Toby Perry on his strategy to victory at Gravel Grit ‘n Grind, UCI Gravel World Collection spherical in Halmstad, Sweden 2024(Picture credit score: Chris Lanaway / Gravel Grit ‘n Grind)
Begin of Gravel Grit ‘n Grind(Picture credit score: Chris Lanaway / Gravel Grit ‘n Grind)
Femke Markus (SD Worx-Protime) at Gravel Grit ‘n Grind(Picture credit score: Chris Lanaway / Gravel Grit ‘n Grind)
Elite males’s podium of Tobias Perry in first, Tijmen Eising second and Jasper Ockeloen(Picture credit score: Chris Lanaway / Gravel Grit ‘n Grind)
Elite ladies’s podium of Femke Markus in first, Heidi Franz in second and Klara Sofie Skovgard Hansen in third(Picture credit score: Chris Lanaway / Gravel Grit ‘n Grind)
Femke Markus (SD Worx-Protime) charged from a four-rider dash to win the ladies’s Class of Gravel Grit ‘n Grind in Sweden, a part of the Trek UCI Gravel World Collection. British rider Toby Perry (Categorized Ridley Manufacturing facility Crew) flew solo to win the boys’s race.
Markus emerged from the entrance of the ladies’s lead pack within the finale simply three seconds forward of Heidi Franz (Lifeplus-Wahoo), with a successful time of 4:30:28. Klara Sofie Skovgård Hansen (PAS Racing) took third forward of 2024 Unbound Gravel 200 winner Rosa Klöser (MAAP x Rose).
The 24-year-old Perry earned a stable win with a 2-minute margin to his nearest rivals, ending in 3:53:38. From a pack of 10 riders within the lead chase group, Tijmen Eising (BEAT Biking) sprinted forward of jasper Ockeloen (Sockeloen.com) for second place. Ending behind the pack in eleventh was Mattia De Marchi (sufficient biking collective).
A full three days of racing on the Swedish occasion included a time trial and two gravel phases, with stage 2 outcomes counting as a qualifier for the UCI Gravel World Championships.
The 136km qualifier course, positioned simply outdoors Halmstad in Sweden, included a mixture of wide-open gravel roads with quick however steep climbs that added as much as 1,800 metres of climbing. After a begin within the backcountry on gravel roads, the village Torup marked the half-way level with the steepest climb. Then it was onto a collection of difficult forest tracks and the ultimate stretch on technical, rocky sections again to Halmstad.
Different notable riders within the discipline for the ladies had been Morgan Aguirre (Sufficient Biking), who completed seventh and Danni Shrosbree (FELT UN1TED), who was sixteenth. Within the males’s discipline, Conor White (Austin Outlaws) completed twenty second, Niki Terpstra (Pace on Wheels Racing) completed twenty fifth, Ted King (iamtedking.com) got here in thirty fourth and the silver medallist from Cyclocross World Championships Joris Nieuwenhuis, who received the time trial, was 67th.
Perry additionally received stage 3 on the boys’s facet, whereas Markus swept all three phases for the ladies.
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Elite males’s high 5
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Toby Perry (Categorized Ridley Manufacturing facility)
