2023 World Road Cycling Championships

90th edition: August 5 - 13, 2023
Glasgow & Stirling, Scotland

Sunday, August 6: Elite Men's Road Race Edinburgh - Glasgow, 271.1 km

Elite Men's road race map & profile | Elite men's road race photos

Mathieu van der Poel is Champion of the World.

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Weather at the finish city of Glasgow at 12:30 PM, local time: 18C (64F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 11 km/hr (7 mph). There is a 9% chance of rain, growing to 56% at 4:00.

Update: At 3:45 PM, with 34 km to go, there is light rain falling.

The race: 195 riders from 58 countries are entered. Two listed riders did not start, Morné Van Niekerk (South Africa) & Yevgeny Federov (Kazakstan). About 60 kilometers in the race there was a small crash that forced Natnael Berhane (Eritrea) to abandon.

Shortly thereafter a protest forced the race to be temporarily neutralized. After a delay of about 55 minutes, it was restared at about 12:15.

After the race was neutralised a little over 190km into the action, a statement from the UCI read: “Further to Police Scotland’s confirmation of a protest in the Carron Valley area, which has temporarily interrupted the men’s road race, we are working closely with all relevant authorities to minimise disruption to the race and also to ensure the safety of riders as our paramount concern.”

The Elite Men's Road Race is stopped by a protest. Photo: Alex Broadway/SWpic.com

Mathieu van der Poel went solo near the end, crashed on the wet streets, got back up and was still off the front alone with a 1-minute lead, with 6 kms to go.

Van der Poel was on song today, riding to the finish alone and ever increasing his lead. The new World Champion finished more than a minute and a half in front of his nearest chaser, the excellent Wout van Aert.

Here is the report from silver medalist Wout van Aert's Team Jumbo Visma:

Wout van Aert has finished second at the world road cycling championships. After a gruelling race in Glasgow, Scotland, the 28-year-old Belgian of Team Jumbo-Visma, was beaten by Mathieu van der Poel. It is the second road world championship silver medal of Van Aert's career.

The road race at the World Championships, held in early August this year for a change, turned into a battleground. A flurry of attacks created the first breakaway more than 100 kilometres from the finish line, including the Jumbo-Visma riders Van Aert, Tiesj Benoot, Nathan van Hooydonck and Dylan van Baarle. Christophe Laporte had to let go at the front due to equipment failure.

65 km to go.

After Benoot and Van Hooydonck, among others, began to ride in Van Aert's service, an elite group of four riders remained in pursuit of Alberto Bettiol, who had escaped alone. The Italian was caught after a solo ride of several dozen kilometres by the group that included Van Aert, Van der Poel, Mads Pedersen and Tadej Pogacar. At this point, Van der Poel attacked. Van Aert held on the longest but eventually had to let the Dutchman go. Van der Poel rode the last twenty kilometres solo to the line, despite a crash in the closing stages. Van Aert continued to chase and again showed his strong legs to take the silver medal.

Wout van Aert finishes second.

After receiving his medal, Van Aert told his story. "Of course, I came here for the gold medal, but I am realistic enough to say that silver was the highest achievable today. That is why I am still standing here as a somewhat satisfied person. When Mathieu attacked, I was right on his wheel. I could stay with him for a while, but then I had to let him go. Even though we gave everything in the chase, Mads, Tadej and I immediately understood that he was gone.”

The Belgian continued: "It was a blistering race that eventually turned into a man-to-man battle. I was always in an excellent position. I think that was the key to success on this track. I cannot thank my teammates enough for their support throughout the day. I was confident in the corners and wanted to take the initiative on the climbs. The legs were good, but one rider just proved to be better. Hats off to Mathieu for what he did today. My focus is now on next week's time trial.”

New World Champion Mathieu van der Poel, alone and off the front near the finish.

Fellow countryman Benoot struggled, but he could do the necessary work for his leader. "The course was gruelling, but I got through it. Wout asked me to take the initiative and control the race. Once he took over, only the strongest were left at the front. It is a shame that Wout could not crown his great day with a gold medal, but Mathieu is the rightful new world champion. He peaked again today at the right time; we can and must be honest about that”, said Benoot, who finished ninth.

Mathieu van der Poel in his Rainbow Jersey

Complete results:

Photos

271.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.267 km/hr

1	Mathieu van der Poel	Netherlands	6hr 7min 27sec
2	Wout van Aert	Belgium	@ 1min 37sec
3	Tadej Pogačar	Slovenia	1:45
4	Mads Pedersen	Denmark	s.t.
5	Stefan Küng	Switzerland	3:48
6	Jasper Stuyven	Belgium	s.t.
7	Matthew Dinham	Australia	s.t.
8	Toms Skujiņš	Latvia	s.t.
9	Tiesj Benoot	Belgium	s.t.
10	Alberto Bettiol	Italy	4:03
11	Neilson Powless	United States	4:20
12	Dylan Van Baarle	Netherlands	4:24
13	Mauro Schmid	Switzerland	5:50
14	Mattias Skjelmose	Denmark	6:22
15	Valentin Madouas	France	7:53
16	John Degenkolb	Germany	8:30
17	Rasmus Tiller	Norway	s.t.
18	Owain Doull	Great Britain	s.t.
19	Alex Aranburu	Spain	s.t.
20	Kevin Vermaerke	United States	s.t.
21	Simon Clarke	Australia	s.t.
22	Patrick Gamper	Austria	s.t.
23	Krists Neilands	Latvia	8:55
24	Petr Kelemen	Czech Republic	10:01
25	Remco Evenepoel	Belgium	10:10
26	Connor Swift	Great Britain	13:59
27	Simone Velasco	Italy	s.t.
28	Lorenzo Rota	Italy	s.t.
29	Emīls Liepiņš	Latvia	s.t.
30	Iván García Cortina	Spain	s.t.
31	Marco Haller	Austria	s.t.
32	Lucas Eriksson	Sweden	s.t.
33	Matevž Govekar	Slovenia	s.t.
34	Kristian Sbaragli	Italy	s.t.
35	Michael Gogl	Austria	s.t.
36	Guillaume Boivin	Canada	s.t.
37	Michael Boroš	Czech Republic	s.t.
38	Sebastian Schönberger	Austria	s.t.
39	Andrea Bagioli	Italy	s.t.
40	Nickolas Zukowsky	Canada	14:06
41	Jonas Rutsch	Germany	s.t.
42	Adam Ťoupalík	Czech Republic	s.t.
43	Silvan Dillier	Switzerland	s.t.
44	Yves Lampaert	Belgium	14:11
45	Olav Kooij	Netherlands	s.t.
46	Nelson Oliveira	Portugal	14:13
47	Benoît Cosnefroy	France	s.t.
48	Ryan Christensen	New Zealand	s.t.
49	Alexey Lutsenko	Kazakhstan	14:15
50	Andreas Leknessund	Norway	14:18
51	Tobias Halland Johannessen	Norway	s.t.

 

Course map & profile:

Elite Men's road race map

Elite Men's road race profile

Elite men's road race photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

The peloton in Glasgow.

Alberto Bettiol

I believe that is Belgium's Tiesj Bennot and Wout van Aert

France's Valentin Madouas

Austria's Marco Haller

John Degenkolb

Mattias Skjelmose Jensen

Tadej Pogacar riding to third place

He's gone. Mathieu van der Poel heads to the finish line and a rainbow jersey.

Mathieu van der Poel has left everyone behind.

Mathieu van der Poel certainly earned his rainbow stripes.

The podium, from left: Wout van Aert (2nd), Mathieu van der Poel (1st) & Tadej Pogacar (3rd)

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Saturday, August 12: Men Under-23 Road Race, Loch Lomond - Glasgow, 168.4 km

Men Under-23 road race map & profile

Frenchman Axel Laurance makes good his escape to become champion of the world. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the finish city of Glasgow at 12:40 PM, local time: 18C (65F), cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 26 km/hr (16 mph). At 1:00 there is a 57% chance of rain. It was raining at the start of the race.

