![]() Very early on Patrick Gamper (Austria) and Rory Townsend (Ireland) attacked and were joined by several others, with USA’s Kevin Vermaerke, Owain Doull (Great Britain), Matthew Dinham (Australia), Ryan Christensen (New Zealand), Harold Tejada (Colombia), Krists Neilands (Latvia) and Petr Kelemen (Czech Republic) making it a nine-man breakaway. The first 120km of that took them from Edinburgh to Glasgow, where they would tackle ten laps of a very technical 14.3km circuit with a number of short, steep ramps such as Montrose Street ratcheting up the difficulty. The race featured 195 riders drawn from 58 different nations, and was 271.1km in length. There was drama from early on, with the race being halted for an hour due to protestors gluing themselves to the road.Īlso read: Men’s road race halted for almost one hour due to protests How it unfolded: Sunday’s race was wildly aggressive all day, with Van der Poel setting an average speed of 44kph over the 271km course. He will now look to Friday’s time trial for a second chance at another rainbow jersey. ![]() The 23-year-old finally lost the wheels 35km from the finish. #GlasgowScotland2023 /UgfkrZBQcuĭefending champion Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) was in the lead group through the first phase of the Glasgow circuits but seemed out of sorts on the twisting critérium-style course. He’s also racing for the Netherlands at the cross country mountain bike race on Saturday. The 28-year-old already scored his fifth ‘cross world title this February and lit up the spring with victories at Paris-Roubaix and Milan San Remo. Victory in Glasgow on Sunday adds another highlight to a blockbuster season for Van der Poel. Van der Pol’s archrival Van Aert jumped clear of the chase to finish second, with Pogačar nipping Pedersen at the line for third, a further 12 seconds back. ![]() The multi-discipline dominator became the first Dutchman to win elite worlds since Joop Zoetemelk in 1985, and adds this first road rainbow jersey of his career to the five striped tops he won in the winters of cyclocross. Van der Poel attacked 22km from the line and rode to his huge winning margin despite suffering a heavy crash on a wet corner that left him riding the final 16km with a damaged shoe. The Dutch ace crossed the line Sunday nearly two minutes ahead of a blockbuster chase group of Wout van Aert (Belgium), Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia), and Mads Pedersen (Denmark). Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) blew his rivals off his wheel, survived a late crash, and blazed to solo victory at the UCI Cycling World Championship road race. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! ![]()
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