UCI World Championships: Remco Evenepoel wins elite males’s time trial

Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) made historical past on Sunday as the primary elite man so as to add the world time trial victory to the Olympic time trial gold medal, dominating the 46.1km race towards the clock in Zürich with a time of 53:01.

Just a number of hours earlier, Australia’s Grace Brown scored the identical uncommon double victory for elite girls on a 29.9km course.

Double world time trial champion Filippo Ganna (Italy) smashed the 53:56 time of Edoardo Affini to bump his compatriot out of the recent seat, stopping the clock himself at 53:08. However, reigning Olympic champion Evenepoel went 6 seconds quicker to seal the victory, regardless of Ganna gaining again time within the final leg of the race.

Ganna and Affini secured silver and bronze for Italy, with Affini’s medal counting as his greatest at a Road World Championships, lower than two weeks after taking the European title within the self-discipline.

“It took fairly a while to really feel good once more and get good condition, however proper on time,” Evenepoel mentioned on the post-race interview.

“It was a fairly robust day for me. My chain dropped with one minute earlier than the beginning. And then I took the beginning and had no energy metre in any respect so it was a pure time trial on the sensation.

“I pushed fairly exhausting on that second little kick, and I went all-out on the downhill as properly. Without having the facility metre it was fairly loopy to maintain the tempo within the final 5 kilometres.

“In a TT, particularly in a Championship it would not matter what the time hole is. I noticed my time in inexperienced and I felt like celebrating. A reasonably good day once more,” he mentioned with a giant smile.”

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