The race: Axel Laurance (France) had a 15-second lead in the men's U23 road race with five kilometers to go. There was a five-man chasing group.

France's Axel Laurance did it, giving it his all to stay away from the chasing bunch and win the men's U23 road race.

The lead chasing group finished in a small bunch sprint, with Great Britain's Jack Rootkin-Gray narrowly missing out on the podium behind Antonio Morgado (Portugal) and Martin Svrcek (Slovakia).

Complete results:

168.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.246 km/hr

1	Axel Laurance	France	4hr 4min 58sec
2	António Morgado	Portugal	@ 2sec
3	Martin Svrček	Slovakia	s.t.
4	Jack Rootkin-Gray	Great Britain	s.t.
5	Lorenzo Milesi	Italy	s.t.
6	Moritz Kretschy	Germany	0:09
7	Alec Segaert	Belgium	1:01
8	Iván Romeo	Spain	s.t.
9	Max Walker	Great Britain	1:03
10	Pierre Gautherat	France	1:41
11	Carlos Canal	Spain	1:43
12	Trym Brennsæter	Norway	2:33
13	Igor Arrieta	Spain	2:35
14	Henri Uhlig	Germany	3:07
15	Luke Lamperti	United States	3:16
16	Colby Simmons	United States	s.t.
17	Tim Torn Teutenberg	Germany	s.t.
18	Robert Donaldson	Great Britain	s.t.
19	Loe Van Belle	Netherlands	s.t.
20	Mats Wenzel	Luxembourg	s.t.
21	Davide De Pretto	Italy	s.t.
22	Gil Gelders	Belgium	s.t.
23	Pavel Bittner	Czech Republic	s.t.
24	Kasper Andersen	Denmark	s.t.
25	Darren Rafferty	Ireland	s.t.
26	Logan Currie	New Zealand	s.t.
27	Thibau Nys	Belgium	3:24
28	Madis Mihkels	Estonia	3:28
29	Aivaras Mikutis	Lithuania	4:54
30	Alekss Krasts	Latvia	s.t.
31	Hamza Amari	Algeria	s.t.
32	Pierre-Pascal Keup	Germany	s.t.
33	Fabio Christen	Switzerland	s.t.
34	Jakub Ťoupalík	Czech Republic	s.t.
35	Alexander Hajek	Austria	s.t.
36	Yuhi Todome	Japan	s.t.
37	Gonçalo Tavares	Portugal	s.t.
38	Pavel Novák	Czech Republic	4:57
39	Nicolò Buratti	Italy	6:50
40	Alastair Mackellar	Australia	8:07
41	Brody Mcdonald	United States	s.t.
42	Casper Van Uden	Netherlands	8:16
43	Anders Foldager	Denmark	s.t.
44	Gal Glivar	Slovenia	s.t.
45	Rotem Tene	Israel	s.t.
46	Andrey Remkhe	Kazakhstan	s.t.
47	Pepijn Reinderink	Netherlands	s.t.
48	Riley Pickrell	Canada	s.t.
49	Diego Pescador	Colombia	s.t.
50	Alessandro Romele	Italy	s.t.
51	Lukas Nerurkar	Great Britain	s.t.
52	Vicente Rojas	Chile	s.t.
53	Diogo Gonçalves	Portugal	8:20
54	Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk	Netherlands	8:27
55	Ole Theiler	Germany	9:21
56	Owen Cole	United States	s.t.
57	Enzo Paleni	France	9:56
58	Philippe Jacob	Canada	10:01
59	Milkias Kudus	Eritrea	10:19
60	Germán Dario Gómez	Colombia	10:58
61	Pablo Sandino Bonilla	Uruguay	12:25
62	Axel Källberg	Finland	s.t.
63	Maksym Bilyi	Ukraine	s.t.
64	Jesse Kramer	Netherlands	s.t.
65	Jose Manuel Aramayo	Bolivia	s.t.
66	Odhran Doogan	Ireland	s.t.
67	Michał Pomorski	Poland	s.t.
68	Hamish McKenzie	Australia	s.t.
69	Dylan Jiménez	Costa Rica	s.t.
70	Dean Harvey	Ireland	s.t.
71	Jamie Meehan	Ireland	s.t.
72	Jonathan  Vervenne	Belgium	s.t.
73	Frank Aron Ragilo	Estonia	s.t.
74	Embret Svestad-Bårdseng	Norway	12:28
75	Cesar Macias	Mexico	13:24
76	Kiya Rogora	Ethiopia	15:04
77	Aklilu Arefayne	Eritrea	15:44
78	Eddy Le Huitouze	France	17:26
79	Carl-Frederik Bévort	Denmark	19:55

 

Course map & profile:

The Under-23 Men's Road Race map

The Under-23 Men's Road Race profile

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Saturday, August 5: Junior Men's Road Race, Glasgow - Glasgow, 9 x 14.3 km laps, 127.2 km

Junior Men's road race map & profile

Albert Philipsen is Champion of the World. Sirotti photo.

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Weather at the finish city of Glasgow at 12:50 PM, local time: 16C (61F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the northeast at 18 km/hr (10 mph). There is a 50% chance of rain.

The race: Denmark has its first gold medal at this year's World Championships.

With four laps to go a break of seven riders were 1min 8sec ahead of the peloton. The peloton chased hard and with three laps to go the gap was just 36 seconds.

Albert Philipsen tore away from the breakaway of 7 riders with around 1 lap to go and never looked back. Second and third place went to Fietzke (Germany) and Ørn-Kristoff (Norway). 

The junior men's peloton racing through Glasgow. Sirotti photo

Results:

127.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.098 km/hr

1	Albert Withen Philipsen	Denmark	3hr 6min 26sec
2	Paul Fietzke	Germany	@ 1min 19sec
3	Felix Ørn-Kristoff	Norway	s.t.
4	Juan David Sierra	Italy	1:24
5	Theodor Storm	Denmark	1:29
6	Jørgen Nordhagen	Norway	1:43
7	Steffen De Schuyteneer	Belgium	2:57
8	Sebastian Grindley	Great Britain	2:59
9	Žak Eržen	Slovenia	3:01
10	Oscar Chamberlain	Australia	s.t.
11	Senna Remijn	Netherlands	s.t.
12	Kryštof Král	Czech Republic	s.t.
13	Storm Ingebrigtsen	Norway	s.t.
14	Sente Sentjens	Belgium	s.t.
15	Kasper Haugland	Norway	s.t.
16	Theodor Clemmensen	Denmark	s.t.
17	Wil Holmes	Australia	s.t.
18	Viego Tijssen	Netherlands	s.t.
19	Mikal Uglehus	Norway	s.t.
20	Matys Grisel	France	s.t.
21	Andrea Bessega	Italy	s.t.
22	Jakob Omrzel	Slovenia	s.t.
23	Tomos Pattinson	Great Britain	s.t.
24	Patryk Goszczurny	Poland	s.t.
25	Paul Seixas	France	s.t.
26	Adria Pericas	Spain	s.t.
27	Louis Leidert	Germany	s.t.
28	Joshua Cranage	Australia	s.t.
29	Kasper Borremans	Finland	s.t.
30	Hector Alvarez	Spain	s.t.
31	Henry Neff	United States	3:06
32	Erazem Valjavec	Slovenia	3:18
33	Matthew Brennan	Great Britain	3:44
34	Karst Hayma	Netherlands	6:20
35	Matthias Schwarzbacher	Slovakia	6:34
36	Victor Vaneeckhoute	Belgium	10:21
37	Maxime Decomble	France	s.t.
38	Ian Kings	Germany	s.t.
39	Luke Fetzer	United States	11:58
40	Lars Vanden Heede	Belgium	s.t.
41	Sjors Lugthart	Netherlands	12:07
42	Daniil Yakovlev	Ukraine	s.t.
43	Ville Merlöv	Sweden	12:11
44	Kristupas Mikutis	Lithuania	12:14
45	Zsombor Tamás Takács	Hungary	12:21
46	Victor Benareau	Switzerland	12:29
47	Thom Van Der Werff	Netherlands	s.t.
48	Ikki Watanabe	Japan	s.t.
49	Charles Bergeron	Canada	s.t.
50	Martti Lenzius	Estonia	s.t.
51	Bernardo Gaston Cambareri	Argentina	s.t.
52	Ciro Perez	Uruguay	s.t.
53	Bálint Feldhoffer	Hungary	s.t.
54	Filip Gruszczynski	Poland	s.t.
55	Finn Wilson	New Zealand	s.t.
56	Martin Bárta	Czech Republic	s.t.
57	Marcel Skok	Slovenia	s.t.
58	Andrey André	Brazil	s.t.
59	Andrei Carbunarea	Romania	s.t.
60	Alvaro Garcia	Spain	s.t.
61	Ryno Schutte	South Africa	s.t.
62	Nicolas Ginter	Switzerland	s.t.
63	Florian Hochuli	Switzerland	s.t.
64	Matthew Ney	Canada	s.t.
65	Manolo Wrolich	Austria	12:41
66	Andreas Krogh Jensen	Denmark	12:42
67	Gusts Lapins	Latvia	12:48
68	Julian Abi Manyu	Indonesia	12:51
69	Seth Dunwoody	Ireland	14:25
70	Luiz Fernando Bomfim	Brazil	18:56

