recent Vuelta a España winner Remco Evenepoel and defending world time-trial champion Filippo Ganna. Related: Ellen van Dijk pips Grace Brown to win Road World Championships opener These were the riders expected to triumph in Wollongong.
Not Foss. The Norwegian has a reasonable palmarès: he won the Tour de l’Avenir in 2019, a race known for anointing future stars, won the road race and time-trial titles at last year’s Norwegian championships and finished ninth overall at the 2021 Giro d’Italia.
But compared to the time-trial pedigree of Ganna and co, Foss had not even been considered among the pre-race favourites. Yet one by one, the final four failed to better the Team Jumbo–Visma rider’s pace, of 40 minutes and two seconds – averaging a rapid 51.
3km per hour across the course. Küng came the closest, only 2. 9 seconds away, to take the silver medal. Evenepoel continued his recent Vuelta form to finish third, nine seconds back.
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