The new world champion will be crowned in Glasgow on Sunday. As with every World Cup, it rains estimates and predictions about the course and the favourites, but perhaps the 2018 European Championship is a good indicator of what will or can happen in Scotland on Sunday. Matteo Trentin then won the European title on a similar course.
Matteo Trentin is not a winner. The Italian, 34 years old in the meantime, has already won stages in the 3 Grand Tours, but in the Flemish work he was never able to translate his ambitions into high-profile results.
And yet you always run into Trentin at a championship. Especially if there is a British link. Even more so if the weather doesn’t invite you to hurt your legs for a day.
At the rain-soaked 2019 World Cup in Yorkshire, Trentin missed the chance of his life for the world title and came 2nd to Mads Pedersen.
A year earlier, Trentin had hit the mark. At the European Championships in Glasgow, he raced to the European star jersey.
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“It’s like a cyclocross,” said Mathieu van der Poel
The European Championship on the road was only revived in 2016 after a long silence and was not immediately a priority for many top riders.
Glasgow was the setting for the third edition in 2018 on August 12. The Belgian team colored the final under the impulse of Xandro Meurisse in particular.
Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel, among others, hooked up their wagon. At that time they did not yet have the reputation on the road that they have today, let alone the track record.
After a fall in the final, the five of them rode away and Trentin, an ex-cross racer himself, floored the 2 cyclo-cross riders. Van der Poel took silver, Van Aert bronze.
1 million turns, wet, up and down all day,… The 2 cyclocross riders were also the men to keep an eye on. I beat them both.
Matteo Trentin in 2018 after his European title
“We knew it would be tough, the rain didn’t help, of course. Van der Poel said to me before the start: “It’s exactly a cyclocross here,” Trentin said afterwards about the flooded European Championship.
“1 million turns, wet, up and down all day,… The 2 cyclo-cross riders were also the men to keep an eye on. I beat them both, so that’s good.”
They will all start again on Sunday. However, relations have completely changed in recent years.
European Championship road race result: 1. Matteo Trentin (Ita) 230 km in 5h50’02” 2. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) same time 3. Wout van Aert 4. Jesus Herrada (Spa) 5. Davide Cimolai (Ita) 6. Xandro Meurisse at 7″ 7. Michael Albasini (Zwi) zt 8. Pierre Luc Périchon (Fra) 9. Nico Denz (Ger) 25″ 10. Maurits Lammertink (Ned) 2’15” 11. Alexander Kristoff (Noo) 2′ 22″ 12. Jasper Stuyven st 13. Rick Zabel (Ger) 14. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) 15. Luke Rowe (GBr) 25. Greg Van Avermaet 2’32” 33. Jelle Wallays st 47. Tosh Van der Sande 4′ 54″ program and results World Cycling Championships 2023 date race distance start time winner report Saturday 5 August road race junior women 70 km 11.00 am road race junior men 127.2 km 2.00 pm Sunday 6 August road race elite men 271 km 10.30 am Tuesday 8 August mixed relay team time trial 40 .3 km 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 9, time trial U23 men 36.2 km, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, August 10, time trial junior women 13.4 km, 12:15 p.m. Time trial elite women, 36.2 km 3:00 p.m. time trial elite men 47.8 km 3.35 pm Saturday 12 August road race U23 men 168.4 km 12.30 pm Sunday 13 August road race U23 women 154.1 km 1.00 pm road race elite women 154.1 km 1.00 pm
2023-08-03 08:00:04
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