Junior Men's Road Race map & profile

Junior men's road race map, 14.3 kms per lap, 9 laps

Junior men's road race profile

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Sunday, August 13: Elite Womens Road Race, Loch Lomand - Glasgow, 154.1 km

Elite women's road race map & profile

Lotte Kopecky is champion of the world.

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Weather at the finish city of Glasgow at 1:00 PM, local time: 17C (63F), cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 19 km/hr (12 mph). There is a 50% chance of rain, dropping to 24% at 4:00. It was raining on the riders when the race started.

The race: There were two notable non-starters: Chloe Dygert (USA & new world time trial champion) & Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Poland). USA Cyclng said that Dygert was ill.

Belgian racer Lote Kopecky’s attack with around 5 kilometers to go was the winning move of this year's women's elite road race.

It's her third rainbow jersey of these amazing world championships, following her victories in the Points race and Elimination on the Track.

Tour de France Femmes winner Demi Vollering (Netherlands) pipped Cecilie Ludwig (Denmark) to second place in a sprint for the line.

Great Britain's Lizzie Deignan finished 6th.

Complete results:

154.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.175 km/hr

1	Lotte Kopecky	Belgium	4hr 2min 12sec
2	Demi Vollering	Netherlands	@ 7sec
3	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig	Denmark	s.t.
4	Marlen Reusser	Switzerland	0:12
5	Christina Schweinberger	Austria	0:34
6	Elizabeth Deignan	Great Britain	s.t.
7	Elise  Chabbey	Switzerland	1:24
8	Annemiek Van Vleuten	Netherlands	2:48
9	Riejanne Markus	Netherlands	3:51
10	Mavi García	Spain	4:05
11	Blanka Vas	Hungary	4:34
12	Silvia Persico	Italy	s.t.
13	Shirin Van Anrooij	Netherlands	s.t.
14	Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka	Poland	s.t.
15	Ashleigh Moolman	South Africa	s.t.
16	Juliette Labous	France	s.t.
17	Anna Shackley	Great Britain	s.t.
18	Lauren Stephens	United States	s.t.
19	Liane Lippert	Germany	s.t.
20	Chiara Consonni	Italy	5:13
21	Marta Lach	Poland	8:11
22	Justine Ghekiere	Belgium	8:26
23	Lauretta Hanson	Australia	s.t.
24	Grace Brown	Australia	s.t.
25	Jelena Erić	Serbia	s.t.
26	Audrey Cordon-Ragot	France	s.t.
27	Paula Patiño	Colombia	s.t.
28	Pfeiffer Georgi	Great Britain	s.t.
29	Elisa Balsamo	Italy	s.t.
30	Elena Cecchini	Italy	8:29
31	Soraya Paladin	Italy	s.t.
32	Simone Boilard	Canada	9:11
33	Alison Jackson	Canada	13:47
34	Olivia Baril	Canada	s.t.
35	Julie De Wilde	Belgium	14:42
36	Megan Jastrab	United States	s.t.
37	Romy Kasper	Germany	14:49
38	Kathrin Schweinberger	Austria	s.t.
39	Anastasia Carbonari	Latvia	s.t.
40	Marthe Goossens	Belgium	s.t.
41	Karolina Kumiega	Poland	s.t.
42	Eri Yonamine	Japan	s.t.
43	Dominika Włodarczyk	Poland	s.t.
44	Linda Riedmann	Germany	s.t.
45	Loes Adegeest	Netherlands	s.t.
46	Sarah Van Dam	Canada	s.t.
47	Marianne Vos	Netherlands	s.t.
48	Carina Schrempf	Austria	s.t.
49	Sandra Alonso	Spain	s.t.
50	Teniel Campbell	Trinidad & Tobago	s.t.
51	Ella Wyllie	New Zealand	s.t.
52	Franziska Koch	Germany	s.t.
53	Arlenis Sierra	Cuba	s.t.
54	Eugenia Bujak	Slovenia	s.t.
55	Niamh Fisher-Black	New Zealand	s.t.
56	Tereza Neumanova	Czech Republic	s.t.
57	Alexandra Manly	Australia	s.t.
58	Emilia Fahlin	Sweden	s.t.
59	Claire Steels	Great Britain	s.t.
60	Marie Schreiber	Luxembourg	s.t.
61	Noëlle Rüetschi	Switzerland	s.t.
62	Eliška Kvasničková	Czech Republic	s.t.
63	Maggie Coles-Lyster	Canada	s.t.
64	Kimberley Le Court	Mauritius	s.t.
65	Luyao Zeng	China	s.t.
66	Marthe Truyen	Belgium	s.t.
67	Ricarda Bauernfeind	Germany	s.t.
68	Lara Gillespie	Ireland	s.t.
69	Sanne Cant	Belgium	s.t.
70	Elena Hartmann	Switzerland	14:58
71	Rasa Leleivytė	Lithuania	s.t.
72	Yee Leung Wing	Hong Kong	s.t.
73	Léa Curinier	France	s.t.
74	Antonia Niedermaier	Germany	15:01
75	Lilibeth Chacón	Venezuela	s.t.
76	Amalie Lutro	Norway	15:04
77	Yanina Kuskova	Uzbekistan	s.t.
78	Kim Cadzow	New Zealand	15:05
79	Megan Armitage	Ireland	s.t.
80	Olha Kulynych	Ukraine	s.t.
81	Diana Peñuela	Colombia	s.t.
82	Marcela Prieto	Mexico	s.t.
83	Sara Poidevin	Canada	15:09
84	Mischa Bredewold	Netherlands	15:21
85	Marte Berg Edseth	Norway	19:46
86	Julia Borgström	Sweden	s.t.

 

Elite women's road race map & profile:

Elite women's road race map

Elite women's road race profile

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Saturday, August 5: Junior Women's Road Race, Glasgow - Glasgow, 5 laps, 70.3 km

Junior women's road race map & profile

France's Julie Bego takes a brilliant solo win. Sirotti photo

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The race: With 20km to go in the women's junior road race, the Frenchwoman and one of the pre-race favourites Julie Bego went 12-seconds clear.

With 3km left in the women's junior road race, Julie Bego still had a 20 second lead on the chasing pack, which included Team GB's Cat Ferguson.

That attack by France's Bego turned out to be the world championship winning move.

