Cycling, European Championships on track: Milan gold in the individual pursuit

The 21-year-old from Friuli, former Olympic champion with the team quartet, outclasses the Russian Gonev in the final

Another triumph for Italian cycling, another victory in 2021 for Italian sport. This time, thanks to the 21-year-old Jonathan Milan, Friulian born in Tolmezzo and living in Buja – the country of Alessandro De Marchi, winner of the Agostoni Cup on Wednesday – who, after having won Olympic gold with the team pursuit quartet, at the Europeans on track in Switzerland Grenchen dominates the individual pursuit. For the tricolor expedition this is the first success in the Swiss continental review.

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The race

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The final, which sees Milan opposed to the Russian Lec Gonov, is without history. Jonathan, on Sunday busy on the roads of Paris-Roubeix, made the law right from the first meters. The advantage is constantly increasing: it is 0 ”923 after the first km, 2” 129 after the second, even 4 ”247 after the third. You don’t even get to the end: just before the third and a half kilometers, such is the superiority, Gonov is achieved. The blue raises his arms to the sky: it is a great party. And patience if the final chronometric reference is missing at the 4th km …

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The legacy

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Milan, with Manlio Moro eighth, thus collects the baton from Filippo Ganna in the best possible way. The demonstration of class is prestigious. For Jonathan it is the first global individual victory of his career: the Italbici never ends.

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