2018 World Road Cycling Championships
85th edition: Sept 23 - 30, 2018
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
World Road Cycling Championships podium history | 2017 edition | 2019 edition
Road race: Elite Women | Junior Women | Elite Men | Men U23 | Junior Men
Individual Time Trial: Elite Women | Junior Women | Elite Men | Men U23 | Junior Men
Team Time Trial: Women results | Men results
Sunday, September 30: Elite Men's Road Race, 258.0 km
Alejandro Valverde is the new world champion. Team Movistar photo
Weather at Innsbruck at 2:20 PM: 21C (69F), Fair, with the wind from the ENE at 3 km/hr (2 mph). No rain is forecast.
The race: Three-time world champion Peter Sagan abandoned with about 90 kilometers to go.
Speaking seconds after the race the winner Alejandro Valverde said: “The truth is, this is incredible. I’ve fought for many years, and finally I get it. The Spanish national team was attentive in every moment in the race. I controlled the distance from the finishing line. It was a very long sprint. I took my responsibilities and I launched my sprint at 350 metres, which was perfect for me. It’s the win of the national selection, of all the people who like me and support me. I’m speechless because I don’t believe it. I’ve been close many times. I’ve had several medals but I was still missing the gold. I’m caught by a huge emotion.”
Here's the UCI's race report:
After two silvers and four bronze medals in the UCI Road World Championships, at 38 Spanish veteran Alejandro Valverde has finally netted gold in the Elite Men’s Road Race, ahead of France’s Romain Bardet and Canada’s Michael Woods.
Valverde proved to be the fastest of a drawn-out four rider sprint that decided the final race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships, clinching Spain’s first gold medal in the Elite Men’s Road Race since Oscar Freire triumphed for a third time back in 2004.
For Valverde, finally donning the rainbow jersey of World Champion ends a hunt for victory in the Elite Men’s Road Race that began back in 2003, when the rider from Murcia in SE Spain claimed silver in the Championships in Hamilton, Canada.
Since then Valverde has taken silver in the same event on home soil in Madrid in 2005 behind Tom Boonen of Belgium, and bronze in 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014. But never gold - until Sunday.
“It’s incredible, I’ve been fighting and fighting for so long for this and I have to thank the team for their hard work for me, they get a ten out of ten,” a visibly emotional Valverde said afterwards. “It was a very long sprint and not easy because the other guys in the breakaway had made sure I was doing a lot of the work in the final part.”
“But I opened up the sprint with 300 metres to go, which is the distance I’m best at for sprints, and I got it. Words fail me, to be honest, it’s a dream come true that I’ve finally got the gold.”
“What was I thinking about in the last kilometre? That in a situation like this, I just couldn’t fail, with all the support I’ve had from people over all these years to try and do this.”
On one of the hilliest courses in modern World Championships history, culminating with an ascent of the dauntingly steep Höttinger Höll climb and a fast drop back to Innsbruck, Valverde and the other favourites’ teams mostly preferred to play a waiting game. Soon after the race’s 188 strong pack eased out of the small start town of Kufstein on Sunday in warm, dry weather, therefore, an early break of 11 was allowed to gain up a surprisingly high maximum lead of 19 minutes before some of the stronger squads began to reel them back in.
As the French, Austrians, British and Spanish moved to the front, steadily cutting into the break’s lead, and as the repeated assaults of the seven kilometre Mount Igls - seven in total on the 23 kilometre Olympic circuit - began to tell, defending World Champion Peter Sagan (Slovakia) dropped quickly out of contention.
Great Britain’s Peter Kennaugh, Belgium’s Greg Van Avermaet and Italy’s Gianpaolo Caruso were amongst those who tested the water on the second last lap. But as the 60-strong peloton roared through Innsbruck’s finish line for a penultimate time, there were still only two riders ahead from the early break - Vegard Stake Laengen (Norway) and Kasper Asgreen (Denmark) - and not a single counter-attack had managed to stick.
The stalemate finally broke apart, though, as Italy sucked back in the two Scandinavian riders on the Igls climb and a third, Denmark’s Michael Valgren, then shot away over the top. The 2018 Amstel Gold Race winner had an advantage of 30 seconds on a chase group of some 40 riders as the race swept back down to Innsbruck, although favourites like Vincenzo Nibali (Italy), 2014 Road World Champion Michal Kwiatkowski and Vuelta a España winner Simon Yates (Great Britain) were already out of the running.
Valgren still had a gap at the foot of the crunch climb of Höttinger Höll, but the combined effects of slopes reaching up to 28 percent in places and a French team in hot pursuit saw him fall back. Instead, as the punishingly steep climb grew ever tougher, Bardet, Woods and Valverde managed to strike clear of a fast-shortening single line of riders, with Italy’s Gianni Moscon and Netherlands rider Tom Dumoulin amongst the last to be dropped by the trio.
Holding an advantage of around 15 seconds on Dumoulin at the summit, the leading trio picked their way carefully down the technical descent, with Valverde doing much of the work. Dumoulin, though, was determined not to be left out of the fight and the Netherlands rider had the three leaders in his sights as the road finally levelled out once again.
Dumoulin finally closed the gap on Valverde, Bardet and Woods in the last two kilometres, and even tried to ambush them almost within sight of the finish. Instead, Valverde quickly closed down the gap, and then, having kept his rivals firmly under control, opened up the sprint with 300 metres to go.
At that point, given the Spaniard’s tried and tested turn of speed in small group sprints, victory for Valverde, at long last, was a near formality, and his 15-year quest for gold in the UCI Road World Championships finally ended in success.
Complete Results:
188 starters from 44 nations, 112 DNF, 76 classified finishers
258 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.064 km/hr
| 1 | VALVERDE Alejandro | Spain | 6hr 46min 41sec |
| 2 | BARDET Romain | France | s.t. |
| 3 | WOODS Michael | Canada | s.t. |
| 4 | DUMOULIN Tom | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 5 | MOSCON Gianni | Italy | @ 13sec |
| 6 | KREUZIGER Roman | Czech Republic | @ 43sec |
| 7 | VALGREN Michael | Denmark | s.t. |
| 8 | ALAPHILIPPE Julian | France | s.t. |
| 9 | PINOT Thibaut | France | s.t. |
| 10 | COSTA Rui | Portugal | s.t. |
| 11 | IZAGIRRE Ion | Spain | s.t. |
| 12 | MOLLEMA Bauke | Netherlands | 0:49 |
| 13 | NIEVE Mikel | Spain | 0:52 |
| 14 | OOMEN Sam | Netherlands | 1:21 |
| 15 | QUINTANA Nairo | Colombia | s.t. |
| 16 | KENNAUGH Peter | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 17 | HIRT Jan | Czech Republic | s.t. |
| 18 | BENNETT George | New Zealand | s.t. |
| 19 | HAIG Jack | Australia | s.t. |
| 20 | FUGLSANG Jakob | Denmark | s.t. |
| 21 | POZZOVIVO Domenico | Italy | s.t. |
| 22 | ZEITS Andrey | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 23 | HERMANS Ben | Belgium | 1:32 |
| 24 | GESCHKE Simon | Germany | 1:54 |
| 25 | CHERNETSKI Sergei | Russia | 2:00 |
| 26 | FRANK Mathias | Switzerland | 2:10 |
| 27 | KRUIJSWIJK Steven | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 28 | TOLHOEK Antwan | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 29 | TEUNS Dylan | Belgium | s.t. |
| 30 | EIKING Odd Christian | Norway | 2:42 |
| 31 | MOLARD Rudy | France | s.t. |
| 32 | REICHENBACH Sébastien | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 33 | URÁN Rigoberto | Colombia | 2:57 |
| 34 | ROGLIČ Primož | Slovenia | 4:00 |
| 35 | MAJKA Rafał | Poland | s.t. |
| 36 | LUTSENKO Alexey | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 37 | YATES Adam | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 38 | KELDERMAN Wilco | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 39 | OLIVEIRA Nelson | Portugal | 5:00 |
| 40 | DE MARCHI Alessandro | Italy | 5:05 |
| 41 | KUDUS Merhawi | Eritrea | 5:44 |
| 42 | MEURISSE Xandro | Belgium | s.t. |
| 43 | LAENGEN Vegard Stake | Norway | s.t. |
| 44 | DE LA CRUZ David | Spain | 5:56 |
| 45 | GOGL Michael | Austria | s.t. |
| 46 | BUCHMANN Emanuel | Germany | s.t. |
| 47 | SIVAKOV Pavel | Russia | 6:00 |
| 48 | HENAO Sergio | Colombia | 6:02 |
| 49 | NIBALI Vincenzo | Italy | s.t. |
| 50 | VAN AVERMAET Greg | Belgium | 8:08 |
| 51 | KOCHETKOV Pavel | Russia | s.t. |
| 52 | ASGREEN Kasper | Denmark | 10:22 |
| 53 | PELLIZOTTI Franco | Italy | 10:33 |
| 54 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Norway | 12:24 |
| 55 | VINJEBO Emil | Denmark | 12:57 |
| 56 | OWSIAN Łukasz | Poland | 13:05 |
| 57 | ZAKARIN Ilnur | Russia | s.t. |
| 58 | GALLOPIN Tony | France | s.t. |
| 59 | KONRAD Patrick | Austria | s.t. |
| 60 | MORABITO Steve | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 61 | HERRADA Jesús | Spain | 13:09 |
| 62 | SKUJIŅŠ Toms | Latvia | 13:13 |
| 63 | BOOKWALTER Brent | USA | 14:23 |
| 64 | CARUSO Damiano | Italy | s.t. |
| 65 | CATALDO Dario | Italy | s.t. |
| 66 | CARTHY Hugh | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 67 | ROCHE Nicolas | Ireland | s.t. |
| 68 | WELLENS Tim | Belgium | s.t. |
| 69 | WEENING Pieter | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 70 | POWER Robert | Australia | s.t. |
| 71 | CARAPAZ Richard | Ecuador | 14:48 |
| 72 | KING Ben | USA | 15:57 |
| 73 | SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo | Argentina | 16:51 |
| 74 | DENZ Nico | Germany | 18:17 |
| 75 | BRAMBILLA Gianluca | Italy | 19:35 |
| 76 | BRITTON Rob | Canada | 19:37 |
World Road championship photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Looks like a lovely day for a bike race in the Alps.
Another shot of the peloton in the Tyrolean Alps.
The peloton speeds through Innsbruck
The race and the rainbow jersey is Valverde's
Gianni Moscon finished fifth a few seconds later.
Alejandro Valverde celebrates right after the race.
Alejandro Vavlerde finally has a rainbow jersey.
The podium, from left: Romain Bardet (2nd), Alejandro Valverde (1st) & Michael Woods (3rd)
Saturday, September 29: Elite Women's Road Race, 155.6 km
Anna van der Breggen is champion of the world. Her nearest chaser is almost four minutes back! Sirotti photo
The race: Here's the report from winner Anna van der Breggen's Boels-Dolmans team.