Here's the report from Eurosport:

France's Julie Bego produced a stunning performance to win the Women's Junior Road Race from Great Britain's Cat Ferguson at the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. Bego launched an attack on the penultimate lap and wouldn't be caught, crossing the line nine seconds clear of Ferguson and Belgium's Fleur Moors, who rounded out the podium in third.

France’s Julie Bego sealed an impressive solo victory in the Women’s Junior Road Race at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, denying home favourite Cat Ferguson a fairytale gold medal.

Bego made her move with 20km of the 70.3km race to go, building a gap and maintaining her lead to the line to finish nine seconds clear of Ferguson and Belgium’s Fleur Moors, who rounded out the podium in third.

The course was not without its challenges. Sirotti photo

After the race, Bego paid tribute to her French team-mates that helped her clinch gold.
“It’s two months that I’ve been telling everyone that I’ll be world champion,”Bego said. “Today I made it happen. I’ve worked so hard, and there have been six months that I’ve thought about it.

“I was afraid that I wanted it so much I’d make mistakes. I had an amazing team around me, and today I knew that success wouldn’t just be about how strong I was but how the team would be there.

“The atmosphere in the team was amazing… I’m the world champion but I also had the best team today.”

The jubilant French team after the race. Sirotti photo

The race began in Glasgow’s famous George Square, with Great Britain setting the early pace.

It was a contest between four nations in the early phase until it became a battle to the line between riders from Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy.
Carys Lloyd of Great Britain upped the pace with 43km to go but was caught by the pack a few kilometres later before Bego made the decisive move on the penultimate lap.

She quickly opened up a significant gap at and began the final circuit 15 seconds clear as she closed in on victory in tricky conditions as a short Scottish shower swept the area.

Ferguson launched an attack in an effort to hunt down her rival but failed to make a significant dent in her deficit as the race entered the final 10km.

Belgium’s Xaydee van Dinaey and Fleur Moors were next to attack, followed by Italy’s Federica Venturelli, but nobody could match the Frenchwoman, whose advantage was an almost-unassailable 30 seconds with 2km to go, allowing her the opportunity to savour her ride to glory.

Bego admitted she thought she might have mistimed her attack but that she took a few calculated risks to hang on to her advantage.

“I was told to stay quiet for the first few laps and come to the front in the third lap and in the end attacked before the last lap. I was worried I went too far out, and I wouldn’t have the strength to go all the way to the finish.

"I convinced myself that I wasn’t going to make it just to be focused. I took a few risks in the corners but now I’m world champion.”

Complete results:

70.3 km raced at an average speed of 36.716 km/hr

1	Julie Bego	France	1hr 54min 53sec
2	Cat Ferguson	Great Britain	@ 9sec
3	Fleur Moors	Belgium	s.t.
4	Federica Venturelli	Italy	s.t.
5	Imogen Wolff	Great Britain	0:12
6	Titia Ryo	France	s.t.
7	Célia Gery	France	s.t.
8	Isabella Holmgren	Canada	0:15
9	Mackenzie Coupland	Australia	s.t.
10	Xaydee Van Sinaey	Belgium	0:17
11	Elyne Roussel	France	s.t.
12	Viktoria Chladonova	Slovakia	s.t.
13	Awen Roberts	Great Britain	0:20
14	Alberte Greve	Denmark	1:08
15	Carys Lloyd	Great Britain	2:36
16	Izzy Sharp	Great Britain	2:45
17	Hannah Kunz	Germany	s.t.
18	Sara Piffer	Italy	s.t.
19	Talia Appleton	Australia	s.t.
20	Tabea Huys	Austria	s.t.
21	Ema Comte	France	s.t.
22	Lauren Molengraaf	Netherlands	s.t.
23	Kamilla Aasebø	Norway	s.t.
24	Anina Hutter	Switzerland	s.t.
25	Eleonora La Bella	Italy	2:52
26	Jule Märkl	Germany	s.t.
27	Lore De Schepper	Belgium	s.t.
28	Zoë Van Velzen	Netherlands	2:59
29	Pia Grünewald	Germany	3:03
30	Lara Liehner	Switzerland	4:16
31	Stina Kagevi	Sweden	4:54
32	Lucy Benezet Minns	Ireland	5:07
33	Marta Pavesi	Italy	5:38
34	Fee Knaven	Netherlands	6:03
35	Ida Krickau Ketelsen	Denmark	s.t.
36	Puck Langenbarg	Netherlands	s.t.
37	Luca Vierstraete	Belgium	6:51
38	Juliana Londoño	Colombia	6:53
39	Martyna Szczęsna	Poland	s.t.
40	Alexandra Volstad	Canada	6:56
41	Nela Kaňkovská	Czech Republic	s.t.
42	Angie Mariana Londoño	Colombia	8:02
43	Makala Jaramillo	United States	8:09
44	Ella Heremans	Belgium	8:22
45	Kateřina Douděrová	Czech Republic	8:27
46	Violeta Hernandez	Spain	s.t.
47	Aline Epp	Switzerland	8:36
48	Bonnie Rattray	New Zealand	s.t.
49	Maayan Tal	Israel	8:41
50	Aine Doherty	Ireland	10:12
51	Silje Bader	Netherlands	10:26
52	Tina Rücker	Germany	10:35
53	Barbara Cywińska	Poland	11:36
54	Nora Linton	Canada	12:08
55	Ella Sabo	United States	13:28
56	Valeria Ponomarenko	Ukraine	13:29
57	Natalia Alonso	Spain	13:38
58	Astrid Marie Sørensen	Denmark	13:54
59	Ella Brenneman	United States	s.t.
60	Olympia Norrid-Mortensen	Denmark	s.t.
61	Maia Barclay	New Zealand	s.t.
62	Laia Bosch	Spain	14:26
63	Anika Visser	South Africa	14:36
64	Lesly Yulieth Aguirre	Colombia	14:40
65	Felicity Wilson-Haffenden	Australia	15:41
66	Marta Marek	Poland	s.t.
67	Sara Pestotnik	Slovenia	s.t.
68	Raquel Dias	Portugal	s.t.
69	Ema Podberšič	Slovenia	s.t.
70	Martha Stokkeland	Norway	s.t.
71	Maria Guadalupe Nava	Mexico	s.t.
72	Daniela Simao	Portugal	s.t.
73	Ruby Spring	New Zealand	16:33
74	Skaistė Mikašauskaitė	Lithuania	17:13
75	Matilde Skjelde	Norway	17:34

 

Junior women's road race map & profile:

The Juniors women's race circuit, 5 laps.

Junior women's road race profile

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Tuesday, August 8: Team Time Trial Mixed Relay, 40.3 km (2 x 20.15 km/lap)

Team Time Trial map & profile

The podium, from left: France (2nd), Switzerland(1st) & Germany (3rd). Sirotti photo

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Weather at the race city of Glasgow at 1:00 PM, local time: 17C (63F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the northwest at 21 km/hr (13 mph). No rain is forecast.

How it works: The Team Time Trial Mixed Relay sees squads of six - three women and three men - race a road circuit in turn. The men go first and race their lap as quickly as they can. The women can only go when the second man reaches them. The women push the pace and when the second woman crosses the finish line, the team has their time.

A single rider per team can drop out of each stage, so teams use this strategically by letting one rider lead the way to keep legs fresh for as long as they can. Communication, coordination and understanding of individual strengths will be key.

The race: Here's the race report from the Reuters News Agency:

Switzerland successfully defended their team time trial mixed relay crown at the world championships on Tuesday despite a crash for Marlen Reusser.

The Swiss were the last squad - which consists of three women and three men - to tackle the 40.3-kilometre circuit in Glasgow and were under pressure after France set the fastest time.

The crash did little to hurt their chances as Switzerland eventually finished with a time of 54 minutes and 16.20 seconds, a full seven seconds ahead of France while Germany were third.

