World Championships Preview

[Dead Star]

This wasn't written by me, but by Peter Hoogervorst on another forum:

This year the world championships are being held in Salzburg, Austria. Six main events are held:

- Men U23 individual time trial (20/9)



*** Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus)
** Dimitro Grabovsky (Ukr), Peter Latham (NZl), Tony Martin (Ger)
* Jérôme Coppel (Fra), Dominique Cornu (Bel), Jos van Emden (Ned), Mark Jamieson (Aus), Andrei Kunitski (Blr), Simon Spilak (Slo)
Other interesting names: Belkov (Rus), Duarte (Col), Koren (Slo), Mortensen (Den), Rasmussen (Den)




- Elite Men individual time trial (21/9)



*** Michael Rogers (Aus)
** Fabian Cancellara (Swi), José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa), Sebastian Lang (Ger)
* Leif Hoste (Bel), Andreas Klöden (Ger), Gustav Larsson (Swe), David Millar (GBr), Alexandre Vinokurov (Kaz), David Zabriskie (USA)
Other interesting names: Belohvosciks (Lat), Bodrogi (Hun), Clement (Ned), Gusev (Rus), Karpets (Rus), Nibali (Ita), Posthuma (Ned), Sosenka (Cze)

- Men U23 road race (23/9)


*** Francesco Gavazzi (Ita)
** Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor), Gerald Ciolek (Ger), Matthew Goss (Aus)
* Robert Gesink (Ned), Francesco Ginanni (Ita), Dimitry Grabovsky (Ukr), Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned), Benoît Sinner (Fra), Peter Velits (Svk)
Other interesting names: Cavendish (GBr), Cornu (Bel), Ilesic (Slo), Intxausti (Spa), Kozonchuk (Rus), Lund (Den), Meersman (Bel), Svab (Slo), Avermaet (Bel), Roelandts (Bel), Seeldraeyers (Bel), Wyss (Slo)





- Elite Men road race (24/9)


*** Paolo Bettini (Ita)
** Alejandro Valverde (Esp), Stefan Schumacher (Ger), Alexandre Vinokurov (Kaz)
* Michael Boogerd (Ned), Tom Boonen (Bel), Danilo di Luca (Ita), Philippe Gilbert (Bel), Samuel Sanchez (Esp), Erik Zabel (Ger)
Other interesting names: Bak (Den), Ballan (Ita), Evans (Aus), Fischer (Bra), Hushovd (Nor), Kashechkin (Kaz), Kolobnev (Rus), Kroon (Ned), McEwen (Aus), Murn (Slo), O'Grady (Aus), Paulinho (Por), Rebellin (Ita), F. Schleck (Lux), Totschnig (Aus), Wesemann (Swi)
Disclaimer: the elite race starting lists were preliminary at the time of this post

Expect the usual suspects for the women's races.

In case you are missing the juniors in this schedule, that is correct: their world championships were held over a month ago, in Francorchamps.

The results there (fyi):

Junior Men ITT
1 Marcel Kittel (Germany) 34.03 (41.585 km/h)
2 Etienne Pierret (France) 0.11
3 Tony Gallopin (France) 0.33
4 Dmitriy Sokolov (Russian Federation) 0.34
5 Cameron Meyer (Australia) 0.42

Junior Women ITT
1 Rebecca Spence (New Zealand) 18.53 (37.493 km/h)
2 Lesya Kalitovska (Ukraine) 0.22
3 Mie Bekker Lacota (Denmark) 0.38
4 Linda van Rijen (Netherlands) 0.43
5 Ausrine Trebaite (Lithuania) 0.45

Junior Men RR
1 Diego Ulissi (Italy) 3.08.50
2 Niki Ostergaard (Denmark) 0.09
3 Tony Gallopin (France)
4 Dmitry Sokolov (Russian Federation)
5 Siarhei Papok (Belarus) 0.24

Junior Women RR for those who actually care...
1 Rasa Leleivyte (Lithuania) 2.01.16 (33.64 km/h)
2 Marina Romoli (Italy)
3 Eleonora Patuzzo (Italy)
4 Linda van Rijen (Netherlands)
5 Karol-Ann Canuel (Canada)

