Julius Johansen (Denmark) wins Junior men road race world championship in Bergen, Norway.

Julius Johansen (Denmark) solo's to Junior road race championship in Bergen, Norway. While Italian duo's Luca Rastelli took silver and Michele Gazzoli with bronze.

 Johansen lone attack and used his time trial skills to build up a lead from 10 seconds with 12 kilometres to go to nearly a minute at the finish.

 The race started with a 45 km long run-in to five laps of a circuit course. By the time the field entered that course, an escape group of seven had a gap of over a minute on the field. The escape gained and lost various riders as the gap continuously shrank.

 1, Julius Johansen (Denmark) 3:10:48,
2, Luca Rastelli (Italy) 0:00:51,
3, Michele Gazzoli (Italy),
4, Niklas Märkl (Germany),
5, Jake Stewart (Great Britain),
6, Florian Kierner (Austria),
7, Filippo Zana (Italy),  
8, Olav Hjemsæter (Norway),
 9, Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kazakhstan),
10,Jacob Hindsgaul Madsen (Denmark).

Peter Sagan (Slovakia) burst to triple elite men's road race worlds championship victory in Bergen,Norway.

Peter Sagan (Slovakia) outpowers Norwagian (Alexander Kristoff) to his third triple hat-trick elite men's world road race championship in Bergen, Norway.

Michael Mathews (Australia) wins bunch sprint for third place to take bronze medal. The Slovakian burst out of the final turn, powered to the front and, in a perfectly executed bike throw, snatched the victory in a photo finish over Alexander Kristoff (Norway), with Australia’s Michael Matthews third.

 Large crowds and overcast skies greeted the peloton at the start in Rang. Shortly after kilometre zero, Conor Dunne (Ireland) went on the attack and nine riders came with him: Sean McKenna (Ireland), Alexey Vermeulen (USA), Andrey Amador (Costa Rica), Kim Magnusson (Sweden), Matti Manninen (Finland), Willie Smit (South Africa), Elchin Asadov (Azerbaijan), Eugert Zhupa (Albania) and Salah Eddine Mraouni (Morocco). The ten leaders quickly built up a sizeable lead, which yawned out to 9 minutes after 24 kilometres.

 Top Ten Elite Men world road race championship result

1,Peter Sagan (Slovakia),
2, Alexander Kristoff (Norway),
3, Michael Matthews (Australia),
4, Matteo Trentin (Italy), 5, Ben Swift (Great Britain),
 6, Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium),
 7, Michael Albasini (Switzerland),
8, Fernando Gaviria (Colombia),
9, Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan),
10, Julian Alaphilippe (France).

Chantal Blaak (Netherlands) solo's Elite women world road race victoy in Bergen, Norway.

Chantal Blaak (Netherlands) secures Elites Women World Road race Championship after crashing in Bergen, Norway. Katrin Garfoot (Australia) attacks to second place ahead of 2016 champion Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark) as the 2016 champion outsprinted the peloton as they are catching the chasers, 28 seconds down on the winner to bronze.

Back to back victories for Netherlands from Lizzie Deignan to Amalie Dideriksen and now to Chantal Blaak.

The sun was shining as the women took on eight laps of the 19.1km circuit course, each time tackling the Salmon Hill climb. Shortly before the first lap was finished, Sara Penton (Sweden) went clear of the peloton. She had 37 seconds on the field as she started on the second lap.

Top Ten Elite Women World Road Championship Result

 1 Chantal Blaak (Netherlands) 4:06:30,
2, Katrin Garfoot (Australia) 0:00:28,
3, Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark),
 4, Annemiek Van Vleuten (Netherlands),
 5, Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Poland)
 6, Christine Majerus (Luxembourg),
 7, Susanne Andersen (Norway),
 8, Anna Van Der Breggen (Netherlands),
9,Emilia Fahlin (Sweden),
10, Elena Cecchini (Italy).

TTTom Dumoulin (Netherlands) wins world ITT championship in Mount Floyen, Norway.

Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) nets emphatic world individual time trial victory atop Mount Floyen, Norway he beats Primoz Roglic (Slovenia) Silver at 0:45:38.79 and Vuelta Espana/tour champion Chris Froome (Great Britain) wrap up third place bronze at 46:02.2.

Dumoulin is just the fifth rider to win a Grand Tour and a Worlds time trial title in the same season. Jan Ullrich was the last to do it in 1999. Ullrich won the Vuelta a Espana that year. Dumoulin almost caught Froome at the top of the climb, but the British rider just about managed to take third place.

 The early starters on Wednesday were able to enjoy the best of the conditions, as a steady drizzle would wash over Bergen by the time the final tranche of riders had tackled the course, but few of their number would make any real impact on the leader board by day's end.

 Top Ten Elite ITT World Championship Result.

 1, Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) 44:41.0,
2, Primoz Roglic (Slovenia) 0:45:38.79,
 3, Chris Froome (Great Britain) 46:02.2,
4, Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) 0:46:09.52,
5, Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) 0:46:09.75,
 6, Gianni Moscon (Italy) 0:46:10.49,
7, Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands) 0:46:15.33,
 8, Rohan Dennis (Australia) 0:46:18.00,
9, Jan Tratnik (Slovenia) 0:46:24.45,
10, Bob Jungels (Luxembourg) 46:30.5

Thomas Pidcock (USA) wins under 23 ITT world championship in Bergen, Norway.

Thomas

Pidcock (United States of America) claimed a storming victory in the junior men’s time trial at the 2017 World Championships.

 The British prodigy, who’s national, European, and world champion at junior level in cyclo-cross, completed the rolling 21.1km course in Bergen in a time of 28:02, some 12 seconds quicker than his nearest rival.

 Pidcock, the 60th of 78 starters, flew out of the blocks and was already three seconds up at the early first intermediate checkpoint after 3.6km. His advantage grew by the top of the Birkelundsbakken, the pivotal 1.4km climb that topped out at the 9.6km mark, and moreso on the rolling descent into Bergen. He crossed the line more than half a minute up on the fastest rider to take his place in the hotseat, and it was clear it would take something special to beat him.

Top Ten under 23 world ITT result championship

1, Thomas Pidcock (Great Britain) 0:28:02.15,
2, Antonio Puppio (Italy) 0:00:11.92,
3, Filip Maciejuk (Poland) 0:00:13.29,
4, Juri Hollmann (Germany) 0:00:21.53,
5, Igor Chzhan (Kazakhstan) 0:00:23.66   6, Julius Johansen (Denmark) 0:00:27.61,
7, Daan Hoole (Netherlands) 0:00:29.87,
8, Andreas Leknessund (Norway) 0:00:32.30,
 9, Nik Cemazar (Slovenia) 0:00:35.49,
 10, Sebastian Berwick (Australia) 0:00:35.93.

Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) wins world women ITT in Bergen, Norway.

Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) beats Anna Van der Breggen to win Elite women World Individual Time trial Championship in Bergen, Norway.

 The Dutchwoman completed the 21.1km course in a time of 28:50, 12 seconds over van der Breggen faster than compatriot.

 Van der Breggen, just the second rider out on the course, took and held the initial lead with a mark that few even came close to matching for nearly an hour. American Chloe Dygert was the first rider to come within a minute, but Van Vleuten was not far behind her on the rain-slicked course.

Top ten Elite women world ITT result

 1, Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) 0:28:50,
2, Anna van Der Breggen (Netherlands) 0:00:12,  3,Katrin Garfoot (Australia) 0:00:19,
4,Chloe Dygert (United States) 0:00:38,
5,Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands) 0:00:52,
6,Linda Villumsen (New Zealand) 0:00:56,
7, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (South Africa) 0:01:19,
 8,Lauren Stephens (United States) 0:01:20,
9,Hannah Barnes (Great Britain) 0:01:23, 10,Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Denmark) 0:01:34.