The Swiss women. Sirotti photo

Stefan Bissegger, Stefan Kung and Mauro Schmid had a good start before they handed it over to the women's team consisting of Reusser, Elise Chabbey and Nicole Koller, when Reusser lost valuable time after a crash.

Reusser is one of the favourites for the individual time trial but she did manage to quickly get back on her bike to continue.

The Swiss men. Sirotti photo

Complete results:

40.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.555 km/hr

		Time	Time behind	Speed
1	SWITZERLAND (SUI)	54min 16.2sec		44.555 km/hhr
	BISSEGGER Stefan
	KUNG Stefan
	SCHMID Mauro
	CHABBEY Elise
	KOLLER Nicole
	REUSSER Marlen
2	FRANCE (FRA)	54:23.3	@ 7.08sec	44.458
	ARMIRAIL Bruno
	CAVAGNA Remi
	COQUARD Bryan
	CORDON RAGOT Audrey
	KERBAOL Cedrine
	LABOUS Juliette
3	GERMANY (GER)	55:07.5	51.31	43.864
	HEIDEMANN Miguel
	STEIMLE Jannik
	WALSCHEID Maximilian Richard
	BAUERNFEIND Ricarda
	KLEIN Lisa
	KOCH Franziska
4	GREAT BRITAIN (GBR)	55:19.6	+1:03.42	43.704
	BIGHAM Daniel
	CHARLTON Josh
	VERNON Ethan
	BACKSTEDT Elynor
	GEORGI Pfeiffer
	SHACKLEY Anna
5	ITALY (ITA)	55:33.2	+1:17.01	43.526
	BETTIOL Alberto
	CATTANEO Mattia
	MORO Manlio
	PATERNOSTER Letizia
	PERSICO Silvia
	VIGILIA Alessia
6	AUSTRALIA (AUS)	55:54.0	+1:37.79	43.256
	DURBRIDGE Luke
	MATTHEWS Michael
	PLAPP Lucas
	HANSON Lauretta
	CHAPMAN Brodie
	ROY Sarah
7	NETHERLANDS (NED)	55:59.6	+1:43.37	43.184
	HOOLE Daan
	van DIJKE Tim
	van EMDEN Jos
	ADEGEEST Loes
	van ANROOIJ Shirin
	MARKUS Riejanne
8	UNITED STATES (USA)	56:02.0	+1:45.85	43.152
	BARTA William
	CRADDOCK G Lawson
	POWLESS Neilson
	JASTRAB Megan
	LABECKI Coryn
	SCHNEIDER Skylar
9	AUSTRIA	56:14.0	+1:57.83	42.999
	GAMPER Patrick
	POSTLBERGER Lukas
	SCHONBERGER Sebastian
	SCHREMPF Carina
	SCHWEINBERGER Christina
	SCHWEINBERGER Kathrin
10	POLAND	57:03.1	+2:46.93	42.382
	BODNAR Maciej
	BROZYNA Piotr
	GAJDULEWICZ Mateusz
	JASKULSKA Marta
	LACH Marta
	SKALNIAK-SOJKA Agnieszka
11	SPAIN (ESP)	58:16.1	+3:59.93	41.497
	AZPARREN IRURZUN Xabier Mikel
	GARCIA PIERNA Raul
	ROMEO ABAD Ivan
	ALONSO DOMINGUEZ Sandra
	MARTIN MARTIN Sara
	TERUEL RIBES Alba
12	KAZAKHSTAN (KAZ)	59:29.3	+5:13.10	40.647
	CHZHAN Igor
	FEDOROV Yevgeniy
	GRUZDEV Dmitriy
	POTAPOVA Faina
	SULTANOVA Rinata
	UMUTZHANOVA Makhabbat
13	UZBEKISTAN (UZB)	59:42.1	+5:25.90	40.501
	BOCHAROV Dmitriy
	FOMOVSKIY Aleksey
	KHALMURATOV Muradjan
	KARIMOVA Sofiya
	KUSKOVA Yanina
	ZABELINSKAYA Olga
14	UCI WORLD CYCLING CENTRE (WCC) - Refugees	00:48.5	+6:32.27	39.765
	ARSLAN ANSARI Amir
	ROGORA Kiya
	WAIS Ahmad Badreddin
	GEREFIEL Selam Amha
	le ROUX Maude Elaine
	TASANE Elina
15	UKRAINE (UKR)	01:00.5	+6:44.27	39.634
	BILYI Maksym
	NOVAKOVSKYI Vitalii
	POLUPAN Dmytro
	BIRIUKOVA Yuliia
	NAHULIAK Daryna
	SHEKEL Olga
16	MAURITIUS (MRI)	01:24.0	+7:07.82	39.381
	de COMARMOND Aurelien
	MAYER Alexandre
	ROUGIER-LAGANE Christopher
	HALBWACHS Aurelie
	LAMUSSE Raphaelle
	le COURT de BILLOT Kimberley
17	CHINA (CHN)	01:28.5	+7:12.30	39.333
	JU Jinyang
	LI Tiancheng
	XUE Ming
	CUI Yuhang
	ZENG Luyao
	SUN Jiajun
18	AFGHANISTAN (AFG)	12:04.9	+17:48.75	33.545
	HAIDARI Qais
	JORAT Mohamad Islam
	MIRZAEE Ahmad
	HASHIMI Fariba
	HASHIMI Yulduz
	REZAYEE Zahra

 

Team Time Trial Mixed Relay map & profile:

Team Time Trial Mixed Relay map

Team Time Trial Mixed Relay profile

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Friday, August 11: Elite Men 47.8 km Individual Time Trial

Course map & profile

Remco Evenepoel rides to a rainbow jersey under gathering clouds.

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Weather at the start/finish city of Stirling at 12:40 PM, local time: 22C (70F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 23 km/hr (14 mph). There is a 35% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report posted by the IOC.

Remco Evenepoel reigns supreme at the UCI Cycling World Championships again.

Last year's road race world champion claimed 2023 honors in the men's individual time trial on Friday (11 August 2023) in Stirling, Scotland, to add to his impressive palmarès at just 23 years old.

The Belgian – the youngest time trial world champion in history – was second behind Italian favorite Filippo Ganna at the first time check on the 47.8km-long course in Scotland. But he quickly took hold of the race, going through each remaining intermediate as the fastest man before taking 12.28 seconds out of Ganna at the finish line.

Evenepoel's winning time was 55:19.23, with Ganna taking silver.

"I'm the first Belgian to ever win the world title in the TT, it was one of my biggest goals of the season to win today on a course which is maybe not perfect for a guy of my weight," Evenepoel said after the race.

Joshua Tarling of Great Britain became the youngest medalist in the event's history, with the 19-year-old putting in a stunning ride to win bronze, 48.20 seconds behind Evenepoel.

No teenager had ever finished in the top three of the world championships men's elite time trial before Tarling on Friday.

