Dumoulin tenth in time trial at the UCI Road World Championships | Cycling

sport">The Dutchman finished tenth in the final classification after the 31.7 kilometer stage, the Italian Filippo Ganna won gold in 35 minutes and 54 seconds. The silver went to the Belgian Wout van Aert, the Swiss Stefan Kung took the bronze. Jos van Emden finished in 21st place. Defending champion Rohan Dennis from Australia finished fifth.

sport">Ganna distinguished herself last week by winning the final time trial in the stage race Tirreno-Adriatico. Last year he finished third at the World Cup, behind Dennis and the young Belgian Remco Evenepoel. The latter was not included in Imola due to the consequences of a fall in the Tour of Lombardy.

Thomas was fastest

sport">Dumoulin focused on Geraint Thomas on his departure at 3.51 pm, who at that time had the fastest time. Ganna and Dennis still started behind Dumoulin, and Ganna in particular got off the starting blocks.

sport">At the first measuring point, after 14.9 kilometers, he was no less than 36 seconds below the passage time of Thomas, and Dennis also dived under it. Although the Australian was still 20 seconds slower than the Italian. While there were still four riders behind him (including Kung), Wout van Aert Thomas took first place.

Whirlwind

sport">The Belgian from Jumbo-Visma saw a little later how Kung also came in under Thomas’s time, but had to tolerate Ganna, who had started like a whirlwind, above him. Dumoulin had crowned world time trial champion in Norway in 2017.

sport">Ganna is the first Italian to conquer the world title in the time trial with the elite men. Especially on the track, he has already built up an impressive honors list with four world titles in the individual pursuit. He is also the holder of the world record for that discipline, driven earlier this year at the World Championships in Berlin.

At height

sport">“This is a dream for me. I have already won four rainbow jerseys on the track, but now I am also successful on the road ”, said the very happy winner, who stayed at heights in Imola until three days before his performance. “And we talked as little as possible about this World Cup in order not to increase the pressure. All my supervisors, both the people from Ineos and those from the Italian federation, have helped me tremendously. ”

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