Cycling World Championships 2023 – Remco Evenepoel storms to individual time trial glory in Glasgow

Britain’s Joshua Tarling took an impressive third place. The 19 year-old from Aberaeron in Wales, shattered the fastest time at the finish, spending 15 minutes in the hotseat before being dislodged by Ganna. He ended the day 48 seconds adrift of Evenepoel to become the only teenager to take home a medal in the competition’s history.

The course, which both started and finished in Stirling, was less technical, and better suited to true time trialist’s than the one for Tuesday’s inner-Glasgow team relay, which a number of the riders had complained about. The 48.7km route carried the competitors out into the countryside before turning back on itself at Thornhill and returning via mostly a parallel roads. Its 28 turns were a mix of tight and sweeping, testing the rider’s bike-handling, while asking a lot of their engines on the fast headwind-facing straights.

The finish at Stirling Castle was the same as faced the younger riders, and the women who rode a similar course yesterday and on Friday morning.