Complete results:

47.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 51.847 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Belgium	55min 19sec
2	Filippo Ganna	Italy	@ 12sec
3	Joshua Tarling	Great Britain	0:48
4	Brandon McNulty	United States	1:27
5	Wout van Aert	Belgium	1:37
6	Nelson Oliveira	Portugal	1:52
7	Rohan Dennis	Australia	1:54
8	Mattia Cattaneo	Italy	1:57
9	Mikkel Bjerg	Denmark	1:59
10	Geraint Thomas	Great Britain	2:04
11	Tobias Foss	Norway	2:05
12	Stefan Küng	Switzerland	2:17
13	Søren Wærenskjold	Norway	2:25
14	Jay Vine	Australia	2:27
15	Kasper Asgreen	Denmark	2:28
16	Lawson Craddock	United States	2:37
17	Stefan Bissegger	Switzerland	2:43
18	Derek Gee	Canada	2:58
19	Lennard Kämna	Germany	3:01
20	Ryan Mullen	Ireland	3:02
21	Bruno Armirail	France	3:04
22	Tadej Pogačar	Slovenia	3:06
23	Ryan Gibbons	South Africa	3:07
24	João Almeida	Portugal	3:08
25	Stefan De Bod	South Africa	3:11
26	Rémi Cavagna	France	3:13
27	Ben Healy	Ireland	3:14
28	Iver Knotten	Norway	3:15
29	Tom Sexton	New Zealand	3:21
30	Walter Vargas	Colombia	3:33
31	Maciej Bodnar	Poland	3:55
32	Nils Politt	Germany	3:56
33	Toms Skujiņš	Latvia	4:05
34	Daan Hoole	Netherlands	4:10
35	Harold Tejada	Colombia	4:11
36	Jos Van Emden	Netherlands	4:40
37	Patrick Gamper	Austria	4:41
38	Mathias Vacek	Czech Republic	4:53
39	Yevgeniy Fedorov	Kazakhstan	4:54
40	Xabier Mikel Azparren	Spain	5:08
41	Ognjen Ilić	Serbia	5:17
42	Andreas Miltiadis	Cyprus	5:44
43	Miltiadis Giannoutsos	Greece	5:50
44	Jakub Otruba	Czech Republic	5:51
45	Nickolas Zukowsky	Canada	6:51
46	Pablo Dotti Juan	Argentina	7:06
47	Aleksey Fomovskiy	Uzbekistan	7:10
48	Igor Chzhan	Kazakhstan	7:29
49	Charles Kagimu	Uganda	7:57
50	Muradjan Khalmuratov	Uzbekistan	9:06
51	Felix Ritzinger	Austria	9:07
52	Ingvar Ómarsson	Iceland	9:09
53	Jambaljamts Sainbayar	Mongolia	9:10
54	Ming Xue	China	9:20
55	Randish Abdul Lorenzo	Panama	9:59
56	Amir Arsalan Ansari	Refugee Team	10:04
57	Christopher Rougier-Lagane	Mauritius	10:20
58	Haoyu Su	China	10:57
59	Hasani Hennis	Anguilla	11:07
60	Ahmad Badreddin Wais	Refugee Team	12:07
61	Daniel Bonello	Malta	12:17
62	Aidan Buttigieg	Malta	s.t.
63	Vitalii Novakowskyi	Ukraine	12:41
64	Fadhel Alkhater	Qatar	16:07
65	Darel Christopher	British Virgin Islands	17:15
66	Mohammad Ganjkhanlou	Iran	17:42
67	Kluivert Mitchel	Saint Lucia	19:05
68	Edward Oingerang	Guam	20:12
69	Jacob Jones	Guam	20:17
70	Qais Haidari	Afghanistan	20:56
71	Christopher Symonds	Ghana	23:33
72	Ahmad Mirzaee	Afghanistan	23:42
73	Abdoulaye Bangoura	Guinea	24:20
74	Shabangu Muzi	Eswatini	25:40
75	Wiliam Gomes	Cape Verde	26:59
76	Renato Soares	Cape Verde	29:31
77	Henry Djangmah	Ghana	30:03

 

Course map & profile:

Elite men's time trial map

Elite men's time trial profile

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Wednesday, August 9: Men Under 23 Individual Time Trial, 36.2 km

Course map & profile

Lorenzo Milesi on his way to becoming Champion of the World.

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Weather at the start/finish city of Stirling at 12:30 PM, local time: 61F, partly cloudy, with the wind from the west at 9 mph.There is a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Alastair Mackellar (Australia) was the first rider scheduled to start at 2:30.

Here's the race report from winner Lorenzo Milesi's Team dsm-firmenich:

This afternoon in the city of Stirling, Lorenzo Milesi powered around the rolling time trial course, setting the timing sheets alight; becoming the U23 World Champion in remarkable fashion.

Having taken tenth last year representing Italy, Milesi was motivated to go even better this year and came in with confidence after a good TT at the Tour de Pologne with Team dsm-firmenich. Riding to the pacing plan of starting strong into the headwind and holding the effort, Milesi put on a dominant display of power over the 36 kilometre route. Using his experience from riding with the team and knowledge gained from the team’s experts, Milesi flew around the course and claimed the title by 11 seconds; after a superb ride. It’s a historic moment for the team, as it’s their first World title as Team dsm-firmenich.

Speaking after his effort a buoyant Milesi said: “It’s unbelievable. It was a brutal race; especially the last kilometre on the climb, it was really painful. It was painful to watch Segaert too all the time as it was close between us. I just went full from the start to the end. There was a headwind in the first part so it was important to start well and then keep it up. I just gave it everything to the line. I knew that I needed to push full to the end. It’s not sunk in yet, I think I will need a moment to realise just what’s happened. I want to thank everyone that’s been a part of this.”

Complete results:

36.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 50.512 km/hr

1	Lorenzo Milesi	Italy	43min 0sec
2	Alec Segaert	Belgium	@ 11sec
3	Hamish Mckenzie	Australia	0:50
4	Raúl García Pierna	Spain	0:53
5	Darren Rafferty	Ireland	0:56
6	Josh Charlton	Great Britain	1:11
7	Jakob Söderqvist	Sweden	1:18
8	Logan Currie	New Zealand	s.t.
9	Jan Christen	Switzerland	1:21
10	Michael Leonard	Canada	1:29
11	Jonathan Vervenne	Belgium	1:42
12	Alastair Mackellar	Australia	s.t.
13	Carl-Frederik Bévort	Denmark	s.t.
14	Callum Thornley	Great Britain	1:45
15	Iván Romeo	Spain	1:51
16	Eddy Le Huitouze	France	1:57
17	Aivaras Mikutis	Lithuania	s.t.
18	Loe Van Belle	Netherlands	2:02
19	Dean Harvey	Ireland	2:07
20	Gustav Wang	Denmark	s.t.
21	Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk	Netherlands	2:13
22	Enzo Paleni	France	2:18
23	Yuhi Todome	Japan	2:24
24	Fabian Weiss	Switzerland	2:26
25	Evan Boyle	United States	2:45
26	Tristan Jussaume	Canada	2:46
27	António Morgado	Portugal	2:56
28	Moritz Kretschy	Germany	s.t.
29	Mateusz Gajdulewicz	Poland	3:08
30	Andrey Remkhe	Kazakhstan	3:12
31	Viggo Moore	United States	3:22
32	Adrian Stieger	Austria	3:24
33	Alekss Krasts	Latvia	3:27
34	Brady Gilmore	Australia	3:29
35	Truls Nordhagen	Norway	s.t.
36	Mats Wenzel	Luxembourg	3:32
37	Exequiel Quintana Hector	Chile	3:38
38	Gonçalo Tavares	Portugal	3:43
39	Kacper Gieryk	Poland	3:46
40	Ole Theiler	Germany	3:47
41	Filip Řeha	Czech Republic	3:53
42	Maxim Taraskin	Kazakhstan	4:06
43	Kiya Rogora	Ethiopia	4:09
44	Martin Jurík	Slovakia	4:13
45	Dario Gómez Germán	Colombia	s.t.
46	Bryan Olivo	Italy	4:16
47	Natan Gregorčič	Slovenia	4:33
48	Dillon Geary	South Africa	4:40
49	Mateo Kalejmann	Argentina	4:49
50	Štěpán Telecký	Czech Republic	4:53
51	Filip Lohinský	Slovakia	4:57
52	Dylan Jiménez	Costa Rica	5:00
53	Anderson Arboleda	Colombia	5:01
54	Jose Muniz	Mexico	5:05
55	Juan Prieto Jose	Mexico	5:12
56	Dmitriy Bocharov	Uzbekistan	5:25
57	Jinyang Ju	China	6:00
58	Andy Royan Muhammad	Indonesia	6:15
59	Davíð Jónsson	Iceland	6:19
60	Paul Lomuria	Uganda	6:20
61	Renus Byiza Uhiriwe	Rwanda	6:22
62	Etienne Tuyizere	Rwanda	6:44
63	Bilal Alsaadi	Qatar	7:03
64	Dmytro Polupan	Ukraine	7:06
65	Samet Bulut	Turkey	7:07
66	Tymofii Predko	Ukraine	8:03
67	Ali Egin	Turkey	8:05
68	Ismail Anwar Muhammad	Pakistan	8:35
69	Tiancheng Li	China	s.t.
70	Aurelien De Comarmond	Mauritius	10:10
71	Jacob Schembri	Malta	10:54
72	Nayef Al Mesallam	Qatar	11:04
73	Mahmoud Bakr	Egypt	11:40
74	Luke Borg	Malta	12:18
75	Harold Fotsing Claude	Cameroon	13:29
76	Kohath Baron	Dominica	14:15
77	Ruben Lopes	Cape Verde	14:29
78	Leonarde Cosmo	Cape Verde	15:42

