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Mattia Agostinacchio claimed the junior males’s title for Italy on the 2025 Cyclo-cross World Championships in Liévin after a gripping battle with France’s Soren Bruyère Joumard which lasted till the ultimate lap.
Agostinacchio recovered from a number of crashes, together with one into the fences and one other which broke his shoe halfway by way of the race, however in the end proved the strongest after 45 minutes of all-out racing.
Bruyère Joumard had gone solo after a small mistake from the Italian on lap 4, nevertheless, an enormous push from Agostinacchio firstly of lap six, which coincided with a motorbike change for the Frenchman, meant it was a two-horse race going into the finale.
From there, Agostinacchio put the strain again on and dropped Bruyère Joumard as he produced a flawless ultimate lap, crossing the road with a wheelie and the feelings pouring out 12 seconds forward of the Frenchman.
Italy made it a 1-3 end within the junior males’s race, with Filippo Grigolini working his manner again by way of the sphere to make it onto the rostrum together with his compatriot.
“There aren’t any phrases to explain this emotion,” stated a choked-up Agostinacchio realising the magnitude of what he’d achieved.
Constantly altering circumstances meant for a race that developed lap on lap, with the Italian not sure of how he managed after hitting the deck quite a few instances.
“I do know that after we began it was like frozen and then you definitely get the mud within the race,” recalled Agostinacchio.
“I crashed and I broke my footwear however I did not have the time to regulate it so I simply went all out within the final lap.
“I do not understand how I did it.”
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