Some of the planet’s quickest racers within the 17 to 18-year-old age group will compete on Monday, September 23 to say the title as males’s junior time trial champion on the 2024 UCI Road World Championships. They will compete on a 24.9km course simply someday after the elite divisions start a full week of competitors in Zürich, Switzerland.
A flat 24.9km race in opposition to the clock will take athletes out-and-back alongside the jap shore of Lake Zürich, which excludes any climbing that the elites face close to Maur to the north at Lake Greifensee and the foothills of the Pfannenstiel. This ought to make the intermediate time examine close to Herrliberg – 9.4km on the outbound part and 15.5km on the return – an in depth examination for seconds within the single digits.
Once the clock stops on Sechseläutenplatz in Zürich, there are a handful of latest riders who ought to be jostling for the recent seat and the rainbow stripes, because the riders from final yr’s junior males’s podium have all aged out of the class. Cyclingnews calls consideration to 5 riders who’re among the many favourites.
Albert Withen Philipsen (Denmark)
Albert Withen Philipsen of Denmark celebrates successful the mens junior street race on the Glasgow Road World Championships (Image credit score: Getty Images)
Philipsen is a multi-discipline world champion at simply 17 years of age. In August final yr, he received junior World titles within the street race and cross-country mountain bike, the 2 victories separated by simply 5 days. He completed the yr with European championships in two disciplines – within the ITT on the street and off-road in XCO. There was no low season for the younger expertise this winter, as he competed within the Cyclocross World Championships and completed fifth within the males’s junior race.
It was no shock that his accomplishments landed him a four-year professional contract to race with Lidl-Trek starting in 2025. A two-time Danish nationwide champion within the time trial, Philipsen might be harmful in Zürich, as he’ll look to take medals in each the ITT and street race in his ultimate yr as a junior.
Nicolas Bialon (Switzerland)
Nicolas Bialon crushed his competitors at Swiss nationals within the time trial, successful the lads’s junior title by 26 seconds. He might be a favorite on house soil, however the distance might not be in his favour. The 17-year-old received the 18.4km Chrono Roland Bouge two weeks in the past, however he was simply exterior the highest 25 at UEC European Continental Championships, that course 31.3km. The flat terrain could also be to his liking on the 24.9km distance.
Michiel Mouris (Netherlands)
Dutch rider § wins the junior males’s time trial on the European Road Championship 2024 (Image credit score: DIRK WAEM / BELGA MAG / Belga by way of AFP / Getty Images)
Fresh off the ITT victory for junior males on the UEC European Championships is Michiel Mouris of the Netherlands. On a 31.3km course in Belgium, the 17-year-old rode to his third particular person time trial victory of the season, which was a stage at Acht van Bladel, which put him third on GC. He was third in a short while trial on stage 2 on the UCI 2.1 Penn Ar Bed – Pays d’Iroise. At UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor he was seventh within the males’s junior occasion.
The Dutch rider received his nation’s nationwide time trial championship, edging his World’s teammate Senna Remijn by one second. The nationals contest was an in depth set-up to what he’ll see on Tuesday, so search for the orange colors of the Dutch rider to put up a quick time.
Ashlin Barry (United States)
Ashlin Barry on his solution to successful the 2024 US males’s junior 17-18 time trial nationwide championship in Charleston, West Virginia (Image credit score: USA Cycling / Snowy Mountain Photography)
Ashlin Barry will make his second look at a World Championships for the USA within the males’s junior time trial. Earlier this yr he made his Worlds debut on the observe and earned a silver medal within the Omnium, lacking the highest spot by one level.
The EF Education-ONTO rider lives in Toronto together with his dad and mom Dede and Michael Barry, each former execs, and registered to experience for Team USA in the beginning of the 2024 season. Barry’s mom ‘Dede’ Demet Barry was a junior street race world champion, and her son might very properly observe swimsuit, as he earned double males’s junior gold medals for the US this yr, successful the ITT and street race whereas including silver within the criterium. He’ll experience the double at Worlds, lining up within the street race three days later and celebrating his seventeenth birthday in between.
Jasper Schoofs (Belgium)
Jasper Schoofs was the silver medallist at Belgian in each the time trial and street race, and he then added the silver within the ITT on the UEC European Championships. He’s one other younger rider with cyclocross expertise, however his foremost focus stays on the street, the place he received 4 one-day races in Belgium and France this yr. Schoofs received the time trial phases at Trophée Centre Morbihan and Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot, and simply previous to the European Championships he received the lads’s junior 21.2km time trial Memorial Igor Decraene.