 

Course map & profile:

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Friday, August 11: Junior Men 22.8 km Individual Time Trial

Course map & profile

Oscar Chamberlain on his gold-medal winning ride. Photo: Getty Images

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Weather at the start/finish city of Stirling at 12:40 PM, local time: 22C (70F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the southwest at 23 km/hr (14 mph). There is a 35% chance of rain.

The race: Oscar Chamberlain won the junior men’s time trial world title in Sterling, beating Britain’s Ben Wiggins and Germany’s Louis Leidert with a wonderfully paced ride.

The Australian was 12 seconds down at the first intermediate time check after 10km. He then used his energy on the four rolling hills and dug deep on the cobbled climb to the finish within the shadow of Sterling castle.

Chamberlain set a time of 28:29, beating Wiggins (Bradley Wiggins’ son) by 24 seconds. Germany’s Louis Leidert was third at 34 seconds.

Wiggins was only 4 seconds down on Chamberlain at the second time check after 18.4km

Complete results:

22.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.028 km/hr

1	Oscar Chamberlain	Australia	28min 29sec
2	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	@ 25sec
3	Louis Leidert	Germany	0:34
4	Jørgen Nordhagen	Norway	0:38
5	Jacob Bush	Great Britain	0:51
6	Luca Giaimi	Italy	0:57
7	Duarte Marivoet	Belgium	0:58
8	Adam Rafferty	Ireland	s.t.
9	Andrew August	United States	1:02
10	Paul Fietzke	Germany	1:10
11	Liam O'Brien	Ireland	1:18
12	Matthew Ney	Canada	1:23
13	Mikal Grimstad Uglehus	Norway	1:24
14	Matthias Schwarzbacher	Slovakia	1:25
15	Mees Vlot	Netherlands	1:27
16	Dominik Dunár	Slovakia	1:31
17	Sente Sentjens	Belgium	1:32
18	Markel Beloki	Spain	1:36
19	Sjors Lugthart	Netherlands	1:44
20	Wil Holmes	Australia	1:46
21	Theodor Storm	Denmark	1:49
22	Arthur Blaise	France	1:57
23	Davide Donati	Italy	2:01
24	Hector Alvarez	Spain	2:02
25	Carl Emil Just Pedersen	Denmark	2:03
26	Dawid Wika-Czarnowski	Poland	2:05
27	Pavel Šumpík	Czech Republic	2:07
28	Maxime Decomble	France	2:09
29	Robinson Rincon	Colombia	2:10
30	Joshua Cranage	Australia	2:16
31	Filip Gruszczynski	Poland	2:17
32	Erazem Valjavec	Slovenia	2:23
33	Kryštof Král	Czech Republic	s.t.
34	Tamás Hancz	Hungary	2:26
35	Jaka Marolt	Slovenia	2:27
36	Noah Hollamby	New Zealand	2:29
37	David John Thompson	United States	2:56
38	Elliot Robertson	New Zealand	2:58
39	Kristupas Mikutis	Lithuania	2:59
40	Daniil Yakovlev	Ukraine	3:04
41	Manolo Wrolich	Austria	s.t.
42	Olivers Jekabs Skrapcis	Latvia	3:18
43	Daniil Shyrin	Ukraine	3:25
44	Victor Benareau	Switzerland	3:31
45	Lawrence Lorot	Uganda	3:32
46	Muhammad Syelhan Nurahmat	Indonesia	3:34
47	Ramazan Yilmaz	Turkey	3:39
48	Felipe Chan Hassan	Panama	3:43
49	Julian Abi Manyu	Indonesia	3:56
50	Konstantinos Berdempes	Greece	4:00
51	Jose Kleinsmit	South Africa	4:06
52	Ciro Perez	Uruguay	4:07
53	Carlos Montes De Oca	Cuba	4:15
54	Rodrigo Gabriel Alonso	Dominican Republic	4:24
55	Cian Hampton	Austria	4:34
56	Alexis Bouchard	Canada	4:46
57	Jonathan Morales	Mexico	4:47
58	Janvier Shyaka	Rwanda	4:56
59	Kevin Nshutiraguma	Rwanda	5:24
60	Nasrallah Mohamed Aissa Essemiani	Algeria	5:28
61	Ryno Schutte	South Africa	5:32
62	Andres Castro	Mexico	5:35
63	Felipe Emanuel Reyes	Uruguay	5:50
64	Kamya Richard Bukenya	Uganda	5:54
65	Degaga Jeno	Ethiopia	5:58
66	Alexander Ulcuango Gabriel	Ecuador	6:02
67	Serdar Gedik	Turkey	6:45
68	Qodirov Komron	Tajikistan	9:41
69	George Ascott	Zimbabwe	11:09
70	Drissa Bamba	Mali	11:24
71	Lovemore Ntini	Zimbabwe	12:54

 

Course map & profile:

Junior men's time trial map

Junior men's time trial profile

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Thursday, August 10: Elite Women 36.2 km Individual Time Trial

Course map & profile

Chloe Dygert racing to a gold medal. Getty Images

Les Woodland's book Paris-Roubaix: The Inside Story - All the bumps of cycling's cobbled classic 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 Stirling at 12:50 PM, local time: 22C (72F), cloudy, with the wind from the southeast at 5 mph (8 km/hr). There is a 7% chance of rain.

The race: After dominating the women's individual pursuit on the track, American rider Chloe Dygert has turned her attention to the Road and narrowly held out to win her second individual time trial world title.

Only Grace Brown (New Zealand) came close, but a strong surge at the end of her ride wasn't enough to unseat Dygert.

Feeling the effects from her crash in the team time trial, Swiss rider Marlen Reusser climbed off her bike mid-way through her ride. She sat down by the side of the road, eventually breaking into tears. What a shame, she was one of the favorites to win the race.

Here's the report from NBC Sports:

American Chloé Dygert won the world cycling championships road time trial, completing a comeback from a career-threatening crash in the same event three years ago.

“This is really special,” she said. “This means a lot for us. It’s just trusting the process and God’s plan.”

Dygert, a two-time Olympic medalist on the track, won the 22-mile time trial in Scotland by five seconds over Austrlian Grace Brown. The rest of the field was more than a minute back.

Dygert also provisionally qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic team, the only caveat being she stays in decent form through early next year.

Dygert, the 19th starter in the 86-rider field, covered the course in 46 minutes, 59.8 seconds.

She crossed the finish line coughing after a final climb over cobblestones. Dygert was not feeling well going into the ride.

“If the race was yesterday, I don’t think I would have started,” she said. “I spent the last four days praying to God that I’d be OK today. I’m still not 100 percent.”

She waited more than an hour for the rest of the field to finish, including all of the other favorites. Brown made up 19 seconds on Dygert in the last seven minutes.

Dygert also won the time trial at 2019 Worlds, a defining moment as she prevailed by the largest margin in history (92 seconds) and positioned herself as a Tokyo Olympic favorite.

