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Ivan Romeo (Spain) pulled out a spectacular remaining 9.4 kilometres to win the boys’s under-23 particular person time trial world championship race on Monday.
Romeo was 20 seconds behind Switzerland’s Jan Christen on the first test atop a gradual climb however made up time on the undulating center part to shut to inside two seconds. Then, Romeo blasted by the flat remaining part to win the rainbow jersey by 41 seconds.
Jakob Soderqvist (Sweden) additionally saved his bullets for the ultimate stretch and cruised in for the silver medal at 32 seconds behind the Spaniard, coming in forward of Christen by eight seconds.
The dwelling nation needed to accept bronze as Christen’s time held even within the face of a stiff problem from final yr’s runner-up Alec Segaert (Belgium), who was quickest on the second test however then imploded within the remaining and completed fourth.
Paul Lomulia (Uganda) set the quickest early time however was quickly eclipsed by Mateusz Gajdulewicz (Poland), however Isaac del Toro (Mexico) was flying and got here by greater than a minute quicker than the Pole.
Portugal’s Antonio Morgado was nicely behind his commerce teammate on the second test and light within the remaining part, dropping behind Matthias Schwarzbacher (Slovakia) to come back third-fastest on the end.
Behind, Adam Rafferty (Ireland) and Christen have been faster than Del Toro on the first test by 22 and 34 seconds, respectively. Soon after, Romeo slotted in second-fastest on the first test after which surpassed Christen on the second test by a single second.
Rafferty got here by on the end six seconds faster than Del Toro and sizzling on his heels, Christen motored throughout the road a full 37 seconds quicker. But the Swiss rider might solely watch as Romeo got here previous 41 seconds forward, having made up an enormous margin in lower than 10km.
Also making up time was Segaert, who got here by the second test with the quickest time, 5 seconds forward of Romeo. Soderqvist made up time within the remaining section to maneuver into second total at 32 seconds.
It was solely as much as Segaert to see if he might get onto the rostrum however he light into fourth.
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