Worlds: Mohoric wins junior men's road race
Slovenian rider beats Ewan and Rumac
Matej Mohoric of Slovenia won the Junior men’s world road race title with a perfect-timed attack over the top of the Cauberg.
He has dominated junior racing this year and had the strength and speed to attack with one kilometre to go and hold off the chasing peloton. Caleb Ewan (Australia) won the sprint for second place, with Josip Rumac (Croatia) taking the bronze medal.
The race was a constant battle, with attacks going off the front and then being pulled back following frantic chases. A move of 11 riders gained 20 seconds with two laps to go but was then quickly chased down. Another move of 12 riders surged away but yet again they were pulled back as the last lap started.
A sprint finish was expected but after the final climb of the Cauberg, Mohoric attacked hard. Ewan, Rumac and Italy’s Federico Zurlo tried to go after him but the big Slovenian managed hold off everyone and win the world title.
“I couldn’t believe that I’d won. The course is harder than it looks and there was also a headwind at the top of the Cauberg, that’s why the race finished with a virtual sprint,” Mohoric said.
“I’m not a real sprinter but didn’t want to go on the attack on the last climb because I thought it was too early. I waited until the one kilometre to go kite and then went for it and managed to hold off the peloton.”
Rumac went close to victory but was happy to have secured the bronze medal.
“The world championships were my main goal this year, so I'm disappointed to have missed out on the win but I have no reason to be unhappy,” he said.
1 | Matej Mohoric (Slovenia) | 3:00:45 |
2 | Caleb Ewan (Australia) | Row 1 - Cell 2 |
3 | Josip Rumac (Croatia) | Row 2 - Cell 2 |
4 | Federico Zurlo (Italy) | Row 3 - Cell 2 |
5 | Jonathan Dibben (Great Britain) | Row 4 - Cell 2 |
6 | Kevin Deltombe (Belgium) | Row 5 - Cell 2 |
7 | Thomas Boudat (France) | Row 6 - Cell 2 |
8 | Tom Bohli (Switzerland) | Row 7 - Cell 2 |
9 | Mathieu Van Der Poel (Netherlands) | Row 8 - Cell 2 |
10 | Søren Kragh Andersen (Denmark) | Row 9 - Cell 2 |
11 | Fridtjof Røinås (Norway) | Row 10 - Cell 2 |
12 | Tiesj Benoot (Belgium) | Row 11 - Cell 2 |
13 | Phil Bauhaus (Germany) | Row 12 - Cell 2 |
14 | Tom Vessey (New Zealand) | Row 13 - Cell 2 |
15 | Giacomo Peroni (Italy) | Row 14 - Cell 2 |
16 | Alexandre Darville (United States of America) | Row 15 - Cell 2 |
17 | Lukas Spengler (Switzerland) | Row 16 - Cell 2 |
18 | Dries Van Gestel (Belgium) | Row 17 - Cell 2 |
19 | Przemyslaw Kasperkiewicz (Poland) | Row 18 - Cell 2 |
20 | Piotr Havik (Netherlands) | Row 19 - Cell 2 |
21 | Tao Geoghegan Hart (Great Britain) | Row 20 - Cell 2 |
22 | Lubos Malovec (Slovakia) | Row 21 - Cell 2 |
23 | Hiroki Nishimura (Japan) | Row 22 - Cell 2 |
24 | Milos Borisavljevic (Serbia) | Row 23 - Cell 2 |
25 | Merijn Korevaar (Netherlands) | Row 24 - Cell 2 |
26 | Arne Egner (Germany) | Row 25 - Cell 2 |
27 | Bradley Linfield (Australia) | Row 26 - Cell 2 |
28 | Vitaliy Marukhin (Kazakhstan) | Row 27 - Cell 2 |
29 | Silvio Herklotz (Germany) | Row 28 - Cell 2 |
30 | Kolya Shumov (Belarus) | Row 29 - Cell 2 |
31 | Oliviero Troia (Italy) | Row 30 - Cell 2 |
32 | Markus Hoelgaard (Norway) | Row 31 - Cell 2 |
33 | Alex Peters (Great Britain) | Row 32 - Cell 2 |
34 | Enric Mas Nicolau (Spain) | Row 33 - Cell 2 |
35 | Jenthe Biermans (Belgium) | Row 34 - Cell 2 |
36 | Germain Burton (Great Britain) | Row 35 - Cell 2 |
37 | Benjamin Perry (Canada) | Row 36 - Cell 2 |
38 | Oskar Nisu (Estonia) | Row 37 - Cell 2 |
39 | Tobias Derler (Austria) | Row 38 - Cell 2 |
40 | Roman Lutsyshyn (Ukraine) | Row 39 - Cell 2 |
41 | Dennis Paulus (Austria) | Row 40 - Cell 2 |
42 | Lennard Hofstede (Netherlands) | Row 41 - Cell 2 |
43 | Jan Brockhoff (Germany) | Row 42 - Cell 2 |
44 | Anatoliy Budiak (Ukraine) | Row 43 - Cell 2 |
45 | Felix Pouilly (France) | Row 44 - Cell 2 |
46 | Quentin Jauregui (France) | Row 45 - Cell 2 |
47 | Ildar Arslanov (Russian Federation) | Row 46 - Cell 2 |
48 | Yuri Kobashi (Japan) | Row 47 - Cell 2 |
49 | Jure Miskulin (Slovenia) | Row 48 - Cell 2 |
50 | Anthony Turgis (France) | Row 49 - Cell 2 |
