Strong conclusion to the time trial competitions: The German mixed team wins silver at the World Championships. They are less than a second away from the gold coup.
Antonia Niedermaier put her hands over her face in anticipation, Maximilian Schachmann held his breath: In the end, the German mixed doubles missed the golden World Championship coup on Zurich’s Sechseläutenplatz by just 0.85 seconds. “We are really satisfied, we drove a strong race. We can’t blame ourselves for anything,” said Miguel Heidemann.
In the mixed team time trial, favorite Australia ultimately triumphed, taking gold ahead of the surprisingly strong German sextet of Miguel Heidemann, Marco Brenner and Maximilian Schachmann as well as Antonia Niedermaier, Liane Lippert and Franziska Koch. Italy came third after 53.7 kilometers, eight seconds behind.
Niedermaier outstanding
The men laid the foundation for their success with a really strong time trial. After the first intermediate time, the trio had the best time, but the favored Italians and Australians overtook them on the flatter section. The women took to the track 21 seconds behind Australia and 14 seconds behind Italy.
Franziska Koch had already lost ground at the first intermediate time, but the gap to first place had almost been closed. Niedermaier in particular, who had missed a medal by just nine seconds in the individual time trial, finishing fourth, once again showed an outstanding performance and played the biggest role in winning the medal.
Identical lap to the road race
The team time trial was a foretaste of the road races that begin on Thursday, as it took place on an identical circuit. While the juniors and U23s will determine their world champions on Thursday and Friday, the women will start their 154.1-kilometer race on Saturday. The circuit around Zurich will have to be completed four times.
The men’s race on Sunday, starting in Winterthur, will ultimately take them over the challenging course seven times with two consecutive climbs. 4,500 meters of elevation must be overcome over the 273.9 kilometers. The favorites are Tour winner Tadej Pogacar from Slovenia, Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel from Belgium and the Dutch defending champion Mathieu van der Poel.
Source: Stern
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