1 week Ago By Jackie Tyson
Image 1 of 8 Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) followed up his Olympic time trial title with a successful defence of his world title in Zurich (Image credit: Getty Images) Tobias Foss (Norway) (Image credit: Getty Images) João Almeida (Portugal) (Image credit: Getty Images) Filippo Ganna (Italy) (Image credit: Getty Images) Josh Tarling (Great Britain) (Image credit: Getty Images) Stefan Küng (Switzerland) (Image credit: Getty Images) Primož Roglič (Slovenia) (Image credit: Getty Images) Edoardo Affini (Italy) (Image credit: Getty Images) Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) made history on Sunday as the first elite man to add the world time trial victory to the Olympic time trial gold medal, dominating the 46.1km race against the clock in Zürich with a time of 53:01. Just a few hours earlier, Australia's Grace Brown scored the same rare double victory for elite women on a 29.
9km course. Double world time trial champion Filippo Ganna (Italy) smashed the 53:56 time of Edoardo Affini to bump his compatriot out of the hot seat, stopping the clock himself at 53:08. However, reigning Olympic champion Evenepoel went 6 seconds faster to seal the victory, despite Ganna gaining back time in the last leg of the race.
Ganna and Affini secured silver and bronze for Italy, with Affini's medal counting as his best at a Road World Championships, less than two weeks after taking the European title in the discipline. Results Results powered by FirstCycling.