Anna van der Breggen has won the world road championships on Saturday after an impressive solo ride. She had plenty of time to celebrate as she arrived at the finish line, taking her long sought-after world title. The gold medal and world title add to her double silver performance at the team time trial and individual time trial earlier this week. Van der Breggen was joined on the podium by Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott, Australia) and Tatiana Guderzo (Team Hitec, Italy).
The Olympic champion and former European champion succeeds her teammate and compatriot Chantal Blaak as the wearer of the rainbow jersey. For the fourth year in a row, Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team will be home to the world road champion, after Lizzie Deignan won the event in Richmond, USA in 2015 and Amalie Dideriksen in Qatar in 2016. It was an emotional win for the usually very down to earth Van der Breggen.
"That's because of the long build-up to this event, it's quite a stressful preparation ahead of the world championships," explained Van der Breggen. "I knew this was the perfect course for me, but it was such a long wait to get here. This morning, I didn't want to see anyone and thought: just let us get on the bikes. This was a big goal for me and it wasn't a secret, so there was a lot coming at me. I didn't expect to win like this."
After exciting world road races in the junior and U23 categories, the anticipation was high for the women’s elite race. The women did not disappoint, with Team NL lining up as the absolute favourites today. A lead group formed on the climb to Gnadenwald, with lots of Dutch riders represented indeed.
Everything came back together in the descent, though, after which several groups got off the front shortly, Boels-Dolmans regularly represented in these groups as well. None of these groups were given more than 1’15” advantage, but the last one contained Spratt, a dangerous outsider for the win. Therefore Van der Breggen made her race-winning move in the second lap.
"Spratt was off the front and we know we can't give her too much space," said Van der Breggen. "Lucinda [Brand] therefore tried to keep the gap to a minimum but attacking and later just pulling at the front. Then Annemiek [van Vleuten] opened with an attack. We couldn't wait any longer. That was the beginning, I attacked after that."
Spratt was able to stay in Van der Breggen's wheel the longest, but eventually had to let her go too at 40 kilometers from the finish line. Like we know from Van der Breggen's previous victories, long solos are no problem for her. With a little help from her compatriots in the peloton, Van der Breggen only increased her lead in the final 40 kilometres of the race, cheered on by the numerous fans along the road. She was able to start celebrating well before reaching the finish line.
"I thought it was early to go, but I reached Spratt quite quickly," said Van der Breggen. "Then I was by myself early on, so I just had to focus on eating and drinking well, and pacing. I knew I had to do that climb again by myself. I also had barely any info on what the time gap was, how far I was off the front."
"At one point, I knew that my advantage hovered around two minutes on the climb, but I have experienced way too often this season that either I did something wrong or that I was caught back. So I just kept on riding."
Spratt soloed her way to a silver medal, while Guderzo managed to take bronze by attacking out of the peloton with one lap to go, together with Karol-Ann Canuel and Amy Pieters. Canuel added a sixth place to her eighth place in the individual time trial, Pieters finished eighth. In her very last road race, Megan Guarnier finished sixteenth.
Complete results:
149 starters from 48 nations, 68 DNF, 81 classified finishers
155.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.185 km/hr
| 1 | VAN DER BREGGEN Anna | Netherlands | 4:hr 11min 4sec |
| 2 | SPRATT Amanda | Australia | @ 3min 42sec |
| 3 | GUDERZO Tatiana | Italy | 5:26 |
| 4 | FAHLIN Emilia | Sweden | 6:13 |
| 5 | JASINSKA Małgorzata | Poland | s.t. |
| 6 | CANUEL Karol-Ann | Canada | 6:17 |
| 7 | VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek | Netherlands | 7:05 |
| 8 | PIETERS Amy | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 9 | BRAND Lucinda | Netherlands | 7:17 |
| 10 | WINDER Ruth | USA | s.t. |
| 11 | LELEIVYTE Rasa | Lithuania | s.t. |
| 12 | NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna | Poland | s.t. |
| 13 | LONGO BORGHINI Elisa | Italy | s.t. |
| 14 | POIDEVIN Sara | Canada | s.t. |
| 15 | IAKOVENKO Anastasia | Russia | s.t. |
| 16 | GUARNIER Megan | USA | s.t. |
| 17 | MOOLMAN Ashleigh | South Africa | s.t. |
| 18 | KOPPENBURG Clara | Germany | s.t. |
| 19 | GARCIA Margarita | Spain | s.t. |
| 20 | MAGNALDI Erica | Italy | s.t. |
| 21 | HALL Katie | USA | s.t. |
| 22 | NEFF Jolanda | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 23 | LUDWIG Cecilie | Denmark | 7:22 |
| 24 | KENNEDY Lucy | Australia | 7:31 |
| 25 | KIRCHMANN Leah | Canada | 8:18 |
| 26 | ROWE Danielle | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 27 | SIERRA Arlenis | Cuba | s.t. |
| 28 | DE VUYST Sofie | Belgium | s.t. |
| 29 | BORGLI Stine | Norway | s.t. |
| 30 | BATAGELJ Polona | Slovenia | s.t. |
| 31 | RIVERA Coryn | USA | s.t. |
| 32 | NILSSON Hanna | Sweden | s.t. |
| 33 | PINTAR Urša | Slovenia | s.t. |
| 34 | MERINO Eider | Spain | s.t. |
| 35 | GILLOW Shara | Australia | s.t. |
| 36 | FREI Sina | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 37 | LANGVAD Annika | Denmark | s.t. |
| 38 | PITEL Edwige | France | s.t. |
| 39 | VYSOTSKA Yevgenia | Ukraine | s.t. |
| 40 | VAN DE VELDE Julie | Belgium | s.t. |
| 41 | WRIGHT Sophie | Great Britain | 8:36 |
| 42 | VAN DEN STEEN Kelly | Belgium | 9:00 |
| 43 | LORVIK Ingrid | Norway | s.t. |
| 44 | BLAAK Chantal | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 45 | BARNES Hannah | Great Britain | 10:58 |
| 46 | LIPPERT Liane | Germany | s.t. |
| 47 | WILLIAMS Georgia | New Zealand | 11:01 |
| 48 | BROWN Grace | Australia | s.t. |
| 49 | SHAPIRA Omer | Israel | 11:14 |
| 50 | MICHIELS Githa | Belgium | 12:32 |
| 51 | JACKSON Alison | Canada | 12:48 |
| 52 | MORENO Blanca | Colombia | 13:01 |
| 53 | SANTESTEBAN Ane | Spain | s.t. |
| 54 | CHAPMAN Brodie | Australia | s.t. |
| 55 | NOVOLODSKAIA Mariia | Russia | 13:10 |
| 56 | SHEKEL Olga | Ukraine | 13:46 |
| 57 | LLAMAS Lorena | Spain | 14:05 |
| 58 | PIRRONE Elena | Italy | s.t. |
| 59 | TAZREITER Angelika | Austria | 14:26 |
| 60 | VAN DIJK Ellen | Netherlands | 14:29 |
| 61 | LABOUS Juliette | France | s.t. |
| 62 | YAPURA Fernanda | Argentina | s.t. |
| 63 | BERTIZZOLO Sofia | Italy | s.t. |
| 64 | CHRISTMAS Dani | Great Britain | 14:51 |
| 65 | KERN Spela | Slovenia | s.t. |
| 66 | ANDERSON Grace | New Zealand | s.t. |
| 67 | ZIGART Urska | Slovenia | 14:55 |
| 68 | PLICHTA Anna | Poland | 16:05 |
| 69 | ENSING Janneke | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 70 | KLIMOVA Diana | Russia | 18:04 |
| 71 | DIDERIKSEN Amalie | Denmark | s.t. |
| 72 | PALADIN Soraya | Italy | s.t. |
| 73 | CORDON-RAGOT Audrey | France | s.t. |
| 74 | BERGEN Sara | Canada | 18:20 |
| 75 | SUBERCASEAUX Stephanie | Chile | 18:44 |
| 76 | PATIÑO Paula | Colombia | s.t. |
| 77 | SAIFUTDINOVA Natalya | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 78 | BOHÉ Caroline | Denmark | s.t. |
| 79 | YONAMINE Eri | Japan | 20:47 |
| 80 | KOREVAAR Jeanne | Netherlands | 22:33 |
| 81 | RIJKES Sarah | Austria | 23:06 |
Friday, September 28: Men Under 23 Road Race, 179.5 km
Marc Hirschi is the new U23 Men's' World Road Race Champion
The Race: Here's the report from winner Marc Hirschi's Team Sunweb.
Development Team Sunweb's Marc Hirschi (SWI) has taken the U23 rainbow stripes after a stellar dominant performance in Innsbruck, Austria today. Signed to the team's WorldTour program from 2019, 20-year-old Hirschi was in a three-man decisive move at the front of the race in the final 15 kilometres, perfectly timing his attack on the descent to solo away from his companions and take the U23 world road race title.
Speaking after his win, Hirschi said: "We were really strong throughout the race as a team. We knew the descent well, but thought it would be too easy to attack and make the difference there. I knew I could win from a sprint in a small group, but I decided to attack because of the tailwind and corners in the final kilometres. Throughout the race I was always in the perfect groups and had enough energy left for the final. I can't believe it, it's amazing."
Team Sunweb coach Sebastian Deckert (GER) said: "We are all really happy and super proud of Marc and what he did today. He has been on a high level throughout the season and he has consistently shown how strong he is; to win this is just 'wow'. The whole Swiss team did a great job today. Marc behaved tactically to perfection, and showed just how well he knows his own body. His attack was timed brilliantly and he showed that he knows exactly what to do. This is a great finish to his time as an U23 rider as he moves up to the WorldTour with us next year."
