Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) added the European time trial title to her bulging palmarès, dashing to victory on residence floor in Hasselt forward of Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands).
The reigning Belgian time trial champion accomplished the 31.2km course in a time of 39 minutes at a mean velocity of 47.984kph to assert her first-ever European title.
Along the best way, she led at each intermediate checkpoints, extending her lead because the race went on.
Van Dijk took the silver medal at a deficit of 44 seconds, whereas Christina Schweinberger (Austria) rounded out the rostrum with bronze an additional 19 seconds again, 1:03 behind Kopecky.
The 28-year-old’s win marks the second gold of the Championships for the house nation following Alec Segaert’s triumph within the U23 males’s time trial earlier within the day and the end result breaks a three-year streak by Swiss rider Marlen Reusser, who didn’t participate.
Norway’s Katrine Aalerud was the quickest of the early runners, recording a time of 40:25 to take over the new seat from Mieke Kröger (Germany) by 24 seconds. She’d solely final within the provisional lead for a matter of minutes, nevertheless, with Van Dijk coming by means of to set the quickest time at each checkpoints and the end.
The Dutchwoman was the fifteenth starter of 27 opponents and had received the title 4 occasions in a row between 2016 and 2019. Her time held robust as the following a number of riders, together with Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria), Lisa Klein (Germany), and Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka (Poland) crossed the road.
Vittoria Guazzini (Italy) was the sixth-last girl to complete, taking on second place within the course of with a time of 40:10, however she wouldn’t keep on the rostrum because the late runners got here to the road.
Kopecky’s time on the first checkpoint – 13:25 – was three seconds up on Van Dijk, a bonus she prolonged to fifteen seconds on the second checkpoint. By the end, she had added 29 seconds to that result in take over the new seat.
Only Riejanne Markus (Netherlands) and Schweinberger remained out on the course by that time, although each lagged over a minute behind Kopecky. Markus’ time of 40:06 noticed her briefly take over the bronze medal place earlier than Schweinberger raced residence simply two seconds as much as safe the ultimate spot on the rostrum behind Kopecky and Van Dijk.
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