Van der Poel wins junior men's world title
Pedersen and Nika take silver and bronze
Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) added the junior road race world title to his cyclo-cross crown with a devastating attack on the final ascent of Via Salviati. He then powered to the finish alone and even had to time to close his jersey and pull out a Dutch flag and celebrate in style.
Mads Pedersen (Denmark) won the sprint for second place three seconds after van der Poel, while Iltjan Nika claimed the bronze medal for Albania.
Logan Owen (USA) finished in fourth place, for a second consecutive world championship, just ahead of Italy’s Lorenzo Rota. Britain's Scott Davies finished seventh.
Van der Poel is the son of former professional and cyclo-cross world champion Adri van der Poel and he is the grandson of French legend Raymond Poulidor.
"This is special because it's my first international title on the road," van der Poel said.
"My attack was not prepared but I felt it was the moment to go. My dad gives me some advice but then I'm the one who has to race."
Van der Poel rode a smart race and used his bike handling skills and power to devastating effect. He dropped European champion Franck Bonnamour (France) on the steep slopes of Via Salviati and held a lead of 12 seconds at the summit of the climb. Although a group of 22 riders gave chase behind, he was able to hold on to win by three seconds at the finish.
Despite his world road race title, van der Poel announced he will focus on cyclo-cross for at least the next four years.
"I enjoy cyclo-cross more than road races so I'm going to focus on that for now but I will do some road races too. I've got a team already," he said.
"Boom and Stybar did cyclo-cross before switching to the road and they’re idols for me, so they prove you don’t have to make the change right now. There's time."
Iltjan Nika secured the first ever world road race championship medal for Albania.
"I didn’t know that. Let’s hope it's just the beginning for Albania," he said.
"You had to race with your head, not just the legs. We're one of the smaller nations and I only had two teammates. I live here in Toscana, race in a team that is from here and I know these roads, it was like racing at home."
Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Mathieu van Der Poel (Netherlands) | 3:33:14 |
2 | Mads Pedersen (Denmark) | 0:00:03 |
3 | Iltjan Nika (Albania) | |
4 | Logan Owen (United States Of America) | |
5 | Lorenzo Rota (Italy) | |
6 | Lucas Eriksson (Sweden) | |
7 | Scott Davies (Great Britain) | |
8 | Artem Nych (Russian Federation) | |
9 | Sergey Shemyakin (Kazakhstan) | |
10 | Benjamin Brkic (Austria) | |
11 | Lorenzo Fortunato (Italy) | |
12 | Gracjan Szelag (Poland) | |
13 | Anatoliy Budyak (Ukraine) | |
14 | Anders Skaarseth (Norway) | |
15 | Daniel Martínez (Colombia) | |
16 | Aliaksandr Riabushenko (Belarus) | |
17 | Victor Langellotti (Monaco) | |
18 | Piotr Konwa (Poland) | |
19 | Robert Power (Australia) | |
20 | Franck Bonnamour (France) | |
21 | Jonas Abrahamsen (Norway) | |
22 | Alessandro Fedeli (Italy) | 0:00:08 |
23 | Caio Godoy Ormenese (Brazil) | |
24 | Simone Velasco (Italy) | 0:01:00 |
25 | Christoffer Lisson (Denmark) | 0:01:09 |
26 | Matic Safaric Kolar (Slovenia) | |
27 | Julian Schulze (Germany) | |
28 | Geoffrey Curran (United States Of America) | |
29 | José Santoyo (Mexico) | |
30 | Evgeny Kobernyak (Russian Federation) | |
31 | Juan Felipe Osorio (Colombia) | |
32 | Sam Oomen (Netherlands) | |
33 | Pietro Andreoletti (Italy) | 0:02:05 |
34 | Mark Padun (Ukraine) | 0:02:07 |
35 | Laurens De Plus (Belgium) | |
36 | Daniel Fitter (Australia) | 0:02:24 |
37 | Kristjan Kumar (Slovenia) | 0:02:40 |
38 | Piet Allegaert (Belgium) | |
39 | Nikolay Cherkasov (Russian Federation) | 0:03:34 |
41 | Stef Krul (Netherlands) | 0:03:57 |
42 | Nathan Van Hooydonck (Belgium) | |
