Remco Evenepoel has claimed Belgium’s first-ever gold in the elite men’s time trial at the 2023 Road World Championships, ahead of Italy’s Filippo Ganna, silver, and Josh Tarling, the 19-year-old Briton who delivered a remarkable ride to finish in bronze at his first-ever elite men’s world championships.
Evenepoel, who was the 2022 World Road Race Champion, finished 12 seconds ahead of Ganna on the 47.8-kilometre course that started and finished in Stirling, with Tarling finishing 48 seconds back.
Slightly slower at the first checkpoint behind Ganna, Evenepoel then moved ahead of the Italian in the hillier second segment to go two better than his bronze medal in 2022 and in 2021.
The youngest-ever elite men’s time trial world champion, at 23, Evenepoel will now head to the Vuelta a España to defend his 2022 victory.
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