Gall claims junior men's world title for Austria
Betouigt-Suire too late with bike throw, Pedersen third
Austria’s Felix Gall won the junior men’s road race at the World Championships after a late solo attack and strong finish to hold off chaser Clement Betouigt-Suire of France.
Britain’s Nathan Draper finished tenth at 13 seconds with, with the USA’s Adrien Costa –one of the most aggressive riders in the race, finishing 18th at 36 seconds. Both had been part of the front group that formed in the final two laps but were unable to go with the decisive attacks on the climbs in the final five kilometres of the circuit.
Crashes on the wet cobbles
The 130km, eight-lap race start in the rain, meaning the cobbled sectors and corners on Libby Hill and 23rd Street were slippery and potential crash locations. Numerous riders went down early on in the race. Some lost hope of performing well but others got up and rode on despite injuries.
Attacks kept the pace high early on but the first serious split and attack came after five laps. Costa was in it and it the group opened a gap of 30 seconds but the peloton was quickly all back together.
A more decisive developed came with just over two laps to go. Costa was again one of the driving forces and five riders opened a gap with several groups of chasers fighting to get across to them. A front group of 14 riders eventually formed, hearing the bell ringing out the last lap with a hand full of seconds on a chase group.
The race came back together on the flat roads of the circuit but then exploded in the final kilometres. Gall made his move before Libby Hill and took the best line in the gutter on the cobbled climb. He kept his lead over the top and on 23rd St but faded in the final kilometres and the climb up to the finish.
Betouigt-Suire and Rasmussen managed to distance the other chasers and close on Gall on the long finishing straight. However the Frenchman made the fatal error of worrying about Rasmussen rather than focusing on beating Gall, allowing the Austrian to win the world title and pull on the rainbow jersey.
Full Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Felix Gall (Austria) | 3:11:09 |
2 | Clement Betouigt-Suire (France) | Row 1 - Cell 2 |
3 | Rasmus Pedersen (Denmark) | 0:00:01 |
4 | Reto Muller (Switzerland) | 0:00:10 |
5 | Martin Salomon (Germany) | Row 4 - Cell 2 |
6 | Nicola Conci (Italy) | Row 5 - Cell 2 |
7 | Mathias Norsgaard (Denmark) | 0:00:13 |
8 | Nathan Draper (Great Britain) | Row 7 - Cell 2 |
9 | Marc Hirschi (Switzerland) | Row 8 - Cell 2 |
10 | Pit Leyder (Luxembourg) | 0:00:20 |
11 | Thomas Vereecken (Belgium) | 0:00:21 |
12 | Alexys Brunel (France) | 0:00:23 |
13 | Anthon Charmig (Denmark) | 0:00:26 |
14 | Max Kanter (Germany) | 0:00:36 |
15 | Matteo Sobrero (Italy) | Row 14 - Cell 2 |
16 | Michael Storer (Australia) | Row 15 - Cell 2 |
17 | Gino Mader (Switzerland) | Row 16 - Cell 2 |
18 | Adrien Costa (United States of America) | Row 17 - Cell 2 |
19 | Joey Walker (Great Britain) | Row 18 - Cell 2 |
20 | Kevin Geniets (Luxembourg) | Row 19 - Cell 2 |
21 | Jaka Primozic (Slovenia) | 0:00:39 |
22 | Bjorg Lambrecht (Belgium) | 0:00:45 |
23 | Tanguy Turgis (France) | Row 22 - Cell 2 |
24 | Nils Eekhoff (Netherlands) | Row 23 - Cell 2 |
25 | Marcel Neuhauser (Austria) | Row 24 - Cell 2 |
26 | Vadim Pronskiy (Kazakhstan) | Row 25 - Cell 2 |
27 | Keagan Girdlestone (South Africa) | Row 26 - Cell 2 |
28 | Leo Appelt (Germany) | Row 27 - Cell 2 |
29 | Dusan Rajovic (Serbia) | Row 28 - Cell 2 |
30 | Patrick Haller (Germany) | Row 29 - Cell 2 |
31 | Alexandr Kulikovskiy (Russian Federation) | Row 30 - Cell 2 |
32 | Mario Spengler (Switzerland) | Row 31 - Cell 2 |
33 | Andre Carvalho (Portugal) | Row 32 - Cell 2 |
34 | Kristo Enn Vaga (Estonia) | Row 33 - Cell 2 |
35 | Robin Froidevaux (Switzerland) | Row 34 - Cell 2 |
36 | Markus Wildauer (Austria) | 0:00:54 |
37 | Jasper Philipsen (Belgium) | Row 36 - Cell 2 |
38 | Luis Villalobos (Mexico) | 0:00:58 |
39 | Dennis Van Der Horst (Netherlands) | 0:01:00 |
40 | Stefan Bissegger (Switzerland) | Row 39 - Cell 2 |