51 | Dylan Kowalski (France) | Row 50 - Cell 2 |
52 | Alexey Vermeulen (United States of America) | Row 51 - Cell 2 |
53 | Sean Hambrook (New Zealand) | Row 52 - Cell 2 |
54 | Nathan Van Hooydonck (Belgium) | Row 53 - Cell 2 |
55 | Fredrik Ludvigsson (Sweden) | Row 54 - Cell 2 |
56 | Riccardo Donato (Italy) | Row 55 - Cell 2 |
57 | Jose Tito Hernandez Jaramillo (Colombia) | 0:00:12 |
58 | Diyas Shagayev (Kazakhstan) | Row 57 - Cell 2 |
59 | Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spain) | Row 58 - Cell 2 |
60 | Caio Godoy Ormenese (Brazil) | Row 59 - Cell 2 |
61 | Erik Baska (Slovakia) | Row 60 - Cell 2 |
62 | Kristian Aasvold (Norway) | Row 61 - Cell 2 |
63 | Ruslan Giliazov (Russian Federation) | Row 62 - Cell 2 |
64 | Maciej Kasperkiewicz (Poland) | Row 63 - Cell 2 |
65 | Patryk Stosz (Poland) | Row 64 - Cell 2 |
66 | Elie Gesbert (France) | Row 65 - Cell 2 |
67 | Francisco Valinho (Portugal) | Row 66 - Cell 2 |
68 | Aydar Gareyshin (Russian Federation) | Row 67 - Cell 2 |
69 | Mathias Rask Jeppesen (Denmark) | Row 68 - Cell 2 |
70 | Peteris Janevics (Latvia) | Row 69 - Cell 2 |
71 | Gian Friesecke (Switzerland) | Row 70 - Cell 2 |
72 | Geoffrey Curran (United States of America) | Row 71 - Cell 2 |
73 | Emil Vinjebo (Denmark) | Row 72 - Cell 2 |
74 | Niklas Eg (Denmark) | Row 73 - Cell 2 |
75 | Mads Pedersen (Denmark) | Row 74 - Cell 2 |
76 | Nico Denz (Germany) | Row 75 - Cell 2 |
77 | Dominic Von Burg (Switzerland) | 0:00:17 |
78 | Oskar Svendsen (Norway) | Row 77 - Cell 2 |
79 | Francesco Rosa (Italy) | 0:00:25 |
80 | Abderahmane Mansouri (Algeria) | Row 79 - Cell 2 |
81 | David Per (Slovenia) | Row 80 - Cell 2 |
82 | Michael Vakoc (Czech Republic) | Row 81 - Cell 2 |
83 | Nigel Ellsay (Canada) | Row 82 - Cell 2 |
84 | Chun Wing Leung (Hong Kong, China) | Row 83 - Cell 2 |
85 | Sam Oomen (Netherlands) | Row 84 - Cell 2 |
86 | Maximilian Schachmann (Germany) | 0:00:28 |
87 | Carlos Henrique Dos Santos (Brazil) | Row 86 - Cell 2 |
88 | Ryan Mullen (Ireland) | Row 87 - Cell 2 |
89 | Joachim Vanreyten (Belgium) | 0:00:33 |
90 | Petter Schmidt (Norway) | 0:00:43 |
91 | Yerlan Pernebekov (Kazakhstan) | Row 90 - Cell 2 |
92 | Jo Biehl (Luxembourg) | Row 91 - Cell 2 |
93 | Artem Nych (Russian Federation) | Row 92 - Cell 2 |
94 | Christopher Lawless (Great Britain) | Row 93 - Cell 2 |
95 | Vladislau Dubovski (Belarus) | Row 94 - Cell 2 |
96 | Stylianos Farantakis (Greece) | 0:00:47 |
97 | Oscar Gonzalez Del Campo Garcia-Villarrubia (Spain) | Row 96 - Cell 2 |
98 | Marcus Fåglum-Karlsson (Sweden) | Row 97 - Cell 2 |
99 | Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Norway) | Row 98 - Cell 2 |
100 | Hayden McCormick (New Zealand) | 0:00:50 |
101 | Cormac Clarke (Ireland) | 0:00:53 |
102 | Kilian Frankiny (Switzerland) | 0:01:01 |
103 | Frederik Plesner (Denmark) | 0:01:33 |
104 | Suguru Tokuda (Japan) | 0:01:39 |
105 | Ryan Felgate (South Africa) | 0:01:45 |
106 | Will Stephenson (Great Britain) | 0:01:54 |
107 | Aksel Nõmmela (Estonia) | 0:02:03 |
108 | Gregor Muhlberger (Austria) | 0:02:11 |
109 | Patrick Bosman (Austria) | Row 108 - Cell 2 |
110 | Robert-Jon McCarthy (Australia) | 0:02:16 |
111 | Nicholas Schultz (Australia) | Row 110 - Cell 2 |
112 | Mario Dasko (Slovakia) | 0:02:28 |
113 | Umberto Orsini (Italy) | 0:02:46 |
114 | Jose Alfredo Aguirre Infante (Mexico) | 0:02:59 |
115 | Ruben Guerreiro (Portugal) | Row 114 - Cell 2 |
116 | William David Muñoz Perez (Colombia) | 0:05:10 |
117 | Gasper Katrasnik (Slovenia) | 0:05:49 |
118 | Aliaksandr Riabushenko (Belarus) | Row 117 - Cell 2 |
119 | Kristen Kivistik (Estonia) | Row 118 - Cell 2 |
120 | Luís Gomes (Portugal) | 0:07:15 |
121 | Haitam Gaiz (Morocco) | 0:07:22 |
122 | Igor Minchenko (Russian Federation) | Row 121 - Cell 2 |
123 | Gregory Daniel (United States of America) | 0:08:56 |
HD | Julian Barrientos (Argentina) | Row 123 - Cell 2 |
HD | Christophe Braun (Luxembourg) | Row 124 - Cell 2 |
HD | Karim El Ouafi (Morocco) | Row 125 - Cell 2 |
HD | Hamza Fatnassi (Tunisia) | Row 126 - Cell 2 |
