This historic victory was registered on Monday at U23 World Championship time trialto the success of young Ivan Romeo (21 years old). He Valladolid corridor has become less throughout the 29.9 kilometers of which the World Cup CRI consists. After having the second best time of all the contestants in the first two sets, he eventually took off to achieve a stratospheric victory, with a margin of more than 30 seconds over the Swede Jakob Söderqvist and the swiss Jan Christen.
In the last ten kilometers the Movistar Team rider is not only surpassed Belgian Alec Segaert, but he clearly surpassed his rivals and proof of how much he did this last sector is not only the 30 seconds faster he invested in completing the route that Söderqvist, but he did it in 54 seconds less than the Belgian Segaert.
In Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) The gold medal was celebrated in style, among the RFEC technical directors Christopher Sanchez and the U23 road cycling coach Michael Zabalawith the president José Luis López Cerrón and the rest of Ivan’s companions.
In this season Ivan Romeo has competed for a total of 51 days and has already obtained good results in the time trial of Touring the UAE (he is 10th) or at Return to Burgos (7th). Last year he was 4th in the U23 European Championship won by Belgian Alec Segaert and 15th in the ITT of the World Championship.
The last time a Spanish runner was proclaimed time trial world champion in this category was Jose Ivan Gutiérrez in 1999. It took 25 years.
Source: La Verdad
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