in underneath 21 minutes. From there, Knibb by no means let go of the accelerator and secured the victory.
This might be Knibb’s second look at an Olympic Games, as she completed sixteenth for Team USA in ladies’s triathlon in Tokyo, and in addition received a silver medal within the blended relay. Last 12 months she certified for the US Triathlon workforce, so now can take part in two disciplines in Paris. She is a two-time world champion within the ladies’s Ironman 70.3, successful back-to-back in 2022 and 2023.
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