HD | Ali Nouisri (Tunisia) | Row 127 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Feritcan Samli (Turkey) | Row 128 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Christopher Prendergast (Canada) | Row 129 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Gregely Varró (Hungary) | Row 130 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Nicolas D`Angelo (Monaco) | Row 131 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Viktor Okishev (Kazakhstan) | Row 132 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Jose Luis Rodriguez (Chile) | Row 133 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Abderrahim Aouida (Morocco) | Row 134 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Sergey Luchshenko (Kazakhstan) | Row 135 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Mustapha Droueche (Algeria) | Row 136 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Marko Polumirac (Serbia) | Row 137 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ofek Hason (Israel) | Row 138 - Cell 2 |
DNF | German Nicolas Tivani Perez (Argentina) | Row 139 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Pita Cristian David (Ecuador) | Row 140 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Alexander Wachter (Austria) | Row 141 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Martin Otonicar (Slovenia) | Row 142 - Cell 2 |
DNF | David Klein (Luxembourg) | Row 143 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Aviv Yechezkel (Israel) | Row 144 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Szymon Rekita (Poland) | Row 145 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Krists Neilands (Latvia) | Row 146 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Stefan Stefanovic (Serbia) | Row 147 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Andrea Terenzi (San Marino) | Row 148 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Bálint Varró (Hungary) | Row 149 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ábel Kenyeres (Hungary) | Row 150 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Lukas Talacka (Lithuania) | Row 151 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ferhat Sezer (Turkey) | Row 152 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Kota Yokoyama (Japan) | Row 153 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ryan Gibbons (South Africa) | Row 154 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Bruno Maltar (Croatia) | Row 155 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Taylor Eisenhart (United States of America) | Row 156 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Andrejs Podans (Latvia) | Row 157 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Henrik Luostarinen (Finland) | Row 158 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Andrei Covalciuc (Republic of Moldova) | Row 159 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Raimondas Rumsas (Lithuania) | Row 160 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Rohan Du Plooy (South Africa) | Row 161 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Victor Langellotti (Monaco) | Row 162 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Miguel Bryon (United States of America) | Row 163 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Matthew Doyle (Ireland) | Row 164 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Rostyslav Chernysh (Ukraine) | Row 165 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Emre Sahin (Turkey) | Row 166 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Bruno Jean Jacques Dabbaghian (Lebanon) | Row 167 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Karim Ahmad Firdaus Abdul (Malaysia) | Row 168 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Abderrahmane Bechlagheme (Algeria) | Row 169 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Gay Sagiv (Israel) | Row 170 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ricardo Van Dongen (Netherlands) | Row 171 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Gustav Höög (Sweden) | Row 172 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Mantas Petrusevicius (Lithuania) | Row 173 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Anuar Mohamad Azrul Taufiq (Malaysia) | Row 174 - Cell 2 |
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