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Annemiek Van Vleuten wins UCI Road Race World Championship

02 October 2019

Yorkshire, Great Britain, September 2019. Annemiek Van Vleuten wins debut UCI Road Race World Champion title after an incredible solo attack at the bottom of the climb and over 100 kilometers from the finish. The 2x Time Trial World Champion from the Netherlands held off the chasing pack to take gold, ahead of Mitchelton-SCOTT teammate, Amanda Spratt from Australia, earning bronze.

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Van Vleuten made her move with 105-kilometers left to go on the lower hills of Lofthouse. She moved to the lead of the already thinning pack and upped the pace. The surge was too much for her rivals as they dropped away and Van Vleuten was soon clear of the field with a lead of nearly one minute over the top of the summit.

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Mitchelton-SCOTT teammate, Spratt formed part of the chase group which struggled to work together allowing Van Vleuten to stretch her lead. At one point the chasers got within 45-seconds of bridging across, but as they reach the finishing circuit in Harrogate, the gap stood at two-minutes. Van Vleuten pulled off the unthinkable and earned her rainbow jersey in awe and style.

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“It was a 100-kilometer time trial. It was crazy plan, it actually was not planned. I wanted to go hard on the climb. Then I had a gap…and my coach said just continue now, so it was a crazy plan.”

Annemiek Van Vleuten
2019 Road World Champion
Mitchelton-SCOTT Team

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Van Vleuten took home bronze in Yorkshire for the World Time Trial Championship. The two-time defending champ was looking to make it a hat-trick but the less than ideal continues and a charging Chloe Gygert (USA) denied such luck.

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Italian Matteo Trentin finished second on his SCOTT Addict RC at the UCI Road Race World Championship after brutal day in the saddle in Yorkshire

The 2018 European champion made it into a select group in the closing laps around the Harrogate finishing circuit, but he couldn’t hold off Mads Pedersen in the sprint for the line. Torrential rain forced the race organizers to shorten and reroute the course, with the climbs of Buttertubs and Grinton Moor removed, and two extra laps of the finishing circuit added to the day.

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The race burst into life behind as pre-race favorite Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) attacked with 34-kilometres to go. Trentin jumped straight onto the Dutchman’s wheel and the duo upped the pace, leaving the shrinking bunch behind. The duo eventually made it across to the earlier attackers to form a five-man group, with Gianni Moscon (Italy) there to aid his teammate Trentin. In the final sprint Trentin was the first to kick for the line, but the Italian couldn’t hold off Pedersen as the Dane came around him to take the gold medal.

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“I wanted the rainbow jersey. If you are then second, you will be disappointed. But when you see how Mads wins the sprint, you know he was the best today. This was a very tough course. I'm still cold. This feels like I'm out in the winter in my t-shirt. I have nothing to blame…I am proud of myself and the team."

Photography: Kramon

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