After winning the title in the road race last year, Remco Evenepoel (23) won the individual time trial of the World Championships around Stirling, north-east of Glasgow (Scotland) on Friday. Silver medalist in 2019 and bronze in 2021 and 2022, he becomes the first Belgian to win the title in the timed event.
Close to winning a third world title in the time trial after his victories in 2020 and 2021, the Italian Filippo Ganna has to settle for second place (+ 12 seconds). The British nugget Joshua Tarling completes the podium (+ 48 seconds), at only 19 years old.
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Remco Evenepoel is the second rider to win both the road race and the time trial after Abraham Olano (in 1995 and 1998). The time trial has been on the program of the Worlds since 1994.
Disappointment for Wout Van Aert
Vice-world champion in 2020 and 2021, Wout Van Aert was announced among the favorites, after his second place in the road race last Sunday. Only 6th in the first intermediate, while the other title contenders had not yet passed, he finished strong in the 800m cobbled climb concluding the course to clinch 5th place, more than 1’30” from his compatriot.
