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2023 Chrono des Nations (1.1), France

41st edition: Sunday, October 15, 2023

Bill and Carol McGann's book The Story of the Tour de France, Vol 2: 1976 - 2018 is available in print, Kindle eBook & Audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.

Weather at the start/finish city of Les Herbiers at 1:40 PM, local time: 14C (58F), sunny, with the wind from the northeast at 16 km/hr (10 mph). No rain is forecast.

The race: Here's the report from winner Josh Tarling's Team INEOS Grenadiers.

Josh Tarling continued his superb form on the time trial bike to end his season with victory at the Chrono Des Nations.

12 months after winning the Junior TT event in the Vendee, Tarling did it again, capping off his neo-pro campaign in perfect style and debuting his European champion’s skinsuit with a win.

The Welshman was fastest through all three checkpoints across the 45.4-kilometre course, taking an eventual winning margin of 13.5 seconds over world champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal – Quick-Step). Stefan Bisseger (EF Education-EasyPost) rounded out the podium places, 1:10 back.

Tarling was able to gradually extend his margin over Evenepoel, with an initial gap of 10 seconds edging out to 17 at the second intermediate, before bringing it safely across the line in Les Herbiers.

The podium, from left: Remco Evenepoel (2nd), Joshua Tarling (1st) & Stefan Bissegger (3rd).

Complete results:

45.43 kilometers raced at an average speed of 52.386 km/hr

2023 Chrono des Nations map:

Course map