A fierce Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) is crowned champion this week of background test of National Route National Championships And thus achieved double, as this week he also won the test of Counterreloj.
Bernal, who will bring the Colombian flag to his jersey this year, thus achieving the title of the national route at the first time after the third last year and runner -up in 2020.
The 28 -Year -old corridor, which started on the right foot of its 2025 season, completed in five hours, 48 minutes and 12 seconds the trial played in 237 kilometers, in a circuit in the city of BuCaramanga (northern -east) which cyclists gave ten laps.
The 2019 France Tour Champion won Diego Camargo (Team Medellín-EPM), second and two minutes and 15 seconds.
The copper went Kevin Castillo (System), who took him to the final sprint the medal a Einer Rubio (Movistar team) and ends the test for three minutes and 41 seconds from the champion.
The test broke when Bernal and Camargo attacked the final stretch and left the group of persecutions, which they got to get more than a minute of difference.
When less than nine kilometers disappear for the goal and the final climb will start, the corridor of the Ineos Grenadier says he has recovered his best level and left Camargo, with nothing to do before the attack of his opponent who wants to return this season to be one of the best in the world.
Titles this week was the first Bernal achieved since 2021 he won Giro de Italia and after the accident where he almost disappeared in 2022, when he practiced with his roadmates from Bogotá to Tunja and fell on a bus.
Source: La Verdad
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