Complete Results:
178 starters from 52 nations, 88 DNF, 90 classified finishers
179.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.783 km/hr
| 1 | HIRSCHI Marc | Switzerland | 4hr 24:05 |
| 2 | LAMBRECHT Bjorg | Belgium | @ 15sec |
| 3 | HÄNNINEN Jaakko | Finland | s.t. |
| 4 | MÄDER Gino | Switzerland | 0:35 |
| 5 | PADUN Mark | Ukraine | 0:37 |
| 6 | CASTRILLO Jaime | Spain | 0:45 |
| 7 | POGAČAR Tadej | Slovenia | 0:47 |
| 8 | HAYTER Ethan | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 9 | MÜLLER Patrick | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 10 | SHAW James | Great Britain | s.t. |
| 11 | HINDLEY Jai | Australia | s.t. |
| 12 | CHAMPOUSSIN Clément | France | s.t. |
| 13 | PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien | France | @ 1min 6sec |
| 14 | ZIMMERMANN Georg | Germany | s.t. |
| 15 | VLASOV Aleksandr | Russia | 1:07 |
| 16 | BATTISTELLA Samuele | Italy | s.t. |
| 17 | STANNARD Robert | Australia | 2:48 |
| 18 | DE BOD Stefan | South Africa | 3:21 |
| 19 | FEDELI Alessandro | Italy | s.t. |
| 20 | DUNBAR Eddie | Ireland | 3:23 |
| 21 | HONORÉ Mikkel | Denmark | 3:46 |
| 22 | FOSS Tobias | Norway | s.t. |
| 23 | KÄMNA Lennard | Germany | 3:50 |
| 24 | BAGIOLI Andrea | Italy | s.t. |
| 25 | POWLESS Neilson | USA | 4:28 |
| 26 | DONOVAN Mark | Great Britain | 4:45 |
| 27 | MADOUAS Valentin | France | 4:57 |
| 28 | NEUHAUSER Marcel | Austria | s.t. |
| 29 | KANTER Max | Germany | 5:41 |
| 30 | EENKHOORN Pascal | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 31 | PEÁK Barnabás | Hungary | s.t. |
| 32 | PAREDES Wilmar | Colombia | s.t. |
| 33 | VERSCHAEVE Viktor | Belgium | s.t. |
| 34 | TOUPALIK Adam | Czech Republic | s.t. |
| 35 | CHERKASOV Nikolay | Russia | s.t. |
| 36 | AZURMENDI Ibai | Spain | s.t. |
| 37 | BJERG Mikkel | Denmark | s.t. |
| 38 | CARVALHO Goncalo | Portugal | s.t. |
| 39 | PRIMOZIC Jaka | Slovenia | s.t. |
| 40 | WELDU Hafetab | Ethiopia | s.t. |
| 41 | PARRA José Félix | Spain | s.t. |
| 42 | BENNETT Sean | USA | s.t. |
| 43 | ARENSMAN Thymen | Netherlands | 5:45 |
| 44 | GREGAARD Jonas | Denmark | 5:48 |
| 45 | CRAS Steff | Belgium | 5:53 |
| 46 | ERIKSSON Lucas | Sweden | 7:57 |
| 47 | ADRIA Roger | Spain | 8:35 |
| 48 | FLÓREZ Miguel | Colombia | s.t. |
| 49 | CEPEDA Jefferson | Ecuador | s.t. |
| 50 | FUERTES Joel | Ecuador | s.t. |
| 51 | CARVALHO Andre | Portugal | 9:27 |
| 52 | STORER Michael | Australia | s.t. |
| 53 | MONACO Alessandro | Italy | s.t. |
| 54 | RUBIO Einer | Colombia | s.t. |
| 55 | PRODHOMME Nicolas | France | 9:54 |
| 56 | RUEGG Lukas | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 57 | MAŁECKI Kamil | Poland | 10:47 |
| 58 | BUSSARD Dimitri | Switzerland | s.t. |
| 59 | SLEEN Torjus | Norway | s.t. |
| 60 | OTRUBA Jakub | Czech Republic | s.t. |
| 61 | LEKNESSUND Andreas | Norway | s.t. |
| 62 | STORK Florian | Germany | s.t. |
| 63 | GALL Felix | Austria | s.t. |
| 64 | VINGEGAARD Jonas | Denmark | 10:49 |
| 65 | VALTER Attila | Hungary | 11:52 |
| 66 | VILLALOBOS Luis | Mexico | s.t. |
| 67 | GENIETS Kevin | Luxembourg | s.t. |
| 68 | BRKIC Benjamin | Austria | 14:08 |
| 69 | WILLIAMS Stephen | Great Britain | 16:25 |
| 70 | COVI Alessandro | Italy | 16:29 |
| 71 | LEYDER Pit | Luxembourg | 19:25 |
| 72 | MAAS Jan | Netherlands | s.t. |
| 73 | KLARIS Magnus | Denmark | s.t. |
| 74 | MCNULTY Brandon | USA | s.t. |
| 75 | KURIANOV Stepan | Russia | s.t. |
| 76 | OSORIO Alejandro | Colombia | s.t. |
| 77 | RIES Michel | Luxembourg | s.t. |
| 78 | ALMEIDA João | Portugal | s.t. |
| 79 | GIDICH Yevgeniy | Kazakhstan | s.t. |
| 80 | CHRISTENSEN Ryan | New Zealand | 21:36 |
| 81 | MULUBRHAN Henok | Eritrea | s.t. |
| 82 | WIRTGEN Luc | Luxembourg | s.t. |
| 83 | ARERUYA Joseph | Rwanda | s.t. |
| 84 | MCDUNPHY Conn | Ireland | s.t. |
| 85 | CHRÉTIEN Charles-Étienne | Canada | s.t. |
| 86 | CARDENAS Jordan | Ecuador | s.t. |
| 87 | DINA Márton | Hungary | s.t. |
| 88 | BARCELÓ Fernando | Spain | s.t. |
| 89 | STEDMAN Maximilian | Great Britain | 21:53 |
| 90 | ANDERSEN Idar | Norway | 23:05 |
Thursday, September 27: Junior Men's Road Race, 131.8 km
Remco Evenpoel has earned two Rainbow Jerseys in one week. On Tuesday he became the Junior World Time Trial Champion. He has certainly earned the right to celebrate on the finish line.
Complete results:
159 starters from 54 nations, 75 DNF, 84 classified finishers
131.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.021 km/hr
| 1 | EVENEPOEL Remco | BELGIUM | 3hr 3min 49sec |
| 2 | MAYRHOFER Marius | GERMANY | @ 1min 25sec |
| 3 | FANCELLU Alessandro | ITALY | +1:38 |
| 4 | BALMER Alexandre | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 5 | WANDAHL Frederik | DENMARK | +3:20 |
| 6 | BENEDETTI Gabriele | ITALY | s.t. |
| 7 | CHARRIN Aloïs | FRANCE | s.t. |
| 8 | VERMAERKE Kevin | USA | s.t. |
| 9 | TIBERI Antonio | ITALY | s.t. |
| 10 | QUINN Sean | USA | +3:25 |
| 11 | PICCOLO Andrea | ITALY | +4:37 |
| 12 | VACEK Karel | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 13 | HAILU Biniam | ERITREA | +6:41 |
| 14 | GEßNER Jakob | GERMANY | s.t. |
| 15 | AASHEIM Ludvig | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 16 | MOTA Guilherme | PORTUGAL | s.t. |
| 17 | TULETT Ben | GREAT BRITAIN | +7:20 |
| 18 | BECH Aksel | DENMARK | s.t. |
| 19 | BÖGLI Jonathan | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 20 | HOLLYMAN Mason | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 21 | FRIGO Marco | ITALY | +7:54 |
| 22 | BRUSSENSKIY Gleb | KAZAKHSTAN | +9:34 |
| 23 | FEDOROV Yevgeniy | KAZAKHSTAN | +10:47 |
| 24 | SKIVILD Robin Juel | DENMARK | s.t. |
| 25 | HEALY Ben | IRELAND | s.t. |
| 26 | ASKEY Lewis | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 27 | HEßMANN Michel | GERMANY | +10:55 |
| 28 | GAJDULA Marek | SLOVAKIA | +11:07 |
| 29 | PRONSKIY Daniil | KAZAKHSTAN | +11:19 |
| 30 | RANGEL Vinicius | BRAZIL | s.t. |
| 31 | HEIDUK Kim | GERMANY | +12:14 |
| 32 | HOLTER Ådne | NORWAY | +12:22 |
| 33 | SHCHYPAK Oleksandr | UKRAINE | s.t. |
| 34 | VAN UDEN Casper | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 35 | GONOV Lev | RUSSIA | +13:21 |
| 36 | BARRENETXEA Jon | SPAIN | +13:37 |
| 37 | WATSON Samuel | GREAT BRITAIN | +15:02 |
| 38 | ENGELHARDT Felix | GERMANY | s.t. |
| 39 | PAGE Hugo | FRANCE | +15:18 |
| 40 | Habimana Jean Eric | RWANDA | +15:25 |
| 41 | RETAILLEAU Valentin | FRANCE | +15:31 |
| 42 | ŘEPA Vojtech | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 43 | VOLLMER Andrew | USA | s.t. |
| 44 | LEIJNSE Enzo | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 45 | MIRZOJEV Artjom | ESTONIA | +15:47 |
| 46 | SCHELLENBERG Thomas | CANADA | +16:22 |
| 47 | BUGÁR Marek | SLOVAKIA | s.t. |
| 48 | SANCHEZ Pelayo | SPAIN | +17:18 |
| 49 | GEORGE Alfred | GREAT BRITAIN | +17:28 |
| 50 | PLAPP Lucas | AUSTRALIA | s.t. |
| 51 | ONODERA Kei | JAPAN | s.t. |
| 52 | NURLYKHASSYM Nurbergen | KAZAKHSTAN | +17:29 |
| 53 | CEPA Mesut | ALBANIA | +17:40 |
| 54 | TURUK Daniil | BELARUS | +17:55 |
| 55 | VAN DER BEKEN Aaron | BELGIUM | +17:58 |
| 56 | VANDENABEELE Henri | BELGIUM | s.t. |
| 57 | REITER Jakob | AUSTRIA | +18:15 |
| 58 | FLANNAGAN Breandán | IRELAND | +18:45 |
| 59 | VTIURIN Anton | RUSSIA | +18:54 |
| 60 | KIRSCH Gilles | LUXEMBOURG | s.t. |
| 61 | VAN BELLE Bas | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 62 | LANE Josh | NEW ZEALAND | s.t. |
| 63 | KRASTS Alekss | LATVIA | +18:57 |
| 64 | IMBODEN Simon | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 65 | MIKŠANÍK Vladimír | CZECH REPUBLIC | +19:00 |
| 66 | BILYI Maksim | UKRAINE | s.t. |
| 67 | EGGENBERG Ruben | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 68 | AGUIRRE Tomas | MEXICO | s.t. |
| 69 | BOUČEK Jakub | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 70 | SILVA Afonso | PORTUGAL | s.t. |
| 71 | KATERBERG Ben | CANADA | +20:34 |
| 72 | GILBERTSON Theo | NEW ZEALAND | s.t. |
| 73 | KELEMEN Petr | CZECH REPUBLIC | +21:01 |
| 74 | RODRIGUEZ Carlos | SPAIN | +22:34 |
| 75 | MAZUR Dzianis | BELARUS | +22:43 |
| 76 | VAN DER TUUK Axel | NETHERLANDS | +23:13 |
| 77 | KRUL Wessel | NETHERLANDS | +23:44 |
| 78 | LINDGREN Emil | SWEDEN | s.t. |
| 79 | TREIMUTH Henri | ESTONIA | s.t. |
| 80 | RYAN Archie | IRELAND | +24:27 |
| 81 | FINNESAND Fredrik | NORWAY | +24:29 |
| 82 | GORAK Dominik | POLAND | s.t. |
| 83 | BIENIEK Damian | POLAND | +25:10 |
| 84 | KLAHAN Noppachai | THAILAND | +27:56 |
Thursday, September 27: Junior Women's Road Race, 70.8 km
Laura Stigger is the new Junior Women's World Road Champion.
