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Within the ladies’s occasion somewhat earlier, the Australian Grace Brown backed up her Olympic title with a world title, making for a fairytale finish to her profession.
The organisers have clearly selected a special schedule to the one they issued upfront of the race and that is nonetheless listed on their web site. The order is identical however they’re beginning nearer collectively than the two-and-a-half minutes initially listed.
Filip Maciejuk (Poland) units off as the primary WorldTour rider down the ramp, the 25-year-old racing with Bora-Hansgrohe.
Kagimu hits the highest of the climb and the second checkpoint after 26.6km with a time of 36:30.48.
Cory Williams (Belize), one half of the Williams brothers behind the L39ION of Los Angeles crew, hits the street now.
Pier-Andre Cote of Canada has simply taken one other 30 seconds off the benchmark at that first checkpoint.
Hungary’s Janos Zsombor Pelikan is now the quickest via the primary checkpoint, with 15:22.
Emil Stoynev (Bulgaria) is the primary European on the course. He is 40 seconds down on Kagimu on the first checkpoint.
Kagimu’s time on the first checkpoint is below no menace to date. Wais is 55 seconds slower in second place with Qatar’s Tamim Al-Kuwari and Afghanistan’s Ahmad Mirzaee each greater than two minutes down.
We’ve got three intermediate checkpoints on this course, the primary coming after 12.5km, which Kagimu has simply gone via in a time of 15:30.
I keep in mind talking to Symonds on the 2021 Worlds in Bruges, and have simply dug out the piece, if his story is of curiosity…
Ghana’s Christopher Symonds is among the many early starters and is a well-known determine from earlier World Championships. He lives in London and works on the doorways of the Homes of Parliament, and is racing right here on the age of fifty.
Ahmad Badreddin Wais of the Refugee Biking Group is the second rider off. A couple of years in the past on the Olympics he was one of many riders out in entrance of a German rider whose coach yelled at him to “catch the camel drivers”. A disgraceful episode, when the varied begin lists are an endearing issue of those worldwide competitions and one to be celebrated.
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Evenepoel headlines the present, because the 2023 champ and the recently-crowned Olympic champ. One other victory right here would improve the Belgian’s ever-expanding palmares.
Uganda’s Charles Kagimu would be the first rider down the ramp, at 14:52 native time (CET). Many of the gold medal favourites are beginning late, final of all being the 2023 champion, Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) at 16:34.
It is best to be capable of see the course map and profile on the prime of your screens. It is a strong distance of 46.1km with a complete elevation achieve of 413 metres, which signifies that climb previous the half-way mark bites somewhat greater than it could seem on paper. The climb hyperlinks two lakes, with a lot of the course hugging shorelines, the ultimate 12km heading again into city alongside Lake Zurich. There’s some cornering and descending to be finished, which, together with the uphill sections and the longer durations on the flat, makes for a well-rounded time trialling check.
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