 

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- Elite Men individual time trial (21/9)

*** Michael Rogers (Aus)
** Fabian Cancellara (Swi), José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa), Sebastian Lang (Ger)
* Leif Hoste (Bel), Andreas Klöden (Ger), Gustav Larsson (Swe), David Millar (GBr), Alexandre Vinokurov (Kaz), David Zabriskie (USA)
Other interesting names: Belohvosciks (Lat), Bodrogi (Hun), Clement (Ned), Gusev (Rus), Karpets (Rus), Nibali (Ita), Posthuma (Ned), Sosenka (Cze)

No mention of Serguei Gonchar ? WUWT?
Serguei Should win, show or place the ITT.

 

[wicklow200]

No mention of Serguei Gonchar ? WUWT?
Serguei Should win, show or place the ITT.

Yes, well spotted. Maybe he's out?

 

[EvilJediJ]

Is Vino really riding the Time trial?

 

[jonjungel]

Is Vino really riding the Time trial?

... and he did it really well. Third place behind two tt-specialists shows that this guy is really on form.

Had Vino gone four seconds slower, it would have been a pure CSC podium.

 

[lwedge]

This wasn't written by me, but by Peter Hoogervorst on another forum:

Elite Men individual time trial (21/9)



*** Michael Rogers (Aus)
** Fabian Cancellara (Swi), José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa), Sebastian Lang (Ger)
* Leif Hoste (Bel), Andreas Klöden (Ger), Gustav Larsson (Swe), David Millar (GBr), Alexandre Vinokurov (Kaz), David Zabriskie (USA)
Other interesting names: Belohvosciks (Lat), Bodrogi (Hun), Clement (Ned), Gusev (Rus), Karpets (Rus), Nibali (Ita), Posthuma (Ned), Sosenka (Cze)

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Good call !

lw

 

[JAPANic]

Results

Provisional
1 Paolo Bettini (Italy) 6.15.36
2 Erik Zabel (Germany)
3 Alessandro Valverde (Spain)
4 Samuel Sanchez (Spain) 0.02
5 Robbie McEwen (Australia)
6 Stuart O'Grady (Australia)
7 Uros Murn (Slovenia)
8 Botcharov Alexandre (Russian Federation)
9 Tom Boonen (Belgium)
10 Vladimir Gusev (Russian Federation)

Best race I've seen this year (final 20kms at least).

Zabel was unucky... the sprinters missed out... Good win for Italy...

 

[Bro Deal]

Poor Zabel. Second again.

I wonder how big Bettini's head will get now. The gold shoes, helmet, bar tape, and everything else was bad enough. Now he will spend the rest of his career with world championship stripes plastered on everything he owns.

 

[Hookyrider]

Watched the live coverage the whole day, a bit of a sleeper - yes the last 20K was fantastic, and the last 10K was ever better!

a brilliant finish, PB had to work hard to get around Zabel for the win - I was loving it!

HR

 

[Rolfrae]

Watched the live coverage the whole day, a bit of a sleeper - yes the last 20K was fantastic, and the last 10K was ever better!

a brilliant finish, PB had to work hard to get around Zabel for the win - I was loving it!

HR

The wee Cricket's head is finally going to ourgrow his body. He will probably get his skin tattooed rainbow stripes just so nobody can ever forget he won today. He deserved it though, was attacking lots on the last two laps. I was screaming for Zabel to win. So wish he had. He seems to have been around forever, hope he doesn't retire just yet. Also hope Milram don't make him play second fiddle so much to Peta next season. Zabel for Paris-Tours anyone?

 

[wolfix]

The wee Cricket's head is finally going to ourgrow his body. He will probably get his skin tattooed rainbow stripes just so nobody can ever forget he won today. He deserved it though, was attacking lots on the last two laps. I was screaming for Zabel to win. So wish he had. He seems to have been around forever, hope he doesn't retire just yet. Also hope Milram don't make him play second fiddle so much to Peta next season. Zabel for Paris-Tours anyone?

