UEC European Championships: Ineos-bound super talent Benjamín Noval maintains Worlds form to win junior men's time trial

Denmark's Malthe Risbjerg; Spain's Benjamin Noval Suarez and Belgium's Vic De Smet celebrate on the podium of the Men Junior Individual Time Trial race (22km) at the cycling UEC Road European Championships, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on Wednesday 7 October 2026. The UEC Road European Championships are taking place from 02 to 07 October in Ljubljana, Slovenia.BELGA PHOTO DAVID PINTENS (Photo by DAVID PINTENS / BELGA MAG / Belga / AFP via Getty Images) — (Image credit: Getty Images)

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Spain did the double in the junior time trials at the UEC European Championships in Slovenia, as Benjamín Noval matched what Alejandra Neira did on Wednesday morning, narrowly claiming the men's title by less than a second in Šenčur.

On the surface, it looks as though junior road race and time trial World Champion Noval completely dominated proceedings as he did in Canada last month, leading the race at both intermediate time checks before the finish.

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Position	Rider (Country) Team	Time Gap
1	Benjamín Noval (Spa)	29:46:98
2	Malthe Risbjerg (Den)	0:00:03
3	Vic De Smet (Bel)	0:07:66
4	Antoine Salamin (Swi)	0:09:37
5	Patrik Pezzo Rosola (Ita) General Store- Essegibi- F.Lli Curia	0:14:07
6	Julius Løvstrup Birkedal (Den)	0:21:67
7	Jop Van Den Biggelaar (Ned)	0:27:78
8	Vanja Kuntarič Žibert (Slo)	0:31:59
9	Elias Wändel (Swe)	0:53:89
10	Maks Olenik (Slo)	1:03:73
11	Niklas Wiesmayr (Aut)	1:05:28
12	Timotej Michalík (Svk)	1:06:14
13	Kristian Haugetun (Nor)	1:10:89
14	Mikołaj Legieć (Pol)	1:19:25
15	Sander Willems (Bel)	1:21:21
16	Maksymilian Matyasik (Pol)	1:22:92
17	Owen Kings (Ger)	1:26:15
18	Jakub Zaňka (Cze)	1:30:54
19	Gal Stare (Slo)	1:36:93
20	Sindre Orholm-Lønseth (Nor)	1:37:14
21	Gonçalo Costa (Por)	1:38:01
22	Enrico Andrea Balliana (Ita)	1:38:90
23	Finn Bastiaanssen (Ned)	1:50:19
24	Niko Terho (Fin)	1:50:56
25	Aivis Pivors (Lat)	1:50:77
26	Luca Martinez (Spa)	2:08:94
27	Ruben Friedl (Aut)	2:19:12
28	Dmytro Starovoitov (Ukr)	2:19:79
29	Gian Müller (Swi)	2:20:48
30	Lenny Karstedt (Ger)	2:27:47
31	Georgs Tjumins (Lat)	2:31:92
32	Matas Kubilius (Ltu)	2:33:06
33	Šimon Kment (Cze)	2:59:72
34	Maximilien Outlet (Lux)	3:00:24
35	Marvin Pietz (Ger)	3:12:90
36	Anton Sytnikov (Ukr)	3:21:42
37	Mateusz Błaszak (Pol)	3:24:98
38	Michal Kacina (Svk)	3:41:59
39	Dave Cichy (Lux)	3:43:18
40	Gabriel Andronache (Rom)	3:45:26
41	Martynas Medelinskas (Ltu)	3:46:06
42	Muhammet Umut Demircan (Tur)	3:47:00
43	Afonso Falcao Silva (Por)	3:49:10
44	Bulat Fazlyev	3:49:86
45	Dimitar Mitev (Bul)	3:57:54
46	Ege Erülkü (Tur)	4:00:11
47	Theodor Trica (Rom)	4:00:86
48	Vladyslav Holiak (Ukr)	4:03:45
49	Lonut Riccardo Haisu (Rom)	4:06:64
50	Thibault Hansen (Lux)	4:14:89
51	Milan Stojadinović (Srb)	4:31:80
52	Kasparas Valinskas (Ltu)	4:44:48
53	Šimun Kvasina (Cro)	5:11:85
54	Festim Kurti (Kos)	5:24:34
55	Danail Ivanov (Bul)	5:32:47
56	Džan Durak (BiH)	5:51:02
57	Mihail Doaga (Mda)	5:53:74
58	Andrei Cassone (Mlt)	5:55:53
59	Rahim Naghiyev (Aze)	6:08:42
60	Göktürk Yüzerler (Tur)	6:36:27
61	Daniel Anisei (Mda)	6:46:61
62	Sólvason Sólon Kári (Isl)	7:13:03
63	Jovan Kovačević (Mne)	9:47:29

James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.

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