Complete results:

36.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.229 km/hr

1	Chloe Dygert	United States	46min 59.8sec
2	Grace Brown	Australia	@ 6sec
3	Christina Schweinberger	Austria	1:13
4	Anna Henderson	Great Britain	1:15
5	Juliette Labous	France	1:22
6	Demi Vollering	Netherlands	1:28
7	Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka	Poland	1:38
8	Amber Neben	United States	1:52
9	Riejanne Markus	Netherlands	2:08
10	Georgie Howe	Australia	2:26
11	Antonia Niedermaier	Germany	2:27
12	Eugenia Bujak	Slovenia	2:29
13	Cédrine Kerbaol	France	2:35
14	Elizabeth Holden	Great Britain	2:45
15	Anna Kiesenhofer	Austria	2:54
16	Emma Norsgaard	Denmark	2:57
17	Julie De Wilde	Belgium	3:07
18	Mieke Kröger	Germany	s.t.
19	Olivia Baril	Canada	3:11
20	Georgia Williams	New Zealand	s.t.
21	Teniel Campbell	Trinidad & Tobago	3:13
22	Lauren Stephens	United States	3:27
23	Elena Hartmann	Switzerland	3:29
24	Alessia Vigilia	Italy	3:40
25	Paula Findlay	Canada	3:41
26	Olga Zabelinskaya	Uzbekistan	3:43
27	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig	Denmark	3:45
28	Valeriya Kononenko	Ukraine	s.t.
29	Urška Žigart	Slovenia	4:00
30	Kelly Murphy	Ireland	4:02
31	Dana Rožlapa	Latvia	4:08
32	Vittoria Guazzini	Italy	4:16
33	Georgia Perry	New Zealand	4:34
34	Anniina Ahtosalo	Finland	4:36
35	Marta Lach	Poland	4:40
36	Petra Zsankó	Hungary	4:42
37	Diana Peñuela	Colombia	4:44
38	Nora Jenčušová	Slovakia	5:00
39	Antri Christoforou	Cyprus	5:04
40	Eliška Kvasničková	Czech Republic	5:18
41	Agua Marina Espínola	Paraguay	5:30
42	Sandra Alonso	Spain	5:36
43	Sara Martín	Spain	5:41
44	Ella Wyllie	New Zealand	5:47
45	Caitlin Conyers	Bermuda	5:53
46	Febe Jooris	Belgium	5:54
47	Rotem Gafinovitz	Israel	5:57
48	Zanri Rossouw	South Africa	6:02
49	Nina Berton	Luxembourg	6:07
50	Kristýna Burlová	Czech Republic	6:15
51	Tetiana Yashchenko	Ukraine	6:19
52	Hafdís Sigurðardóttir	Iceland	6:23
53	Lotta Henttala	Finland	6:24
54	Catalina Anais Soto	Chile	6:34
55	Rinata Sultanova	Kazakhstan	6:42
56	Fernanda Anabel Yapura	Argentina	6:48
57	Siying Lu	China	6:57
58	Selam Amha Gerefiel	Ethiopia	s.t.
59	Aurelie Halbwachs	Mauritius	7:40
60	Diane Ingabire	Rwanda	7:42
61	Makhabbat Umutzhanova	Kazakhstan	8:24
62	Margarita Misyurina	Uzbekistan	8:25
63	Yuhang Cui	China	8:40
64	Annibel Emilia Prieto	Panama	8:55
65	Qianyu Yang	Hong Kong	9:10
66	Fariba Hashimi	Afghanistan	9:18
67	Yee Leung Wing	Hong Kong	9:23
68	Kristin Edda Sveinsdóttir	Iceland	9:42
69	Nesrine Houili	Algeria	10:07
70	Elena Petrova	North Macedonia	10:15
71	Skye Davidson	Zimbabwe	10:32
72	Luciana Roland	Argentina	10:47
73	Agustina Delia Priatna	Indonesia	10:56
74	Dunja Ivanova	North Macedonia	11:10
75	Abigail Sarabia	Bolivia	11:23
76	Awa Bamogo	Burkina Faso	12:44
77	Fanny Cauchois One	Laos	13:12
78	Julia Mirigu	Kenya	14:00
79	Grace Ayuba	Nigeria	16:46
80	Mary Samuel	Nigeria	17:27
81	Helen Mitchell	Zimbabwe	18:11
82	Florence Nakagwa	Uganda	18:49
83	Arefa Amini	Afghanistan	21:49
84	Masomah Ali Zada	Refugee Cycling Team	22:46
85	Olympia Maduro Fahie	British Virgin Islands	26:11

 

Course map & profile:

Elite Women's time trial map

Elite Women's time trial profile

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Thursday, August 10: Junior Women 13.4 km Individual Time Trial

Course map & profile

New junior women's world time trial champion Felicity Wilson-Haffenden on her way to a rainbow jersey.

Les Woodland's book Tour of Flanders: The Inside Story - The rocky roads of the Ronde van Vlaanderen is available in print, Kindle eBook and audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.

Weather at the start/finish city of Stirling at 12:50 PM, local time: 22C (72F), cloudy, with the wind from the southeast at 5 mph (8 km/hr). There is a 7% chance of rain.

The race: After crashing in the junior women's road race five days before (you can see the scars on her leg in the picture above) and finishing the road race almost 16 minutes down, Felicity Wilson-Haffenden blasted the time trial to win by more than a quarter-minute.

“It was pretty hard, pretty disappointing to crash on Saturday. I put a lot into that race,” Wilson-Haffenden was quoted by Cycling Weekly. “Personally, I felt like I let a lot of people down, because there was a lot of people who put so much time and money and energy into getting me here.

“It was just about trying to reset, and put that one behind me."

Complete results:

13.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.200 km/hr

1	Felicity Wilson-Haffenden	Australia	19min 31sec
2	Izzy Sharp	Great Britain	@ 16sec
3	Federica Venturelli	Italy	0:29
4	Lucy Benezet Minns	Ireland	0:36
5	Mackenzie Coupland	Australia	0:41
6	Hannah Kunz	Germany	0:49
7	Pia Grünewald	Germany	0:52
8	Fee Knaven	Netherlands	0:58
9	Julie Bego	France	1:00
10	Cat Ferguson	Great Britain	s.t.
11	Tabea Huys	Austria	1:01
12	Juliana Londoño	Colombia	1:02
13	Alberte Greve	Denmark	1:06
14	Nora Linton	Canada	1:10
15	Martyna Szczęsna	Poland	1:16
16	Célia Gery	France	1:27
17	Xaydee Van Sinaey	Belgium	s.t.
18	Alice Toniolli	Italy	1:31
19	Skaistė Mikašauskaitė	Lithuania	1:36
20	Barbara Cywińska	Poland	1:43
21	Mariana Londoño Angie	Colombia	1:45
22	Olympia Norrid-Mortensen	Denmark	1:46
23	Luca Vierstraete	Belgium	1:50
24	Éloïse Camiré	Canada	1:51
25	Zoë Van Velzen	Netherlands	1:53
26	Aline Epp	Switzerland	1:55
27	Kateřina Douděrová	Czech Republic	1:57
28	Ella Brenneman	United States	2:04
29	Maia Barclay	New Zealand	2:10
30	Samantha Scott	United States	s.t.
31	Ina Nakken	Norway	2:15
32	Nela Kaňkovská	Czech Republic	2:19
33	Aine Doherty	Ireland	s.t.
34	Maayan Tal	Israel	2:21
35	Yuliia Pchelintseva	Ukraine	2:28
36	Valeria Ponomarenko	Ukraine	2:45
37	Neža Zupanič	Slovenia	2:49
38	Anna Ržoncová	Slovakia	3:15
39	Muireann Green	New Zealand	3:22
40	Violeta Hernandez	Spain	3:30
41	Effiong Otuodung Patience	Nigeria	3:43
42	Maryam Ali	Pakistan	7:19

 

Course map & profile:

Junior women's course map

Junior women's course profile