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EsCiclismo.com · Road Competition · 09/27/2020
The French cyclist Julian Alaphilippe has been proclaimed Champion of the World by winning this Sunday in the online test, contested on a tough route of 258.2 kilometers and some 5,000 meters of positive unevenness, starting and finishing in the Italian town of Imola.
With a time of 6 hours, 38 minutes and 34 seconds, Alaphilippe prevailed in the arrival at Imola ahead of Belgian Wout van Aert and Swiss Marc Hirschi, silver and bronze, completing the World Road Championship podium.
An attack 12 kilometers from the end earned the Frenchman to open a small gap that allowed him to reach the finish line outstandingly to win the gold medal and the arcoris jersey.
The Spaniard Alejandro Valverde finished in eighth place, 53 seconds behind the French.
The race was marked by a flight of seven runners that formed as soon as the race started and was neutralized 70 kilometers from the end. The Mexican Ulises Alfredo Castillo Soto, the Romanian Eduard-Michael Gosu, the German Jonas Koch, the Austrian Marco Friedrich, the Norwegian Torstein Traeen, the Kazakh Daniil Fominykh and the Japanese Yukiya Arashiro were part of the adventure.
Julian Alaphilippe succeeded dans Mads Pedersen, winner in 2019 in Yorkshire (United Kingdom) in the palmars of the event.
More information coming soon.
Classifications
Classification of the online test:
Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) – 6:38:34
2. Wout van Aert (BEL) at 0:24
3. Marc Hirschi (SUI) at 0:24
4. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL) at 0:24
5. Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) at 0:24
6. Primoz Roglic (SLO) at 0:24
7. Michael Matthews (AUS) at 0:53
8. ALEJANDRO VALVERDE (ESP) at 0:53
9. Maximilian Schachmann (GER) at 0:53
10. Damiano Caruso (ITA) at 0:53
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