Durbridge wins gold in World Championships
USA's Craddock second
Australia's Luke Durbridge won Australia's first medal at the Junior Road World Championships in Moscow, Russia, Friday. Durbridge, 18, won the Under 19 time trial ahead of USA's Lawson Craddock and Denmark's Lasse Hansen.
"I'm absolutely stoked and I just can't take it in at the moment," said Durbridge. "I headed out really quickly and was fastest in the first lap and then I died a little bit in the last lap but I managed to hold onto it."
He won the 25.8-kilometre race, two circuits, in a time of 32'52" and an average speed of 47. Craddock was two seconds slower and Hansen 10 seconds slower.
"This course had lots of gradual climbs and I could use the big gear and my power to get up them. My track work preparation meant I could use high cadence on the downhills so that helped me a fair bit as well but the course was rather flat."
Craddock, from Texas, won the silver medal. The only other Team USA rider, Nathan Brown, finished was 34th.
| 1 | Luke Durbridge (Australia) | 0:32:52 |
| 2 | Lawson Craddock (United States Of America) | 0:00:02 |
| 3 | Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark) | 0:00:11 |
| 4 | Nikias Arndt (Germany) | 0:00:18 |
| 5 | Kevin Labeque (France) | 0:00:23 |
| 6 | Kevin De Jonghe (Belgium) | 0:00:36 |
| 7 | Michel Koch (Germany) | 0:00:39 |
| 8 | Lukasz Wisniowski (Poland) | 0:00:43 |
| 9 | Alexander Randin (Norway) | 0:00:46 |
| 10 | Matvey Zubov (Russian Federation) | 0:00:48 |
| 11 | Victor Manakov (Russian Federation) | 0:00:49 |
| 12 | Konrad Tomasiak (Poland) | 0:00:51 |
| 13 | Romain Delalot (France) | 0:00:56 |
| 14 | Andreas Hofer (Austria) | 0:01:00 |
| 15 | Antoine Duchesne (Canada) | 0:01:01 |
| 16 | Jaramillo Daniel Alexander (Colombia) | 0:01:06 |
| 17 | Daniil Fominykh (Kazakhstan) | 0:01:08 |
| 18 | Armands Becis (Latvia) | 0:01:13 |
| 19 | Bob Jungels (Luxembourg) | 0:01:15 |
| 20 | Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands) | 0:01:15 |
| 21 | Rafael Ferreira Reis (Portugal) | 0:01:17 |
| 22 | Tobias Ludvigsson (Sweden) | 0:01:21 |
| 23 | Michael Valgren Andersen (Denmark) | 0:01:22 |
| 24 | Kanstantsin Khviyuzau (Belarus) | 0:01:25 |
| 25 | Zoltan Sipos (Romania) | 0:01:31 |
| 26 | Jordan Kerby (Australia) | 0:01:31 |
| 27 | Andriy Orlov (Ukraine) | 0:01:35 |
| 28 | Stuart Wight (Canada) | 0:01:38 |
| 29 | Dylan Van Baarle (Netherlands) | 0:01:41 |
| 30 | Dronin Dronin Roman (Uzbekistan) | 0:01:43 |
| 31 | Andrea Dal Col (Italy) | 0:01:45 |
| 32 | Alex Kirsch (Luxembourg) | 0:01:47 |
| 33 | Ilia Koshevoy (Belarus) | 0:01:48 |
| 34 | Nathan Brown (United States Of America) | 0:01:50 |
| 35 | Jan Kadúch (Czech Republic) | 0:01:54 |
| 36 | Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Belgium) | 0:01:58 |
| 37 | Toms Skujins (Latvia) | 0:02:00 |
| 38 | Gregory Hugentobler (Switzerland) | 0:02:08 |
| 39 | Jan Keller (Switzerland) | 0:02:16 |
| 40 | Johann Van Zyl (South Africa) | 0:02:23 |
| 41 | Rodolfo Ivan Ficachi Garcia (Mexico) | 0:02:31 |
| 42 | Denis Shaimanov (Uzbekistan) | 0:02:32 |
| 43 | Eimantas Gudiskis (Lithuania) | 0:02:41 |
| 44 | Ivan Tsissaruk (Kazakhstan) | 0:02:44 |
| 45 | King Lok Cheung (Hong Kong, China) | 0:02:45 |
| 46 | Juan Carlos Riutort Martinez (Spain) | 0:02:54 |
| 47 | Pavel Gorenc (Slovenia) | 0:02:56 |
| 48 | Jan Polanc (Slovenia) | 0:03:01 |
| 49 | Athanasios Amoutzias (Greece) | 0:03:10 |
| 50 | Aaron Donnelly (Australia) | 0:03:12 |
| 51 | Sten Sarv (Estonia) | 0:03:21 |
| 52 | Javier Eduardo Gomez Pineda (Colombia) | 0:03:22 |
| 53 | Eduardo Winters (Brazil) | 0:03:31 |
| 54 | Murilo Afonso (Brazil) | 0:03:43 |
| 55 | Veaceslav Stolearenco (Republic of Moldova) | 0:03:50 |
| 56 | Oleksandr Golovash (Ukraine) | 0:04:01 |
| 57 | Rene Corella (Mexico) | 0:04:02 |
| 58 | Nikola Kozomara (Siberia) | 0:04:47 |
| 59 | Veaceslav Colotenco (Republic of Moldova) | 0:04:52 |
| 60 | Panagiotis Chionis (Greece) | 0:05:16 |
| 61 | Ahmad Badreddin Wais (Syrian Arab Republic) | 0:05:30 |
| 62 | Rasim Reis (Turkey) | 0:06:51 |
| 63 | Mohammad Abdul Baset (Syrian Arab Republic) | 0:08:05 |
| DNF | Adil Kurkut (Turkey) | Row 63 - Cell 2 |
| DNF | Aram Melikyan (Armenia) | Row 64 - Cell 2 |
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