41 | Michael O'loughlin (Ireland) | 0:01:04 |
42 | Gorazd Per (Slovenia) | 0:01:07 |
43 | Karl Patrick Lauk (Estonia) | 0:01:09 |
44 | Alejandro Gomiz (Spain) | 0:01:12 |
45 | Derek Gee (Canada) | Row 44 - Cell 2 |
46 | Luc Wirtgen (Luxembourg) | Row 45 - Cell 2 |
47 | Jakub Otruba (Czech Republic) | Row 46 - Cell 2 |
48 | Jhonnatan Manuel Narvaez Prado (Ecuador) | Row 47 - Cell 2 |
49 | Robbe Ghys (Belgium) | Row 48 - Cell 2 |
50 | Max Singer (Germany) | Row 49 - Cell 2 |
51 | Jorge Magalhaes (Portugal) | Row 50 - Cell 2 |
52 | Pascal Eenkhoorn (Netherlands) | Row 51 - Cell 2 |
53 | Georg Zimmerman (Germany) | Row 52 - Cell 2 |
54 | Samuel Jenner (Australia) | 0:01:19 |
55 | Marco Friedrich (Austria) | 0:01:25 |
56 | Bram Welten (Netherlands) | 0:01:27 |
57 | Theo Menant (France) | 0:01:33 |
58 | Alejandro Regueiro Perez (Spain) | Row 57 - Cell 2 |
59 | Alan Banaszek (Poland) | 0:01:40 |
60 | Sergey Rostovtsev (Russian Federation) | Row 59 - Cell 2 |
61 | Riccardo Verza (Italy) | Row 60 - Cell 2 |
62 | Christopher Blevins (United States of America) | 0:02:05 |
63 | Niklas Larsen (Denmark) | Row 62 - Cell 2 |
64 | Louis Louvet (France) | 0:02:12 |
65 | Aleksander Borisov (Russian Federation) | 0:02:18 |
66 | Robert Stannard (New Zealand) | 0:02:30 |
67 | Pablo Alonso (Spain) | 0:02:38 |
68 | Stan Dewulf (Belgium) | 0:03:04 |
69 | Patrick Gamper (Austria) | 0:03:16 |
70 | Masahiro Ishigami (Japan) | 0:03:18 |
71 | Daniel Savini (Italy) | 0:03:25 |
72 | Tommaso Fiaschi (Italy) | Row 71 - Cell 2 |
73 | Willem Boersma (Canada) | 0:03:29 |
74 | Marten Kooistra (Netherlands) | 0:03:32 |
75 | Szymon Sajnok (Poland) | 0:03:34 |
76 | Aaron Verwilst (Belgium) | Row 75 - Cell 2 |
77 | Torjus Sleen (Norway) | 0:03:39 |
78 | Hans Kristian Rudland (Norway) | Row 77 - Cell 2 |
79 | Lars Saugstad (Norway) | 0:04:29 |
80 | Petter Fagerhaug (Norway) | Row 79 - Cell 2 |
81 | Simm Kiskonen (Estonia) | 0:05:17 |
82 | David Gabor D. Kovacs (Hungry) | Row 81 - Cell 2 |
83 | Tobias Foss (Norway) | 0:05:26 |
84 | Samuel Oros (Slovakia) | 0:06:07 |
85 | Martin Spudil (Czech Republic) | 0:06:33 |
86 | Vitor Schizzi (Brazil) | 0:06:51 |
87 | Julian Cardona (Colombia) | 0:06:52 |
88 | Jack Maddux (United States of America) | 0:07:16 |
89 | Adam Stenson (Ireland) | 0:07:25 |
90 | Vincent Andersson (Sweden) | 0:07:33 |
91 | Tiago Da Silva (Luxembourg) | 0:11:43 |
92 | Mehdi Chokri El (Morocco) | 0:12:30 |
93 | Keitaro Sawada (Japan) | Row 92 - Cell 2 |
94 | Barnabas Peak (Hungry) | 0:15:59 |
95 | Adrian Bustamante (Colombia) | 0:16:01 |
96 | Javier Montoya (Colombia) | Row 95 - Cell 2 |
97 | Itamar Einhorn (Israel) | 0:16:08 |
98 | Adrian Foltan (Slovakia) | 0:16:19 |
99 | Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev (Kazakhstan) | 0:16:32 |
100 | Erik Sierra (Ecuador) | 0:16:33 |
101 | Melvin Daniel Boron Rabinal (Guatemala) | Row 100 - Cell 2 |
102 | Mohcine El Kouraji (Morocco) | Row 101 - Cell 2 |
103 | Oussama Mansouri (Algeria) | 0:16:36 |
104 | Joel Taylor (Canada) | 0:16:48 |
105 | Erik Sandersson (Sweden) | 0:17:09 |
106 | Daniel Viegas (Portugal) | 0:18:14 |
107 | Joao Almeida (Portugal) | Row 106 - Cell 2 |
108 | Antonio Barac (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | 0:19:08 |
109 | Patompob Phonarjthan (Thailand) | 0:19:18 |
110 | Ethan Reynolds (United States of America) | 0:19:41 |
111 | Jonathan Brown (United States of America) | Row 110 - Cell 2 |
112 | Jake Gray (Ireland) | Row 111 - Cell 2 |
113 | Yuttana Mano (Thailand) | Row 112 - Cell 2 |
114 | Islam Mansouri (Algeria) | 0:21:04 |
DNF | Nicolas Nesi (Italy) | Row 114 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Denis Nekrasov (Russian Federation) | Row 115 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Brandon Mcnulty (United States of America) | Row 116 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Simon Tuomey (Ireland) | Row 117 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Nikita Sokolov (Kazakhstan) | Row 118 - Cell 2 |
