Photo gallery: The beauty and the pain of the World Championships men’s races
When yesterday’s elite men’s road race came to a close in Bergen, Norway, so too did the 2017 Road World Championships. It was a week of stunning scenery, terrific team efforts and stunning solo performances.
In the following gallery we look back at the men’s time trials and road races from the 2017 Road World Championships (juniors, U23s and elites), courtesy of some typically amazing photography from Kristof Ramon. You can find a gallery of the women’s time trials at Ella CyclingTips, likewise for the elite women’s road race.
Enjoy!
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- Luke Durbridge (Orica-Scott) warms up ahead of the teams time trial.
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- Tom Dumoulin was a picture of serenity before the TTT.
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- Team Sunweb accelerates out of the start.
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- Chris Froome was all focus as Sky began their TTT.
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- Daryl Impey cools down post-finish. His Orica-Scott team finished fifth.
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- Team Sunweb are the new TTT world champions, finishing ahead of BMC and Sky.
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- Scott Davies (Great Britain) warms up ahead of the U23 men’s ITT.
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- Kevin Geniets (Luxembourg) rolls through a tunnel on his way to 32nd.
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- Patrick Haller (Germany) flies around a corner on his way to 20th.
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- Kasper Asgreen (Denmark) composes himself after finishing seventh.
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- Tom Wirtgen (Luxembourg) required assistance immediately after finishing fourth.
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- Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark) is the new U23 World ITT champion, finishing more than a minute clear of his nearest rival, Brandon McNulty (USA). Corentin Ermenault (France) was third.
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- Filip Maciejuk (Poland) tears his way around the Junior Men’s ITT course en route to third.
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- Germany’s Leon Heinschke finished 13th, 40 seconds behind the winner.
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- Thomas Pidcock was crowned junior men’s ITT world champion, ahead of Antonio Puppio (Italy) and Maciejuk.
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- The elite men’s ITT finished with a steep 3km climb on Mount Fløyen, which presented great views over Bergen. Here’s Singapore’s Yi Peng Teoh on his way to the slowest time of the day, some 13 minutes behind the winner.
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- Local favourite Edvald Boasson Hagen enjoyed plenty of support on the Mount Fløyen climb …
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- … particularly towards the top.
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- Alexis Gougeard rode an impressive ITT and would have finished higher than 11th were it not for a late mechanical.
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- Stefan Küng buries himself en route to 25th.
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- ITTs are hard, as Nikias Arndt (Germany) demonstrates here.
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- Primoz Roglic (Slovenia) was one of the only contenders to change bikes before the final climb. He rode impressively uphill to finish second.
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- Rohan Dennis’ chances of a gold medal were scuppered by a crash. The Australian would finish eighth.
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- Chris Froome rode strongly, but looked a little off his best. He finished third.
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- Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) put in a remarkable ride to win his first World ITT title. He finished nearly a minute clear of Roglic, and 1:21 ahead of Froome.
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- Riccardo Zoidl (Austria) catches his breath post-finish.
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- Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark) also needed a moment.
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- Dumoulin first, Roglic second, Froome third.
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- The U23 men’s road race took place on Friday.
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- Team Norway driving the peloton in the U23 men’s race.
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- Benoit Cosnefroy (France) won the sprint from a late breakaway that just held off the chasing peloton.
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- Cosfroy took gold, Lennard Kamna (Germany) was second, Michael Carbel Svendbaard (Denmark) was third.
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- The junior men’s peloton passes by some colourful houses in Bergen.
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- Tomas Meriac (Slovakia) battled on after a crash but didn’t finish the race.
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- Julius Johansen (Denmark) attacked on the final lap and went on to win the race solo by nearly a minute. He celebrated his victory with a dab.
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- Ilan Van Wilder (Belgium) was sporting a wound on his chin after pulling out of the race.
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- Karel Vacek (Czech Republic) dug deep on his way to 69th.
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- Johansen first, Italy’s Luca Rastelli and Michele Gazzoli in second and third.
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- The elite men’s road race started some 40km north west of Bergen, before heading towards the city for nearly 12 laps of the finishing circuit.
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- The Australian team was all in for Michael Matthews.
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- Julien Vermote (Belgium) leads the bunch through the Bergen city centre.
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- The riders on the Salmon Hill climb, with views over Bergen.
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- After several threatening moves in the closing stages, the race was back together for a sprint. It was a narrow victory for Peter Sagan (Slovakia) over local rider Alexander Kristoff — so close that Sagan didn’t celebrate when he crossed the line.
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- He did celebrate once the result was announced though. Here he is being congratulated by his brother Juraj.
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- The now-three-time world champion is somewhere in there.
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- Before Sunday, no man had ever won three consecutive world road championships. By beating Kristoff and Matthews, Sagan achieved that truly remarkable feat.