Complete results:
102 starters from 37 nations, 9 DNF, 93 classified finishers
70.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 36.484 km/hr
| 1 | STIGGER Laura | AUSTRIA | 1hr 56min 26sec |
| 2 | LE NET Marie | FRANCE | s.t. |
| 3 | BOILARD Simone | CANADA | s.t. |
| 4 | MALCOTTI Barbara | ITALY | s.t. |
| 5 | WIEL Jade | FRANCE | @ 14sec |
| 6 | GUAZZINI Vittoria | ITALY | s.t. |
| 7 | ALESSIO Camilla | ITALY | 29 |
| 8 | GAREEVA Aigul | RUSSIA | 56 |
| 9 | SAABYE Mie | DENMARK | @ 1min 52sec |
| 10 | GALAND Maina | FRANCE | s.t. |
| 11 | GEORGI Pfeiffer | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 12 | BOTERO Erika | COLOMBIA | s.t. |
| 13 | GALIMULLINA Iuliia | RUSSIA | s.t. |
| 14 | KULYNYCH Olha | UKRAINE | s.t. |
| 15 | BAIDAK Anna | RUSSIA | s.t. |
| 16 | JANDOVÁ Veronika | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 17 | JASKULSKA Marta | POLAND | +1:57 |
| 18 | JONKERS Eva | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 19 | LUDWIG Hannah | GERMANY | s.t. |
| 20 | AMMERLAAN Rozemarijn | NETHERLANDS | +2:02 |
| 21 | CURINIER Léa | FRANCE | +4:03 |
| 22 | TEKESTE Desiet | ERITREA | s.t. |
| 23 | KAWAGUCHI Urara | JAPAN | +4:07 |
| 24 | RYTSEVA Alena | RUSSIA | +4:14 |
| 25 | CLOUSE Katie | USA | +4:47 |
| 26 | GALLAGHER Maeve | IRELAND | +4:56 |
| 27 | HÁJKOVÁ Markéta | CZECH REPUBLIC | s.t. |
| 28 | SOTO Catalina | CHILE | s.t. |
| 29 | SOH Jasmine | USA | s.t. |
| 30 | BACKSTEDT Elynor | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 31 | YOUNGWERTH Abigail | USA | s.t. |
| 32 | KOLESAVA Anastasiya | BELARUS | s.t. |
| 33 | VAN SCHOOR Kelsey | SOUTH AFRICA | s.t. |
| 34 | VITILLO Matilde | ITALY | s.t. |
| 35 | ABRAMENKO Alina | BELARUS | s.t. |
| 36 | FISHER-BLACK Niamh | NEW ZEALAND | s.t. |
| 37 | EUSTACHE Emeline | FRANCE | s.t. |
| 38 | VALLIERES Magdeleine | CANADA | s.t. |
| 39 | TRIAS Mireia | SPAIN | s.t. |
| 40 | LARTITEGI Amaia | SPAIN | s.t. |
| 41 | SVARINSKA Lina | LATVIA | s.t. |
| 42 | UVAROVA Marina | RUSSIA | +4:59 |
| 43 | BOSSUYT Shari | BELGIUM | +5:47 |
| 44 | GJØS Martine | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 45 | LUTRO Amalie | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 46 | JANČIČ Nika | SLOVENIA | s.t. |
| 47 | SWINKELS Sylvie | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 48 | RAUWERDA Kaitlyn | CANADA | s.t. |
| 49 | GEDRAITYTĖ Akvile | LITHUANIA | s.t. |
| 50 | MATHISEN Silje | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 51 | ZÜGER Tina | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 52 | HEITZMANN Dorothea | GERMANY | s.t. |
| 53 | GERRITSE Femke | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 54 | GILLESPIE lara | IRELAND | s.t. |
| 55 | LOUW Anya | AUSTRALIA | s.t. |
| 56 | LEITANE Daniela | LATVIA | +6:04 |
| 57 | BAUERNFEIND Ricarda | GERMANY | +6:28 |
| 58 | GIGANTE Sarah | AUSTRALIA | s.t. |
| 59 | MACHÁLKOVÁ Petra | SLOVAKIA | s.t. |
| 60 | YASCHENKO Tetyana | UKRAINE | +7:30 |
| 61 | SMULDERS Silke | NETHERLANDS | s.t. |
| 62 | RÜEGG Noemi | SWITZERLAND | s.t. |
| 63 | ANDERSSON Caroline | SWEDEN | +7:32 |
| 64 | SÁSKOVÁ Tereza | CZECH REPUBLIC | +7:34 |
| 65 | BORGSTRÖM Julia | SWEDEN | s.t. |
| 66 | PACHSHENKO Svetlana | KAZAKHSTAN | +7:50 |
| 67 | GILABERT Ariana | SPAIN | +8:11 |
| 68 | STEHLI Lara | SWITZERLAND | +8:42 |
| 69 | HECHLER Katharina | GERMANY | +8:45 |
| 70 | WLODARCZYK Dominika | POLAND | +9:51 |
| 71 | PAULECHOVÁ Radka | SLOVAKIA | s.t. |
| 72 | DE LA FUENTE Lorena | SPAIN | s.t. |
| 73 | GIN Elizabeth | CANADA | s.t. |
| 74 | TSEGAY Danait | ERITREA | s.t. |
| 75 | HRTÁNKOVÁ Júlia | SLOVAKIA | s.t. |
| 76 | LEHNERT Gabrielle | USA | s.t. |
| 77 | CHIU Vivien | HONG KONG | s.t. |
| 78 | KIELLAND Thale | NORWAY | s.t. |
| 79 | BOGDANOVA Tatyana | KAZAKHSTAN | s.t. |
| 80 | MOVRIN Vita | SLOVENIA | +11:52 |
| 81 | KERR Britney | NEW ZEALAND | s.t. |
| 82 | STREICHER Hannah | AUSTRIA | +11:54 |
| 83 | TACEY April | GREAT BRITAIN | +13:03 |
| 84 | SOLOVYEVA Anzhela | KAZAKHSTAN | +14:24 |
| 85 | JENSEN Mette Egtoft | DENMARK | +15:05 |
| 86 | SZYMCZAK Natalia | POLAND | +15:46 |
| 87 | NAKATOMI Shoko | JAPAN | s.t. |
| 88 | CHRISTENSEN Emma | DENMARK | s.t. |
| 89 | KOŽIĆ Karla | CROATIA | +17:50 |
| 90 | BERTON Nina | LUXEMBOURG | s.t. |
| 91 | PASTUSZEK Paulina | POLAND | +17:54 |
| 92 | MONKHOUSE Amy | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
| 93 | SHARPE Amelia | GREAT BRITAIN | s.t. |
Wednesday, September 26: Elite Men's individual time trial, 52.1 km
Rohan Dennis going faster than anyone else in the world. Sirotti photo
The race: Winner Rohan Dennis' BMC team sent me this report.
26 September, 2018, Innsbruck (AUT): The UCI Time Trial World Championship gold medal has been a long time coming for Rohan Dennis and today in Innsbruck, Austria, the Australian time trial champion pulled on the rainbow jersey and stood on the podium with the gold medal around his neck for the first time in his career.
With 15 career individual time trial victories to his name before today's race, Dennis had more than proved himself as one on the best time trialists in the World but had not been able to secure the rainbow stripes in previous years.
Coming into the race as a hot favorite, after winning both individual time trials at the Vuelta a España, Dennis more than lived up to expectations with an impressive performance which saw the 28-year-old win by a commanding 1:21 over the 52.5 kilometer course, the biggest winning margin in the event since 2009.
Dennis was the second-to-last rider to roll down the ramp, before reigning World Champion Tom Dumoulin, and settled into a steady rhythm to clock the fastest time at the first intermediate checkpoint, 8.84 in front of Dumoulin. Dennis powered along the course with perfect technique and gained significant time on the decisive climb in the lead up to the second intermediate time check which confirmed Dennis had increased his lead to a staggering 1:01 over Dumoulin.
With the rainbow jersey in his sights, Dennis remained in control and further increased his advantage in the final 17 kilometers before crossing the line to stop the clock at 1:03.45 and immediately broke into a smile with the realization that he had become the World Champion.
Dumoulin held on to claim the silver medal while Victor Campenaerts completed the podium. Dennis was joined by BMC Racing Team teammate Patrick Bevin in the top ten, with the New Zealander clocking the eighth-fastest time on the day.
Interview with Rohan Dennis
Congratulations, Rohan! How does it feel to be World Champion?
"It's a dream come true to be World Champion. I've been chasing this since I was a junior, I've never won it in any age group, so to win my first one in seniors is really special. It's an amazing feeling. There's a lot of people I have to thank and the first person is my wife. She's back home and I'm sure she is pretty happy at the moment. Now, I'm just going to enjoy the moment and enjoy the next year in the rainbow jersey and try again next year."
How did you stay in control knowing you were on the way to winning?
"I was being coached from the car by Brad McGee and he gave me confidence at the top of the climb once Dumoulin came through and I was one minute up, and he just kept me calm. I was considering a bit of a victory salute but I wanted to make sure as you are never sure until Tom crosses the line."
Did you expect to win with such a big advantage?
"I knew the power that we rode in the team time trial. We lost 19 seconds and I held higher power up the hill than I did in the team time trial. I knew that Tom rode the front of the team time trial and he was pushing pretty hard so I had a fairly god idea of what power I needed to hold. I think I was 35 seconds in front at the bottom and when I got to the top I was fairly confident that I had at least done the same time as him."