DNF | James Fouche (New Zealand) | Row 119 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Amine Belabessi (Algeria) | Row 120 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Alexandros Agrotis (Cyprus) | Row 121 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Bryan Mendoza (El Salvador) | Row 122 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Fredy Orlando Toc Xon (Guatemala) | Row 123 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Joe Holt (Great Britain) | Row 124 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Saar Hershler (Israel) | Row 125 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Adam Roberge (Canada) | Row 126 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Nikolay Ilichev (Russian Federation) | Row 127 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Andreas Stokbro (Denmark) | Row 128 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia) | Row 129 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Michal Brazda (Czech Republic) | Row 130 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Norbert Banaszek (Poland) | Row 131 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Juraj Michalicka (Slovakia) | Row 132 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Kanan Gahramanli (Azerbaijan) | Row 133 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Gustaf Andersson (Sweden) | Row 134 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Dmitriy Ponkratov (Uzbekistan) | Row 135 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Tarlan Mammadov (Azerbaijan) | Row 136 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Gunyaidin Khaji Dursun Ogly (Kazakhstan) | Row 137 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Kotaro Ono (Japan) | Row 138 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Santiago Yeri Mingo (Argentina) | Row 139 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ilya Gorbushin (Kazakhstan) | Row 140 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Kyle De Wet (South Africa) | Row 141 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ayumu Watanabe (Japan) | Row 142 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Jarno Mobach (Netherlands) | Row 143 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Bryan Portilla (Ecuador) | Row 144 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Jarrod Hattingh (South Africa) | Row 145 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Erik Relanto (Finland) | Row 146 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Damian Slawek (Poland) | Row 147 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Dawid Gieracki (Poland) | Row 148 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Marcio Oliveira Filho (Brazil) | Row 149 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Tegsh-Bayar Batsaikhan (Mongolia) | Row 150 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Mario Rojas (Costa Rica) | Row 151 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Pavel Sivakov (Russian Federation) | Row 152 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Mathieu Burgaudeau (France) | Row 153 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Eriks Toms Gavars (Latvia) | Row 154 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Darragh O'mahoney (Ireland) | Row 155 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Pedro Martins (Brazil) | Row 156 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Harry Sweeny (Australia) | Row 157 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ahulee Rivera (Puerto Rico) | Row 158 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Merrill Jern-E Chua (Singapore) | Row 159 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ziga Jerman (Slovenia) | Row 160 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Sam Dobbs (New Zealand) | Row 161 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Michel Ries (Luxembourg) | Row 162 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Musa Mikayilzade (Azerbaijan) | Row 163 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Jaakko Hanninen (Finland) | Row 164 - Cell 2 |
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