The German Niklas Behrens won the rainbow jersey for Switzerland in the under-23 road race of the Zurich 2024 Cycling and Paracycling World Cup, a race tinged with pain after learning of the Swiss junior’s death. Muriel Furrer during the race.
Niklas Behrens (Bremen, 2003) and Slovak Martin Svreck They sprinted for the title in an effort where the German was clearly the best. The bronze medal went to the Belgian Alec Segaert.
Behrens clocked 3:57:24 over the 173.6 kilometers between Uster and Zurich at an average of 43.875 km/h in a test where 184 cyclists started.
The Spanish, in the top-10
Two Spanish representatives entered the top-10, the best being world time trial champion Iván Romeo, in ninth position, followed by Igor Arrieta in tenth. Pablo Torres finished twenty-seventh, and Iker Mintegi twenty-ninth.
The Swiss Jan Christen, who finished fourth, was the main star of the race after launching a very strong long-range attack, 50 kilometers from the end, which did not find a suitable response from his rivals but had that’s 10 kilometers left to finally be good. The race once again had an outdoor competitor on the water that reached more than one.
On the other hand, it was a bittersweet victory for the German cyclist, because the news of Muriel Furrer’s death was learned during the trial after not being able to overcome the severe head trauma he suffered this Thursday as a result of a fall in the junior race.
Source: La Verdad
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