Complete results:
52.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 49.585 km/hr
| 1 | DENNIS Rohan | Australia | 1hr 3min 2.57sec |
| 2 | DUMOULIN Tom | Netherlands | @ 1min 21.09sec |
| 3 | CAMPENAERTS Victor | Belgium | 1:21.62 |
| 4 | KWIATKOWSKI Michał | Poland | 2:04.58 |
| 5 | OLIVEIRA Nelson | Portugal | 2:14.34 |
| 6 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan | Spain | 2:17.53 |
| 7 | MARTIN Tony | Germany | 2:25.23 |
| 8 | BEVIN Patrick | New Zealand | 2:34.78 |
| 9 | KIRYIENKA Vasil | Belarus | 3:07.54 |
| 10 | MADSEN Martin | Denmark | 3:23.39 |
| 11 | SCHACHMANN Maximilian | Germany | 3:39.95 |
| 12 | KÜNG Stefan | Switzerland | 3:44.23 |
| 13 | LUTSENKO Alexey | Kazakhstan | 4:07.98 |
| 14 | BÁRTA Jan | Czech Republic | 4:08.15 |
| 15 | ROSSKOPF Joey | USA | 4:20.09 |
| 16 | KELDERMAN Wilco | Netherlands | 4:21.09 |
| 17 | BODNAR Maciej | Poland | 4:22.47 |
| 18 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Denmark | 4:28.86 |
| 19 | VAN EMDEN Jos | Netherlands | 4:33.61 |
| 20 | THOMAS Benjamin | France | 4:44.96 |
| 21 | KANGERT Tanel | Estonia | 4:45.14 |
| 22 | SOLER Marc | Spain | 4:47.78 |
| 23 | JUNGELS Bob | Luxembourg | 4:47.94 |
| 24 | ČERNÝ Josef | Czech Republic | 4:49.29 |
| 25 | BOND Hamish | New Zealand | 4:50.45 |
| 26 | BRÄNDLE Matthias | Austria | 4:51.20 |
| 27 | VAN GARDEREN Tejay | USA | 4:53.58 |
| 28 | DE MARCHI Alessandro | Italy | 5:05.54 |
| 29 | DOWSETT Alex | Great Britain | 5:24.70 |
| 30 | FELLINE Fabio | Italy | 5:25.71 |
| 31 | TRATNIK Jan | Slovenia | 5:38.14 |
| 32 | HOULE Hugo | Canada | 5:39.52 |
| 33 | SIVAKOV Pavel | Russia | 5:49.99 |
| 34 | PAILLOT Yoann | France | 5:57.58 |
| 35 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao | Great Britain | 6:03.37 |
| 36 | PREIDLER Georg | Austria | 6:12.60 |
| 37 | CONTRERAS Rodrigo | Colombia | 6:20.28 |
| 38 | GRIVKO Andrey | Ukraine | 6:22.11 |
| 39 | GRMAY Tsgabu | Ethiopia | 6:23.36 |
| 40 | SKJERPING Kristoffer | Norway | 6:24.48 |
| 41 | GONÇALVES Domingos | Portugal | 6:29.11 |
| 42 | VOROBYEV Anton | Russia | 6:34.19 |
| 43 | KONOVALOVAS Ignatas | Lithuania | 6:47.52 |
| 44 | SKUJIŅŠ Toms | Latvia | 6:47.80 |
| 45 | SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo | Argentina | 6:49.23 |
| 46 | ROCHE Nicolas | Ireland | 7:03.69 |
| 47 | DILLIER Silvan | Switzerland | 7:03.85 |
| 48 | LUDVIGSSON Tobias | Sweden | 7:05.22 |
| 49 | MULLEN Ryan | Ireland | 7:17.92 |
| 50 | DE PLUS Laurens | Belgium | 8:14.20 |
| 51 | BAGDONAS Gediminas | Lithuania | 8:16.52 |
| 52 | ČANECKÝ Marek | Slovakia | 10min 50.19sec |
| 53 | WAIS Ahmad | Syria | 15:30.45 |
| 54 | ARIF Dealton | Indonesia | 17:33.55 |
| 55 | CHIU Ho San | Hongkong | 18:05.50 |
| 56 | CHRISTOPHER Darel | Virgin Islands | 28:41:30 |
Tuesday, September 25: Elite Women's individual time trial, 27.7 km
Wow! The Dutch women took all the medals. The podium, from left: Anna van der Breggen (2nd), Annemiek van Vleuten (1st) & Ellen van Dijk (3rd). Sirotti photo
The race: Here's the report from winner Annemiek van Vleuten's Mitchelton-Scott team:
35-year-old Annemiek van Vleuten has ridden to back-to-back time trial victories at the UCI World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria today.
Van Vleuten, who rolled down the ramp last as the reigning champion, went out hard to lead by 19seconds at the intermediate time check before extending her margin to take the gold medal by 30seconds ahead of second-place Anna van der Breggen (NED).
The result, which will see the Mitchelton-SCOTT rider don the rainbow jersey again in 2019, adds to an already impressive season to-date, including three stages and overall victory at both the Giro Rosa and Boels Rental Ladies Tour and a win at La Course by Le Tour de France. The Dutch rider also currently leads the women’s UCI WorldTour with one final race to come.
Annemiek van Vleuten:
“There’s not too many times someone has won twice the time trial world championships. It added a bit of pressure but I also felt the pressure last year so it was no different. If you’re here starting, you just want to win the jersey and I know how nice it is to ride and train in a beautiful jersey.”
“The hard thing about this time trial was that it was uphill but in the descent you didn’t have recovery so you also needed to push. So, actually, your legs are screaming to stop pedalling in the descents but you have to keep on going otherwise you lose time. It made it almost a flat time trial with hills.
“I know I took some time in the first part but then I also felt I went out pretty fast. In the national championships, I went out too slow so I felt like I had to start fast and then die until the end, which is not nice to do. I was also a little in trouble in the second part, but that’s how you know you had a good time trial.
“The next goal is Saturday. First, I am going to enjoy this one, but not for too long because Saturday is a beautiful course and I really look forward to racing on it with our team.”
Complete results:
Winner's average speed: 48.282 km/hr
| 1 | VAN VLEUTEN Annemiek | Netherlands | 34min 25.36sec |
| 2 | VAN DER BREGGEN Anna | Netherlands | @ 28.99sec |
| 3 | VAN DIJK Ellen | Netherlands | @ 1min 25.19sec |
| 4 | KIRCHMANN Leah | Canada | 1:26.61 |
| 5 | THOMAS Leah | USA | 1:32.39 |
| 6 | BRAND Lucinda | Netherlands | 1:42.59 |
| 7 | NEBEN Amber | USA | 1:47.51 |
| 8 | CANUEL Karol-Ann | Canada | 2:15.86 |
| 9 | LONGO BORGHINI Elisa | Italy | 2:17.12 |
| 10 | WILES Tayler | USA | 2:31.16 |
| 11 | WILLIAMS Georgia | New Zealand | 2:33.28 |
| 12 | MATHIESEN Pernille | Denmark | 2:34.94 |
| 13 | LABOUS Juliette | France | 2:39.83 |
| 14 | BRENNAUER Lisa | Germany | 2:48.94 |
| 15 | WORRACK Trixi | Germany | 3:02.12 |
| 16 | FAHLIN Emilia | Sweden | 3:09.39 |
| 17 | REUSSER Marlen | Switzerland | 3:11.29 |
| 18 | LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup | Denmark | 3:16.65 |
| 19 | CORDON-RAGOT Audrey | France | 3:17.49 |
| 20 | AMIALIUSIK Alena | Belarus | 3:19.94 |
| 21 | PIRRONE Elena | Italy | 3:31.72 |
| 22 | BARNES Alice | Great Britain | 3:41.71 |
| 23 | SIMMONDS Hayley | Great Britain | 3:47.41 |
| 24 | HEINE Vita | Norway | 3:48.03 |
| 25 | RITTER Martina | Austria | 3:51.20 |
| 26 | LEPISTÖ Lotta | Finland | 3:55.56 |
| 27 | SHAPIRA Omer | Israel | 3:59.14 |
| 28 | DUYCK Ann-sophie | Belgium | 3:59.79 |
| 29 | YONAMINE Eri | Japan | 4:00.18 |
| 30 | GARCIA Margarita Victoria | Spain | 4:09.02 |
| 31 | SHEKEL Olga | Ukraine | 4:09.03 |
| 32 | IAKOVENKO Anastasia | Russia | 4:10.34 |
| 33 | MURPHY Kelly | Ireland | 4:19.00 |
| 34 | YAPURA Fernanda | Argentina | 4:21.38 |
| 35 | CHRISTOFOROU Antri | Cyprus | 4:30.72 |
| 36 | KONONENKO Valeriya | Ukraine | 4:34.40 |
| 37 | MAYER Barbara | Austria | 4:40.87 |
| 38 | KORVASOVA Tereza | Czech Republic | 5:00.89 |
| 39 | RADOTIC Mia | Croatia | 5:04.04 |
| 40 | GAFINOVITZ Rotem | Israel | 5:09.32 |
| 41 | BURNS Eileen | Ireland | 5:10.81 |
| 42 | NOVOLODSKAIA Mariia | Russia | 5:25.92 |
| 43 | SAIFUTDINOVA Natalya | Kazakhstan | 5:46.98 |
| 44 | FASOI Varvara | Greece | 6:08.54 |
| 45 | POTAPOVA Faina | Kazakhstan | 6:29.68 |
| 46 | GEBRU Eyeru Tesfoam | Ethiopia | 6:34.21 |
| 47 | ESPÍNOLA Agua Marina | Paraguay | 6:46.43 |
| 48 | JASEKOVÁ Tatiana | Slovakia | 6:48.99 |
| 49 | CAMPBELL Teniel | Trinidad & Tobago | 7:18.74 |
| 50 | DEBESAY Mossana | Eritrea | 7:32.16 |
| 51 | PU Yixian | China | 7:37.02 |
Tuesday, September 25: Junior Men's individual time trial, 27.7 km
Junior men's time trial podium, from left: Luca Plapp (2nd), Remco Evenepoel (1st) & Andrea Piccolo (3rd). Sirotti photo
Winner's average speed: 49.979 km/hr
Complete results:
| 1 | EVENEPOEL Remco | BELGIUM | 33min 15.24sec |
| 2 | PLAPP Lucas | AUSTRALIA | @ 1min 23.66sec |
| 3 | PICCOLO Andrea | ITALY | 1:37.62 |
| 4 | HEßMANN Michel | GERMANY | 1:47.69 |
| 5 | WÆRENSKJOLD Søren | NORWAY | 1:50.30 |
| 6 | MICHIELSEN Manuel | NETHERLANDS | 2:10.89 |
| 7 | VAN WILDER Ilan | BELGIUM | 2:21.32 |
| 8 | LAVERICK Joseph | GREAT BRITAIN | 2:21.84 |
| 9 | HINDSGAUL Jacob | DENMARK | 2:26.52 |
| 10 | GARRISON Michael | USA | 2:32.95 |
| 11 | BALMER Alexandre | SWITZERLAND | 2:38.42 |
| 12 | GEßNER Jakob | GERMANY | 2:45.64 |
| 13 | HEALY Ben | IRELAND | 2:49.04 |
| 14 | GONOV Lev | RUSSIA | 2:53.11 |
| 15 | HAILU Biniam | ERITREA | 2:53.14 |
| 16 | VAUQUELIN Kévin | FRANCE | 3:03.62 |
| 17 | PRONSKIY Daniil | KAZAKHSTAN | 3:11.44 |
| 18 | LEIJNSE Enzo | NETHERLANDS | 3:13.22 |
| 19 | SHEEHAN Riley | USA | 3:20.68 |
