News: Dumoulin Wins World TT Title

Giro winner Tom Dumoulin beats Tour and Vuelta winner Chris Froome in wet world time trial championships in Norway

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News: Dumoulin Wins World TT Title

Giro winner Tom Dumoulin beats Tour and Vuelta winner Chris Froome in wet world time trial championships in Norway

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Tom Dumoulin produced a powerful performance to win the men’s individual time trial World Championship for the first time ahead of Primoz Roglic and Chris Froome. The 26-year-old Dutchman stopped the clock on a 31km course in Bergen, Norway, in 44 minutes 41 seconds, which was 57 seconds faster than runner-up Primoz Roglic, of Slovenia, and 1’21” quicker than runner-up Chris Froome, of Great Britain.

Dumoulin, who completed the double in Bergen after forming part of Team Sunweb’s team time trial-winning line-up on Sunday, becomes the first Dutch rider to win the men’s individual time trial world title.
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Dumoulin, who was quickest at all five intermediate time checks, said: “I cannot believe it. It is really amazing. I had such a good day. I thought my power meter was off because it was so high. I felt really, really good. Then it started raining and I needed to take the corners really slow, especially in the first 1km of the climb, with all the twists and turns. Every corner my back wheel was slipping because I had my TT tyres on because I thought it was going to be dry.

“I though at first, definitely bike change, but then I saw the climb for the first time last Friday and then I was already doubting. Yesterday I made the decision, ‘No, let’s not take the risk, I think I’m one of the guys who can do a really good climb on the TT bike, I have no problems handing it’. I think it was the better decision”.

“The double is amazing. Last Sunday was very surprising that we won with the team. Today is maybe less surprising; I think I was maybe one of the favourites. I was calm and I was on a good day.”

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Chris Froome: “It would have been nice to be competing for the gold medal here but I have no regrets,” he said. “It is an amazing way to end the season, with two bronze medals (Team Time Trial and Individual time trial). “It has been a long season and an amazing season that I will forever be grateful for. I am glad to be at the end of it now.”

Tao Geoghegan-Hart: “You would have to use a beep noise to describe that ride,” Geoghegan Hart told BBC Sport. “I couldn’t get on top of it, I couldn’t get my breathing right, it was not a great ride. I came off on one of the corners. I overcooked it a little bit – I was too ambitious and trying to go too fast.”

Tony Martin: Defending champion, “I’m disappointed. The closer the final climb came, the more I lost the tension. It was not my race, I probably did not believe in myself at all. The Norwegian fans have helped a  lot. It was a brilliant support. After the season we will be analyzing together in the team what we can and need to do better for the next season,” said Tony Martin.

RESULT
1.  DUMOULIN Tom NED         44:41
2.  ROGLIC Primoz SLO        45:38
3.  FROOME Chris GBR         46:02
4.  OLIVEIRA Nelson POR      46.09
5.  KIRYIENKA Vasil BLR      46:09
6.  MOSCON Gianni ITA        46:10
7.  KELDERMAN Wilco NED      46:15
8.  DENNIS Rohan AUS         46:18
9.  MARTIN Tony GER          46:20
10.  TRATNIK Jan SLO         46:24
11. JUNGELS Bob LUX          46:30
12.  ROCHE Nicolas IRL       46:34
13.  GOUGEARD Alexis FRA     46:34
14. CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP 46:42
15.  ZAKARIN Ilnur RUS       46:45
16.  CAMPENAERTS Victor BEL  46:49
17.  BOASSON HAGEN Ed NOR    46:52
18.  GRIVKO Andrey UKR       46:56
19.  ARNDT Nikias GER        46:57
20.  KONOVALOVAS Ignatas LTU 47:02
21.  MADSEN Martin Toft DEN  47:14
22.  DE PLUS Laurens BEL     47:16
23.  LAMPAERT Yves BEL       47:16
24.  BARTA Jan CZE           47:20
25.  KUNG Stefan SUI         47:26
26.  VAN GARDEREN Tejay USA  47:28
27.  IZAGUIRRE Gorka ESP     47:29
28.  LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ     47:45
29.  HOULE Hugo CAN          47:47
30.  EVTUSHENKO Alex  RUS    47:47
31.  VANGSTAD Andreas NOR    47:50
32.  LUDVIGSSON Tobias SWE   47:50
33.  COSTA Rui POR           47:51
34.  HANSEN Lasse Norman DEN 48:02
35.  SUTTERLIN Jasha GER     48:09
36.  TACIAK Mateusz POL      48:09
37.  SEPULVEDA Eduardo ARG   48:12
38.  GRUZDEV Dmitriy KAZ     48:14
39.  BOND Hamish NZL         48:14
40.  HOLLENSTEIN Reto SUI    48:15
41.  ROSSKOPF Joseph USA     48:28
42.  TVETCOV Serghei ROU     48:30
43.  GEOGHEGAN HART Tao GBR  48:31
44.  BIZHIGITOV Zhandos KAZ  48:42
45.  PANTANO Jarlinson COL   48:51
46.  POSTLBERGER Lukas AUT   48:55
47.  ZOIDL Riccardo AUT      49:27
48.  BRITTON Robert CAN      49:38
49.  SMIT Willem Jakobus RSA 50:08
50.  BODNAR Maciej POL       50:43
51.  HALILAJ Redi ALB        50:44
52.  NDAYISENGA Valens RWA   50:46
53.  RYBARUK Kostyantyn UKR  52:16
54.  CHEUNG King Lok HKG     52:55
55.  MARTINS  Uri MEX        53:03
56.  JASER Nazir SYR         53:15
57.  ASADOV Elchin AZE       53:41
58.  ZHUPA Eugert ALB        53:56
59.  TESHOME Meron ERI       54:30
60.  WAIS  Badreddin SYR     55:38
61.  MUHAMMAD Arsalan  PAK   56:28
62.  TAN Gabriel SIN         57:27
63.  KHAN Awais PAK          57:32
64.  TEOH Yi Peng SIN        57:41

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