Ellen Van Dijk, time trial world champion

the dutch Ellen van Dijk, by winning the elite individual time trial, won the first gold medal at the Road Cycling World Championships which started this Sunday in the town of Wollongong in Australia, near Sydney, in the state of New South Wales.

Van Dijk, 35, dominated the 34.2 km test from start to finish. on an urban circuit full of curves completed in a time of 44 minutes and 28 seconds, at an average of 46,012 kms. every hour.

The Dutch are joined on the podium by Australian Grace Brown and Swiss Marlen Reusserwhich he surpassed by 15 and 42 seconds, respectively.

With this victory, Van Dijk reaffirmed the title achieved in 2021 in Flanders (Belgium)achieved his third individual gold at the CRI, which he already won in 2013 in Florence (Italy), and the seventh to add to the total of four he achieved in the team time trial.

The cyclist from Harmelen has always set the best race time since the first race reference, at km.7.2, he was 9 seconds ahead of Reusser, who started second, and 10 seconds ahead of Brown.

The last podium also took place throughout the racedue to the second reference, at km.24.5, Van Dijk led the Australian by 22 seconds and the Swiss by 34, this world runner-up in 2020, in Imola (Italy), and in 2021.

At this moment in the absence of an online test, Annemiek van Vleuten, also from the Netherlands, cannot finish his great season, the Movistar rider who dominated the entire season winning the Giro, the Tour and the Vuelta.

Van Vleuten finished seventhbehind Italian Vittoria Guazzini and Americans Leah Thomas and Kristen Faulkner, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.

Spaniards Sandra Alonso from Alicante and Lourdes Oyarbide from Alava, finished in positions 31 and 32, 6.19 and 6.22 behind the winner.. Just behind Colombian Lina Marcela Hernández, thirtieth in 5.31. Further back finished the Argentine Luciana Roland, thirty-six, and the Chilean Catalina Anais Soto did not finish.