| 20 | BRUSSENSKIY Gleb | KAZAKHSTAN | 3:23.61 |
| 21 | LEVY William Blume | DENMARK | 3:23.77 |
| 22 | RODRIGUEZ Carlos | SPAIN | 3:25.91 |
| 23 | FEDOROV Yevgeniy | KAZAKHSTAN | 3:26.42 |
| 24 | GÖTZINGER Valentin | AUSTRIA | 3:30.24 |
| 25 | MARTIN Conor | CANADA | 3:35.94 |
| 26 | KARPENKO Gleb | ESTONIA | 3:37.69 |
| 27 | MIRZOJEV Artjom | ESTONIA | 3:38.08 |
| 28 | KOSHOVYI Ruslan | UKRAINE | 3:41.15 |
| 29 | MOTA Guilherme | PORTUGAL | 3:41.69 |
| 30 | KABAS Maximilian | AUSTRIA | 3:41.91 |
| 31 | KLUCKERS Arthur | LUXEMBOURG | 3:42.46 |
| 32 | MANFREDI Samuele | ITALY | 3:46.89 |
| 33 | BILYI Maksim | UKRAINE | 3:54.03 |
| 34 | KELEMEN Petr | CZECH REPUBLIC | 3:55.50 |
| 35 | MAZUR Dzianis | BELARUS | 3:57.17 |
| 36 | DEVANNE Antoine | FRANCE | 3:59.48 |
| 37 | TURUK Daniil | BELARUS | 4:09.51 |
| 38 | TULETT Ben | GREAT BRITAIN | 4:11.53 |
| 39 | FINNESAND Fredrik | NORWAY | 4:17.73 |
| 40 | MURN Boštjan | SLOVENIA | 4:20.49 |
| 41 | KUDERCZAK Dawid | POLAND | 4:23.35 |
| 42 | BIELER Dominik | SWITZERLAND | 4:24.03 |
| 43 | PAPIERSKI Damian | POLAND | 4:24.89 |
| 44 | HUYS Branko | BELGIUM | 4:29.56 |
| 45 | KIRSCH Gilles | LUXEMBOURG | 4:33.23 |
| 46 | DOHERTY Aaron | IRELAND | 4:38.83 |
| 47 | GUSEV Iakov | RUSSIA | 4:52.94 |
| 48 | SILVA Afonso | PORTUGAL | 4:54.98 |
| 49 | Habimana Jean Eric | RWANDA | 5:09.13 |
| 50 | ŠIDLAUSKAS Erikas | LITHUANIA | 5:11.20 |
| 51 | COBO CAYON Ivan | SPAIN | 5:11.52 |
| 52 | KRASTS Alekss | LATVIA | 5:12.28 |
| 53 | ASMEROM Yoel | ERITREA | 5:27.19 |
| 54 | ESPINOZA Julian | COSTA RICA | 5:30.49 |
| 55 | VASILOIU Valentin | ROMANIA | 5:42.71 |
| 56 | FOLTÁN Adam | SLOVAKIA | 5:46.74 |
| 57 | KELMELIS Aristidas | LITHUANIA | 6:04.98 |
| 58 | HINO Taisei | JAPAN | 6:05.17 |
| 59 | UHIRIWE Renus | RWANDA | 6:08.39 |
| 60 | JURISEVIC Carlo | CROATIA | 6:21.74 |
| 61 | UMAKOSHI Hiroyuki | JAPAN | 6:29.84 |
| 62 | SYLHASI Zani | KOSOVO | 6:56.00 |
| 63 | KUBIŠ Lukáš | SLOVAKIA | 6:59.18 |
| 64 | MUSTAFAYEV Qadir | AZERBAIJAN | 7:04.82 |
| 65 | MURILLO Luis | COSTA RICA | 7:09.48 |
| 66 | DÍAZ Jeffrey | PUERTO RICO | 7:52.38 |
| 67 | TENEB Marcel | CHILE | 8:03.41 |
| 68 | RAYES Mohamed | SYRIA | 9:08.46 |
| 69 | NUHA Blerton | KOSOVO | 9:21.15 |
| 70 | JOHN Briton | GUYANA | 9:48.05 |
Monday, September 24: Men Under 23 individual time trial, 27.7 km
Mikkel Bjerg going deep to retain his U-23 time trial world title
Winner's average speed: 51.111 km/hr
| 1 | BJERG Mikkel | Denmark | 32min 31.05sec |
| 2 | VAN MOER Brent | Belgium | @ 33.47sec |
| 3 | NORSGAARD Mathias | Denmark | 0:38.30 |
| 4 | AFFINI Edoardo | Italy | 0:44.48 |
| 5 | HAYTER Ethan | Great Britain | 0:46.65 |
| 6 | FOSS Tobias | Norway | 0:50.60 |
| 7 | MCNULTY Brandon | USA | 0:52.79 |
| 8 | DE BOD Stefan | South Africa | 0:59.43 |
| 9 | SOBRERO Matteo | Italy | @ 1min 1.39sec |
| 10 | SCOTSON Callum | Australia | 1:01.52 |
| 11 | BISSEGGER Stefan | Switzerland | 1:01.90 |
| 12 | GAMPER Patrick | Austria | 1:03.53 |
| 13 | LEKNESSUND Andreas | Norway | 1:03.67 |
| 14 | KÄMNA Lennard | Germany | 1:04.66 |
| 15 | KANTER Max | Germany | 1:05.04 |
| 16 | EENKHOORN Pascal | Netherlands | 1:06.31 |
| 17 | PADUN Mark | Ukraine | 1:07.49 |
| 18 | BRUNEL Alexys | France | 1:08.10 |
| 19 | OTRUBA Jakub | Czech Republic | 1:11.66 |
| 20 | LEYSEN Senne | Belgium | 1:18.57 |
| 21 | ZUKOWSKY Nicolas | Canada | 1:20.33 |
| 22 | MACIEJUK Filip | Poland | 1:22.37 |
| 23 | HECHT Gage | United States | 1:22.72 |
| 24 | VAN DEN BERG Julius | Netherlands | 1:24.28 |
| 25 | O'LOUGHLIN Michael | Ireland | 1:27.63 |
| 26 | WIRTGEN Tom | Luxembourg | 1:30.90 |
| 27 | TANFIELD Charlie | Great Britain | 1:31.70 |
| 28 | OLIVEIRA Ivo | Portugal | 1:34.52 |
| 29 | CASTRILLO Jaime | Spain | 1:38.06 |
| 30 | ALMEIDA João | Portugal | 1:39.77 |
| 31 | PRICE-PEJTERSEN Johan | Denmark | 1:40.74 |
| 32 | CHERKASOV Nikolay | Russian Federation | 1:42.91 |
| 33 | PEÁK Barnabás | Hungary | 1:44.79 |
| 34 | WILDAUER Markus | Austria | 1:44.93 |
| 35 | GUERNALEC Thibault | France | 1:48.93 |
| 36 | KONYCHEV Alexander | Italy | 1:53.41 |
| 37 | MAIN Kent | South Africa | 2:00.02 |
| 38 | MCDUNPHY Conn | Ireland | 2:06.44 |
| 39 | HIRSCHI Marc | Switzerland | 2:07.20 |
| 40 | ROBERGE Adam | Canada | 2:08.62 |
| 41 | PRIMOZIC Jaka | Slovenia | 2:33.39 |
| 42 | VAHTRA Norman | Estonia | 2:37.30 |
| 43 | FERREYRA Diego | Chile | 2:50.30 |
| 44 | TU Sergio | Taiwan | 2:53.77 |
| 45 | STOJNIC Veljko | Serbia | 2:55.89 |
| 46 | MILTIADIS Andreas | Cyprus | 2:57.45 |
| 47 | MATSUDA Shoi | Japan | 2:58.18 |
| 48 | CHZHAN Igor | Kazakhstan | 3:00.36 |
| 49 | YAMAMOTO Masaki | Japan | 3:00.88 |
| 50 | LEYDER Pit | Luxembourg | 3:08.25 |
| 51 | RIKUNOV Petr | Russia | 3:12.72 |
| 52 | BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-bayar | Mongolia | 3:15.46 |
| 53 | ŠTOČEK Matúš | Slovakia | 3:20.59 |
| 54 | EBRAHIM Redwan | Ethiopia | 3:24.94 |
| 55 | MULUBRHAN Henok | Eritrea | 3:36.89 |
| 56 | PARRA José Félix | Spain | 3:37.34 |
| 57 | MALIEIEV Tymur | Ukraine | 3:39.30 |
| 58 | PETROVSKI Andrej | Macedonia | 3:41.57 |
| 59 | BABIC Adrián | Slovakia | s.t. |
| 60 | SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts | Mongolia | 3:49.61 |
| 61 | HABTOM Awet | Eritrea | 3:52.31 |
| 62 | MUGISHA Samuel | Rwanda | 3:52.62 |
| 63 | ILIC Ognjen | Serbia | 4:03.73 |
| 64 | PENKO Izidor | Slovenia | 4:13.13 |
| 65 | ARERUYA Joseph | Rwanda | 4:23.85 |
| 66 | DAUMONT Paul | Burkina Faso | 4:47.03 |
| 67 | BEZA Million | Ethiopia | 5:31.63 |
| 68 | MIKAYILZADE Musa | Azerbaijan | 6:46.48 |
| 69 | HARAKAT Othman | Morocco | 7:13.41 |
| 70 | TYLER Cole | Trinidad & Tobago | 13:28.47 |
Monday, September 24: Junior Women's individual time trial, 19.8 km
Rozemarijn Ammerlaan on her gold-medal winning ride. Sirotti photo
Complete results:
Winner's average speed: 43.920 km/hr
| 1 | AMMERLAAN Rozemarijn | NETHERLANDS | 27min 2.95sec |
| 2 | ALESSIO Camilla | ITALY | @ 6.80sec |
| 3 | BACKSTEDT Elynor | GREAT BRITAIN | 17.94 |
| 4 | GEORGI Pfeiffer | GREAT BRITAIN | 21.89 |
| 5 | BOILARD Simone | CANADA | 24.11 |
| 6 | GUAZZINI Vittoria | ITALY | 24.64 |
| 7 | GAREEVA Aigul | RUSSIAN FEDERATION | 24.66 |
| 8 | LE NET Marie | FRANCE | 25.69 |
| 9 | JASKULSKA Marta | POLAND | 28.24 |
| 10 | LUDWIG Hannah | GERMANY | 28.93 |
| 11 | KNAVEN Britt | NETHERLANDS | 36.97 |
| 12 | KULYNYCH Olha | UKRAINE | 49.35 |
| 13 | SAABYE Mie | DENMARK | 52.40 |
| 14 | SOTO CAMPOS Catalina | CHILE | 1min 0.41sec |
| 15 | GIGANTE Sarah | AUSTRALIA | 1:04.50 |
| 16 | LOUW Anya | AUSTRALIA | 1:07.88 |
| 17 | WIEL Jade | FRANCE | 1:09.65 |
| 18 | BOSSUYT Shari | BELGIUM | 1:10.42 |
| 19 | GILLESPIE lara | IRELAND | 1:12.46 |
| 20 | YASCHENKO Tetyana | UKRAINE | 1:21.22 |
| 21 | BARIANI Giorgia | ITALY | 1:21.78 |
| 22 | HEITZMANN Dorothea | GERMANY | 1:24.74 |
| 23 | GJØS Martine | NORWAY | 1:28.28 |
| 24 | GEDRAITYTĖ Akvile | LITHUANIA | 1:30.77 |
| 25 | YOUNGWERTH Abigail | USA | 1:31.20 |
| 26 | ABRAMENKO Alina | BELARUS | 1:31.91 |
| 27 | PACHSHENKO Svetlana | KAZAKHSTAN | 1:35.39 |
| 28 | TEKESTE Desiet | ERITREA | 1:36.46 |
| 29 | HÁJKOVÁ Markéta | CZECH REPUBLIC | 1:46.92 |
| 30 | JENSEN Mette Egtoft | DENMARK | 1:51.14 |
| 31 | RÜEGG Noemi | SWITZERLAND | 1:57.71 |
| 32 | MOVRIN Vita | SLOVENIA | 2:09.18 |
| 33 | KOLESAVA Anastasiya | BELARUS | 2:10.37 |
| 34 | SOLOVYEVA Anzhela | KAZAKHSTAN | 2:14.46 |
| 35 | MATHISEN Silje | NORWAY | 2:21.96 |
| 36 | SVARINSKA Lina | LATVIA | 2:25.20 |
| 37 | JANČIČ Nika | SLOVENIA | 2:31.24 |
| 38 | KURNOSSOVA Marina | KAZAKHSTAN | 2:44.16 |
| 39 | DE LA FUENTE ALCALDE Lorena | SPAIN | 2:45.01 |
| 40 | JANDOVÁ Veronika | CZECH REPUBLIC | 2:47.30 |
| 41 | SOH Jasmine | USA | 2:51.40 |
| 42 | MACHÁLKOVÁ Petra | SLOVAKIA | 2:51.57 |
| 43 | GILABERT VILAPLANA Ariana | SPAIN | 2:57.64 |
| 44 | PAULECHOVÁ Radka | SLOVAKIA | 3:04.54 |
| 45 | LEITANE Daniela | LATVIA | 3:06.68 |
| 46 | VALLIERES MILL Magdeleine | CANADA | 3:10.09 |
Sunday, September 13: Men's Team Time Trial / Contre-la montre par équipes hommes, 62.4 km
Team Quick-Step, World Champions
The race: Here's the report from Team Quick-Step:
Kasper Asgreen, Laurens De Plus, Bob Jungels, Yves Lampaert, Maximilian Schachmann and Niki Terpstra put in a tremendous ride on Sunday afternoon in the last ever World Team Time Trial Championships for trade squads, stopping the clock in 1:07:26 after averaging 55.6km/h over the 62.8 grueling kilometers of the course and taking the gold medals in Austria, as well as adding the rainbow logo to their jerseys.
