A few of the planet’s quickest racers within the 17 to 18-year-old age group will compete on Monday, September 23 to assert the title as males’s junior time trial champion on the 2024 UCI Street World Championships. They are going to compete on a 24.9km course simply at some point after the elite divisions start a full week of competitors in Zürich, Switzerland.
A flat race towards the clock will take athletes out-and-back alongside the japanese shore of Lake Zürich, which excludes any climbing that the elites face close to Maur to the north at Lake Greifensee and the foothills of the Pfannenstiel. This could make the intermediate time test close to Herrliberg – 9.4km on the outbound part and 15.5km on the return – a detailed examination for seconds within the single digits.
As soon as the clock stops on Sechseläutenplatz in Zürich, there are a handful of recent riders who needs to be jostling for the new seat and the rainbow stripes, because the riders from final yr’s junior males’s podium have all aged out of the class. Cyclingnews calls consideration to 5 riders who’re among the many favourites.
Albert Withen Philipsen (Denmark)
Albert Withen Philipsen of Denmark celebrates successful the mens junior street race on the Glasgow Street World Championships (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Philipsen is a multi-discipline world champion at simply 17 years of age. In August final yr, he received junior World titles within the street race and cross-country mountain bike, the 2 victories separated by simply 5 days. He completed the yr with European championships in two disciplines – within the ITT on the street and off-road in XCO. There was no low season for the younger expertise this winter, as he competed within the Cyclocross World Championships and completed fifth within the males’s junior race.
It was no shock that his accomplishments landed him a four-year professional contract to race with Lidl-Trek starting in 2025. A two-time Danish nationwide champion within the time trial, Philipsen might be harmful in Zürich, as he’ll look to take medals in each the ITT and street race in his last yr as a junior.
Nicolas Bialon (Switzerland)
Nicolas Bialon crushed his competitors at Swiss nationals within the time trial, successful the boys’s junior title by 26 seconds. He might be a favorite on house soil, however the distance is probably not in his favour. The 17-year-old received the 18.4km Chrono Roland Bouge two weeks in the past, however he was simply exterior the highest 25 at UEC European Continental Championships, that course 31.3km. The flat terrain could also be to his liking on the 24.9km distance.
Michiel Mouris (Netherlands)
Dutch rider § wins the junior males’s time trial on the European Street Championship 2024 (Picture credit score: DIRK WAEM / BELGA MAG / Belga by way of AFP / Getty Photos)
Recent off the ITT victory for junior males on the UEC European Championships is Michiel Mouris of the Netherlands. On a 31.3km course in Belgium, the 17-year-old rode to his third particular person time trial victory of the season, which was a stage at Acht van Bladel, which put him third on GC. He was third in a short while trial on stage 2 on the UCI 2.1 Penn Ar Mattress – Pays d’Iroise. At UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor he was seventh within the males’s junior occasion.
The Dutch rider received his nation’s nationwide time trial championship, edging his World’s teammate Senna Remijn by one second. The nationals contest was a detailed set-up to what he’ll see on Tuesday, so search for the orange colors of the Dutch rider to submit a quick time.
Ashlin Barry (United States)
Ashlin Barry on his option to successful the 2024 US males’s junior 17-18 time trial nationwide championship in Charleston, West Virginia (Picture credit score: USA Biking / Snowy Mountain Images)
Ashlin Barry will make his second look at a World Championships for the USA within the males’s junior time trial. Earlier this yr he made his Worlds debut on the monitor and earned a silver medal within the Omnium, lacking the highest spot by one level.
The EF Training-ONTO rider lives in Toronto together with his dad and mom Dede and Michael Barry, each former professionals, and registered to experience for Workforce USA at the beginning of the 2024 season. Barry’s mom ‘Dede’ Demet Barry was a junior street race world champion, and her son may very nicely comply with go well with, as he earned double males’s junior gold medals for the US this yr, successful the ITT and street race whereas including silver within the criterium. He’ll experience the double at Worlds, lining up within the street race three days later and celebrating his seventeenth birthday in between.
Jasper Schoofs (Belgium)
Jasper Schoofs was the silver medallist at Belgian in each the time trial and street race, and he then added the silver within the ITT on the UEC European Championships. He is one other younger rider with cyclocross expertise, however his important focus stays on the street, the place he received 4 one-day races in Belgium and France this yr. Schoofs received the time trial phases at Trophée Centre Morbihan and Aubel-Thimister-Stavelot, and simply previous to the European Championships he received the boys’s junior 21.2km time trial Memorial Igor Decraene.
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