I was so disapointed that Zabel could not pull it off...... But PB is a winner. I hope he wears the stripes with pride. They stand for something. For one year we will know who he is.

 

[limerickman]

Best race I've seen this year (final 20kms at least).

Zabel was unucky... the sprinters missed out... Good win for Italy...

I agree totally.

Bettini rode a superb race : I thought that when his break in the Rennenberg (correct spelling ?) was caught, that perhaps he had tried to get away too soon.
But the final sprint between him, Zabel, Valverde was great viewing.

 

[Powerful Pete]

Oh yes! And Paolo will have more color coordination troubles - gold, tricolor and all the stripes!

And honor to Zabel for his riding and his attitude following the race!

Could not resist adding a couple of good pics...

 

[limerickman]

Oh yes! And Paolo will have more color coordination troubles - gold, tricolor and all the stripes!

And honor to Zabel for his riding and his attitude following the race!

Could not resist adding a couple of good pics...

PP - I thought that Paolo did well to survive the celebrations when he crossed the finish line !

Chapeau to Bettini and Italia!

 

[Powerful Pete]

PP - I thought that Paolo did well to survive the celebrations when he crossed the finish line !

Chapeau to Bettini and Italia!

Grazie!

Unfortunately I have not seen the race - I am abroad on a business trip. Found out via SMS from my dad. Only saw highlights on the evening news in Russian confused: no, no idea what they said ).

Oh well, I will download it from somewhere when I get home.

 

[limerickman]

Grazie!

Unfortunately I have not seen the race - I am abroad on a business trip. Found out via SMS from my dad. Only saw highlights on the evening news in Russian confused: no, no idea what they said ).

Oh well, I will download it from somewhere when I get home.

It was a great race to watch - a lot of riders featured throughout which was interesting.
Stuart O'Grady was prominent : Cancellara too.
Actually Davide Rebellin rode a really good race, as did DiLuca and Paolini and Pozzato.

There were a couple of Dutch riders doing well on the last lap. Vino tried to blow the field away - then Ballan had a go - then Bettini.

David Millar rode a very good race too.

 

[wolfix]

It was a great race to watch - a lot of riders featured throughout which was interesting.
Stuart O'Grady was prominent : Cancellara too.
Actually Davide Rebellin rode a really good race, as did DiLuca and Paolini and Pozzato.

There were a couple of Dutch riders doing well on the last lap. Vino tried to blow the field away - then Ballan had a go - then Bettini.

David Millar rode a very good race too.

Finally ..... A great day in cycling where the story of the day is about championship riding and not about dope. This is the kind of *day that the riders and organizations owe the fans. We deserve days like this. The only thing better about today would have been able to see Zabel take the win. But PB will represent the #1 jersey in all of cycling well.

* Take note UCI, McQuid and **** Pound....

 

[Powerful Pete]

It was a great race to watch - a lot of riders featured throughout which was interesting.
Stuart O'Grady was prominent : Cancellara too.
Actually Davide Rebellin rode a really good race, as did DiLuca and Paolini and Pozzato.

There were a couple of Dutch riders doing well on the last lap. Vino tried to blow the field away - then Ballan had a go - then Bettini.

David Millar rode a very good race too.

Excellent! Thanks for the update!

Thank the Lord for the internet!

 

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Only saw highlights on the evening news in Russian confused: no, no idea what they said ).

This is just a guess, but I bet they said - "The Italian Rocket, Paolo Bettini won the race!". I bet the said this too, " An enormouse Rainbow has developed over Italy!".

Good call by the way. http://www.cyclingforums.com/showpost.php?p=3002166&postcount=24

lw

 

[DiabloScott]

This is just a guess, but I bet they said - "The Italian Rocket, Paolo Bettini won the race!". I bet the said this too, " An enormouse Rainbow has developed over Italy!".

Good call by the way. http://www.cyclingforums.com/showpost.php?p=3002166&postcount=24

lw

Everyone had Bettini on their short list - I had Bettini, Valverde, and Vino.

And he needs it as a morale booster before winning the Lombardia again this year...

That would make two monuments won by two World Champions in the same year!