Victorious in 2012 (Valkenburg), 2013 (Florence) and 2016 (Doha), Quick-Step Floors were again one of the top contenders and rode with huge confidence as they left the start house in Ötzal, posting the third-fastest time at the first intermediate and using the 4.6km-climb averaging 5.6% which featured inside the last 20 kilometers to their advantage, pulling back time from the teams which lied ahead on the leaderboard and blasting through the last checkpoint just hundreds of a second behind first place.
On the fast descent to Innsbruck, the team hit crazy speeds of over 100 kilometers on their trusted Specialized Shiv bikes and by the time they arrived at the finish, improved the fastest time by a mile, going into the hot seat. With three more squads left on the course, the waiting was long and tense, but as soon as the last outfit crossed the line, the Quick-Step Floors riders and staff erupted in joy knowing the victory was theirs and the result they got propelled the team in the history books, as the only one to have won the crown on four occasions.
Sports director Tom Steels, the man who guided the squad to all these memorable triumphs which underlined Quick-Step Floors' remarkable prowess against the clock, talked of how he and team trainer Koen Pelgrim prepared the race, took us through this unforgettable ride – which saw our team put twenty seconds into the other teams to finish on the podium – Sunweb and BMC – and explained what this win meant for him on a personal level.
"After the course was announced, we came at the beginning of the year to have a look and get more information. Then we made a preliminary selection and began testing the riders in the wind tunnel. Last month, we simulated the flat part of the route, knowing it was important to go as fast as possible without losing too much energy, and this week we did a recon several times."
"The race was hard and we knew there was some pressure on us, but the boys can be proud of themselves, because when it mattered, they gave everything and showed the amazing spirit of the team. We rode hard on the flat, later on the first 1500 meters of the climb we saved some energy while keeping a steady pace, before speeding it up and then flying on the descent. We weren't the big favourites today, but this is what makes this victory so special", concluded Tom Steels.
Sunday's time trial was the last for trade teams at the World Championships, and for Niki Terpstra it couldn't have been a more fitting end, as the 34-year-old Dutchman claimed his fourth gold medal, a new record and an achievement on which he looked with pride and a lot of emotion.
"When we heard that we were just third at the first split, I thought how was that possible, because I couldn't imagine someone could have ridden faster, but we didn't panic, because we knew there was still a long way to the finish and plenty of road left to gain time. We smashed it on the descent and I think that made the difference at the end of the day. A huge thanks goes to Tom and Koen, who made sure we had a great preparation for this event, which led to these gold medals. It feels incredible to win the last edition, but it's a pity we won't have this race anymore, because it's really special."
Having enjoyed one of the most memorable days in the history of Quick-Step Floors, CEO Patrick Lefevere was over the moon in Innsbruck, where he witnessed the team's 69th victory of the season in one of the most important and prestigious races of the calendar: "I can't tell you how happy I am. The tension built up as we waited for the team to complete their effort and then to see if we'll remain in the hot seat was really nervous, but now all this tension has evaporated and all we feel is tremendous joy and happiness. Knowing some of the riders we had today are leaving the team at the end of the season made things even more emotional and seeing how all of our guys together with this superb staff pulled it off brings a lot of satisfaction and makes up for a really beautiful moment."
Complete results:
Winner's speed: 55.522 km/hr
| 1 | QUICK - STEP FLOORS (BEL) | 1hr 7min 25.94sec |
| SCHACHMANN Maximilian | GER | |
| de PLUS Laurens | BEL | |
| LAMPAERT Yves | BEL | |
| JUNGELS Bob | LUX | |
| ASGREEN Kasper | DEN | |
| TERPSTRA Niki | NED | |
| 2 | TEAM SUNWEB (GER) | @ 18.46sec |
| KELDERMAN Wilco | NED | |
| HAGA Chad | USA | |
| MATTHEWS Michael | AUS | |
| DUMOULIN Tom | NED | |
| OOMEN Sam | NED | |
| KRAGH ANDERSEN Soren | DEN | |
| 3 | BMC RACING TEAM (USA) | @ 19.55sec |
| van AVERMAET Greg | BEL | |
| DENNIS Rohan | AUS | |
| BEVIN Patrick | NZL | |
| CARUSO Damiano | ITA | |
| van GARDEREN Tejay | USA | |
| KUNG Stefan | SUI | |
| 4 | TEAM SKY (GBR) | @ 44.96sec |
| DOULL Owain | GBR | |
| KIRYIENKA Vasil | BLR | |
| KWIATKOWSKI Michal | POL | |
| CASTROVIEJO Jonathan | ESP | |
| MOSCON Gianni | ITA | |
| STANNARD Ian | GBR | |
| 5 | MITCHELTON - SCOTT (AUS) | @ 50.68sec |
| MEYER Cameron | AUS | |
| BAUER Jack | NZL | |
| HEPBURN Michael | AUS | |
| DURBRIDGE Luke | AUS | |
| IMPEY Daryl | RSA | |
| TRENTIN Matteo | ITA | |
| 6 | MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP) | @ 1min 31.70sec |
| ERVITI Imanol | ESP | |
| ANACONA Winner Andrew | COL | |
| AMADOR Andrey | CRC | |
| SUTTERLIN Jasha | GER | |
| SOLER Marc | ESP | |
| OLIVEIRA Nelson | POR | |
| 7 | TREK - SEGAFREDO (USA) | @ 2min 3.97sec |
| MULLEN Ryan | IRL | |
| BRANDLE Matthias | AUT | |
| FELLINE Fabio | ITA | |
| GOGL Michael | AUT | |
| SKUJINS Toms | LAT | |
| BERNARD Julien | FRA | |
| 8 | BORA - HANSGROHE (GER) | @ 2min 7.24sec |
| BODNAR Maciej | POL | |
| MUHLBERGER Gregor | AUT | |
| KONRAD Patrick | AUT | |
| POSTLBERGER Lukas | AUT | |
| GROSSSCHARTNER Felix | AUT | |
| OSS Daniel | ITA | |
| 9 | CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE (POL) | @ 2min 37.44sec |
| KUREK Adrian | POL | |
| SAJNOK Szymon | POL | |
| GRADEK Kamil | POL | |
| TACIAK Mateusz | POL | |
| OWSIAN Lukasz | POL | |
| TRATNIK Jan | SLO | |
| 10 | ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ) | @ 2min 53.79sec |
| HOULE Hugo | CAN | |
| KANGERT Tanel | EST | |
| GRIVKO Andrey | UKR | |
| VALGREN ANDERSEN Michael | DEN | |
| LUTSENKO Alexey | KAZ | |
| NIELSEN Magnus Cort | DEN | |
| 11 | TEAM KATUSHA ALPECIN (SUI) | @ 2min 55.34sec |
| SCHMIDT WURTZ Mads | DEN | |
| HOLLENSTEIN Reto | SUI | |
| HAAS Nathan | AUS | |
| MARTIN Tony | GER | |
| POLITT Nils | GER | |
| DOWSETT Alex | GBR | |
| 12 | ELKOV - AUTHOR (CZE) | @ 3min 17.44sec |
| KANKOVSKY Alois | CZE | |
| HACECKY Vojtech | CZE | |
| KUKRLE Michael | CZE | |
| OTRUBA Jakub | CZE | |
| BARTA Jan | CZE | |
| CERNY Josef | CZE | |
| 13 | TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO (NED) | @ 3min 28.05sec |
| ROOSEN Timo | NED | |
| van POPPEL Danny | NED | |
| LEEZER Thomas | NED | |
| van EMDEN Jos | NED | |
| BOUWMAN Koen | NED | |
| POWLESS Neilson | USA | |
| 14 | TEAM VORARLBERG SANTIC (AUT) | @ 4min 46.99sec |
| SCHELLING Patrick | SUI | |
| GEISMAYR Daniel | AUT | |
| FRIESECKE Gian | SUI | |
| STEIMLE Jannik | GER | |
| RUEGG Lukas | SUI | |
| ORRICO Davide | ITA | |
| 15 | AG2R LA MONDIALE (FRA) | @ 5min 18.54sec |
| GOUGEARD Alexis | FRA | |
| GENIEZ Alexandre | FRA | |
| BAGDONAS Gediminas | LTU | |
| BIDARD Francois | FRA | |
| DILLIER Silvan | SUI | |
| DENZ Nico | GER | |
| 16 | TEAM FELBERMAYR SIMPLON WELS (AUT) | @ 5min 39.47sec |
| FORTIN Filippo | ITA | |
| MANGERTSEDER Matthias | GER | |
| ZOIDL Riccardo | AUT | |
| KRIZEK Matthias | AUT | |
| RABITSCH Stephan | AUT | |
| LEHNER Daniel | AUT | |
| 17 | TIROL CYCLING TEAM (AUT) | @ 6min 24.97sec |
| GAMPER Mario | AUT | |
| SCHINNAGEL Johannes | GER | |
| PORZNER Manuel | GER | |
| BAYER Tobias | AUT | |
| GAMPER Florian | AUT | |
| ZIMMERMANN Georg | GER | |
| 18 | HRINKOW ADVARICS CYCLEANG (AUT) | @ 7min 2.77sec |
| GRAF Andreas | AUT | |
| HRINKOW Dominik | AUT | |
| HOFER Andreas | AUT | |
| BOSMAN Patrick | AUT | |
| RAPP Jonas | GER | |
| FREIBERGER Markus | AUT | |
| 19 | SANGEMINI - MG. K VIS - VEGA (ITA) | @ 7min 5.29sec |
| GAZZARA Michele | ITA | |
| SCARTEZZINI Michele | ITA | |
| GAFFURINI Nicola | ITA | |
| PUCCIONI Dario | ITA | |
| TOTO Paolo | ITA | |
| SALVIETTI Niccolo | ITA | |
| 20 | TEAM LOTTO - KERN HAUS (GER) | @ 7min 33.42sec |
| HUPPERTZ Joshua | GER | |
| RUTSCH Jonas | GER | |
| KESSLER Robert William | GER | |
| WESTMATTELMANN Daniel | GER | |
| HENN Luca | GER | |
| HUGGER Jan | GER | |
| 21 | DUKLA BANSKA BYSTRICA (SVK) | @ 8min 10.00sec |
| MAHDAR Martin | SVK | |
| OROS Samuel | SVK | |
| CULLY Jan Andrej | SVK | |
| TYBOR Patrik | SVK | |
| CANECKY Marek | SVK | |
| BELLAN Juraj | SVK | |
| 22 | WSA PUSHBIKERS (AUT) | @ 8min 39.45sec |
| HARRISON Joshua | AUS | |
| SALZMANN Jodok | AUT | |
| RITZINGER Felix | AUT | |
| TRETTWER Helmut | GER | |
| AUER Daniel | AUT | |
| GRASMANN Christian | GER |
Men's Team Time Trail photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Thirteenth-placed LottoNL-Jumbo
Bora-hansgrohe
Trek-Segafredo was seventh.
