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.
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