Fifth-placed Mitchelton-Scott
Sky just missed the podium, coming in fourth.
Third-place BMC
Second-place Team Sunweb
The winners, Team Quick-Step
The podium, from left: Team Sunweb (2nd), Quick Step (1st) & BMC (3rd).
Sunday, September 23: Women's Team Time Trial / Contre-la montre par équipes femmes, 54.1 km
World Champion Canyon-SRAM racing team
The race: Here's the report from Canyon-SRAM:
We rode a perfect race today to be crowned Team Time Trial World Champions in Innsbruck, Austria. Alena Amialiusik, Alice and Hannah Barnes, Elena Cecchini, Lisa Klein and Trixi Worrack crossed the line all together, with an average speed just under 53km/hour for the 54.9km course.
“I think no one was tipping that we could challenge for the win today,” said an elated Worrack after the finish. “But we knew, as we got closer and closer to today, with all of our preparations and training, we knew that we would be close. And today in the race, we had the perfect day.”
After storming through the first time check with the fastest time, Wiggle High5 faded in the last half of the race, while last year’s winner Boels Dolman were most threatening during the middle of the race. Still with six riders, our team maintained our composure to finish 22 seconds ahead of Boels Dolman at the finish, and 29 seconds ahead of Team Sunweb.
“It’s the best performance that I’ve seen for a long time. We have been busy preparing for this. I’m very satisfied. The riders rode simply great today. I’m also pleased we brought in Aerodynamicist Dan Bigham who I believe has also introduced a new way of thinking. We dedicate this title to all of our team’s partners, especially Canyon and SRAM. They have all been supporting us for the past three years and this victory goes to them,” said Team Manager, Ronny Lauke.
Rider reactions:
Alena Amialiusik: “It’s an amazing feeling to be world champion with these girls. It was so fast today but we were always smooth so it didn’t even feel like we were going that fast! We were all surprised when we looked down at our bike computers after the race. It was incredible how smooth we were, as though we were riding like one rider, not six. I’m just really, really proud. And our coloured Zipp Super-9 discs!!! They were so cool and fast!!”
Trixi Worrack: “I think people didn’t expect us to win. But we knew if we had a good day, then we were definitely a chance to do really well. We had a perfect day today. In no other training day did we have a day like today. We were getting feedback on the split times in the radio, but I could also feel that we were riding well. In the group, it did not feel that fast because we were so smooth and you could recover so well at the back. When I looked down to my speed, it was always so high. It was a great ride from everyone. At the podium, I was crying because I was happy we won but also because I was sad. It was my last race with CANYON//SRAM Racing. This win means a lot.”
Elena Cecchini: “It is something that I have been chasing for a long time. It’s like everything came back today. I always believed that it would come and we would be able to have this feeling. When you go through hard times you sometimes start to doubt it. But today was all up, up, up. Our preparation, our equipment, our ride. An amazing day. I can now go into the off season in peace!”
Alice Barnes: “It’s my first team time trial podium and it’s special to be on the top at world championships. I think it hasn’t sunk in yet. I’m very happy and it’s special to be on the podium together. I felt really good and I’m happy that I could contribute today. I felt going in to the race that I was the weakest rider on our team, definitely technically and I have the least experience. But I felt that I could help the team and I’m really proud of my own effort and the other girls too.”
Lisa Klein: “It’s an amazing feeling. I still can’t believe it, it’s crazy. It’s so special to win it as a team. I felt that we had a great rhythm, with high speeds and we took care of each other during the race. I felt comfortable throughout and arriving to the finish line with six riders I think was key. When I came from my pull at the front, I had time to recover and be ready for the next one. In the end, of course you are suffering the whole time, but it made a difference having six of us there.”
Hannah Barnes: “We rode really smoothly. We wanted to do a perfect ride and if I think back now there’s nothing we can fault from our ride today. We did everything right. This feels so cool to win it. I was thinking during the race, that even if we didn’t win that we could be happy because we rode so well as a team. But to win and then be able to celebrate all together on the podium, this is really special.”
Complete results:
Winner's speed: 52.544 km/hr
| 1 | CANYON // SRAM RACING (GER) | 1hr 1min 46.60sec |
| BARNES Hannah | GBR | |
| CECCHINI Elena | ITA | |
| BARNES Alice | GBR | |
| WORRACK Trixi | GER | |
| KLEIN Lisa | GER | |
| AMIALIUSIK Alena | BLR | |
| 2 | BOELS DOLMANS CYCLINGTEAM (NED) | @ 21.90sec |
| MAJERUS Christine | LUX | |
| DIDERIKSEN Amalie | DEN | |
| PIETERS Amy | NED | |
| CANUEL Karol-Ann | CAN | |
| van der BREGGEN Anna | NED | |
| BLAAK Chantal | NED | |
| 3 | TEAM SUNWEB (NED) | @ 28.67sec |
| LIPPERT Liane | GER | |
| MATHIESEN Pernille | DEN | |
| RIVERA Coryn | USA | |
| van DIJK Ellen | NED | |
| BRAND Lucinda | NED | |
| KIRCHMANN Leah | CAN | |
| 4 | WIGGLE HIGH5 (GBR) | @ 57.38sec |
| FAHLIN Emilia | SWE | |
| WILD Kirsten | NED | |
| EDMONDSON Annette | AUS | |
| BRENNAUER Lisa | GER | |
| CORDON RAGOT Audrey | FRA | |
| ARCHIBALD Katie | GBR | |
| 5 | MITCHELTON SCOTT (AUS) | @ 1min 29.77sec |
| ALLEN Jessica | AUS | |
| KENNEDY Lucy | AUS | |
| ROY Sarah | AUS | |
| ELVIN Gracie | AUS | |
| D'HOORE Jolien | BEL | |
| WILLIAMS Georgia | NZL | |
| 6 | TEAM VIRTU CYCLING (DEN) | @ 2min 6.23sec |
| GUARISCHI Barbara | ITA | |
| SCHWEIZER Doris | SUI | |
| KROGER Mieke | GER | |
| PENTON Sara | SWE | |
| SCHMIDT Trine | DEN | |
| HANSEN Louise Norman | DEN | |
| 7 | BTC CITY LJUBLJANA (SLO) | @ 3min 8.44sec |
| NILSSON Hanna | SWE | |
| BATAGELJ Polona | SLO | |
| BUJAK Eugenia | SLO | |
| BOOGAARD Maaike | NED | |
| LECHNER Corinna | GER | |
| IAKOVENKO Anastasiia | RUS | |
| 8 | VALCAR PBM (ITA) | @ 3min 35.36sec |
| VIGILIA Alessia | ITA | |
| SANGUINETI Ilaria | ITA | |
| CONFALONIERI Maria Giulia | ITA | |
| BALSAMO Elisa | ITA | |
| CONSONNI Chiara | ITA | |
| CAVALLI Marta | ITA | |
| 9 | BEPINK (ITA) | @ 3min 36.10sec |
| MORZENTI Lisa | ITA | |
| MEDVEDOVA Tereza | SVK | |
| STEIGENGA Nicole | NED | |
| GUDERZO Tatiana | ITA | |
| VALSECCHI Silvia | ITA | |
| PATTARO Francesca | ITA | |
| 10 | ALE CIPOLLINI (ITA) | @ 3min 53.54sec |
| PALADIN Soraya | ITA | |
| HOSKING Chloe | AUS | |
| TREVISI Anna | ITA | |
| RAGAZINSKIENE Daiva | LTU | |
| KNETEMANN Roxane | NED | |
| SWINKELS Karlijn | NED | |
| 11 | COGEAS - METTLER PRO CYCLING TEAM (RUS) | @ 3min 56.69sec |
| CHRISTOFOROU Antri | CYP | |
| AUGUSTINAS Evgenia | RUS | |
| ZABELINSKAYA Olga | UZB | |
| OSHURKOVA Elizaveta | RUS | |
| PITEL Edwige | FRA | |
| BADYKOVA Gulnaz | RUS | |
| 12 | PARKHOTEL VALKENBURG (NED) | @ 4min 10.83sec |
| HOEKSMA Ilona | NED | |
| RAAIJMAKERS Marit | NED | |
| WIEBES Lorena | NED | |
| BUIJSMAN Nina | NED | |
| van VEEN Esther | NED | |
| van GOGH Natalie | NED |
Women's Team Time Trial photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Mitchelton-Scott was fifth
Third-place Team Sunweb
Second-place Boels-Dolmans
Canyon-SRAM riding to their gold medal
The podium, from left: Boels-Dolmans (3rd), Canyon-SRAM (1st) & Sunweb (3rd)