43 | David Rivière (France) | |
44 | Rémy Rochas (France) | 0:03:59 |
45 | Yonas Tekeste Haile (Eritrea) | |
46 | William Barta (United States Of America) | |
47 | Alex Aranburu (Spain) | |
48 | Kristian Aasvold (Norway) | |
49 | Patrick Müller (Switzerland) | |
50 | Mathias Van Gompel (Belgium) | |
51 | Julien Van Den Brande (Belgium) | |
52 | Yerlan Pernebekov (Kazakhstan) | |
53 | Jhonatan Casillas (Mexico) | |
54 | Gregely Varró (Hungary) | |
55 | Stylianos Farantakis (Greece) | 0:04:05 |
56 | Seid Lizde (Italy) | 0:04:07 |
57 | Adrian Auerbacher (Germany) | 0:04:14 |
58 | Andrej Petrovski (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) | 0:05:48 |
59 | Marco König (Germany) | 0:06:11 |
60 | Juraj Bellan (Slovakia) | |
61 | Ryan Cavanagh (Australia) | |
62 | Tom Wirtgen (Luxembourg) | |
63 | Amanuel Mengis Ghebreindrias (Eritrea) | 0:06:17 |
64 | Elie Gesbert (France) | 0:06:31 |
65 | Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spain) | 0:06:36 |
66 | Yevgeniy Gidich (Kazakhstan) | |
67 | Zeke Mostov (United States Of America) | |
68 | Pontus Kastemyr (Sweden) | 0:06:38 |
69 | Davy Gunst (Netherlands) | 0:07:00 |
70 | Gustav Höög (Sweden) | |
71 | Abderrahmane Bechlagheme (Algeria) | |
72 | Marius Sylta (Norway) | |
73 | Jonas Gregaard (Denmark) | |
74 | Mykyta Zubenko (Ukraine) | |
75 | Áquila Roux (Brazil) | 0:07:54 |
76 | Gaspar Gonçalves (Portugal) | 0:09:04 |
77 | Thomas Terrettaz (Switzerland) | 0:09:10 |
78 | David Ribeiro (Portugal) | 0:09:45 |
79 | Lennard Kämna (Germany) | |
80 | Michael Svendgaard (Denmark) | 0:10:17 |
81 | Aleksandr Komin (Russian Federation) | |
82 | Petter Theodorsen (Norway) | |
83 | Magnus Klaris (Denmark) | |
84 | Martin Schäppi (Switzerland) | |
85 | Michal Paluta (Poland) | |
86 | Andrejs Podans (Latvia) | |
87 | Pita Cristian David (Ecuador) | |
88 | Stepan Kurianov (Russian Federation) | |
89 | Matias Arriagada (Chile) | |
90 | Stepan Kochurov (Russian Federation) | |
91 | Gordian Banzer (Liechtenstein) | |
92 | Vladislav Galyanov (Uzbekistan) | |
93 | Ekke-Kaur Vosman (Estonia) | |
94 | Dzmitry Zhyhunou (Belarus) | |
95 | David Per (Slovenia) | |
96 | Onur Balkan (Turkey) | |
97 | Mario Stock (Austria) | |
98 | Eduardo Estrada (Colombia) | |
99 | Yam Poliak (Israel) | |
100 | Ryan Felgate (South Africa) | |
101 | Juan Camacho Del Fresno (Spain) | |
102 | Jaap De Jong (Netherlands) | |
103 | Hampus Anderberg (Sweden) | 0:10:50 |
104 | William Elliott (Canada) | 0:11:01 |
105 | Dmitriy Rive (Kazakhstan) | 0:11:33 |
106 | Saya Kuroeda (Japan) | 0:12:25 |
107 | Linas Rumšas (Lithuania) | |
108 | Uladzimir Gorohovik (Belarus) | 0:12:28 |
109 | Larry Valvasori (Luxembourg) | |
110 | Abderrahmane Mansouri (Algeria) | 0:12:31 |
111 | Rémi Aubert (France) | 0:12:35 |
112 | Aurélien Paret-Peintre (France) | |
113 | Michal Schlegel (Czech Republic) | |
114 | Lukas Schlemmer (Austria) | 0:13:14 |
115 | Florian Schipflinger (Austria) | |
116 | Matthew Gibson (Great Britain) | 0:13:17 |
117 | James Knox (Great Britain) | 0:13:22 |
118 | Tao Geoghegan Hart (Great Britain) | |
119 | Mateusz Kazimierczak (Poland) | 0:13:27 |
120 | Eric Süßemilch (Germany) | |
121 | Atsushi Oka (Japan) | 0:14:46 |
122 | Vasili Strokov (Belarus) | 0:14:51 |
123 | János Pelikán (Hungary) | 0:14:55 |
124 | Brent Luyckx (Belgium) | 0:15:02 |
125 | Ayden Toovey (Australia) | |
126 | Mathias Rask Jeppesen (Denmark) | |
127 | Ben Ganon (Israel) | 0:15:05 |
128 | Luc Turchi (Luxembourg) | 0:17:30 |
129 | Edward Dunbar (Ireland) | 0:17:44 |
DNF | Vladimir Cludin (Republic of Moldova) | |
DNF | Omer Goldstein (Israel) | |
DNF | Karlis Jirgensons (Latvia) | |
DNF | Elgun Alizada (Azerbaijan) | |
DNF | Dániel Móricz (Hungary) | |
DNF | Sean Mackinnon (Canada) | |
DNF | Adam Jamieson (Canada) | |
DNF | Adhanom Zemekael (Eritrea) | |
DNF | Balázs Rózsa (Hungary) | |
DNF | Maksim Nidodirov (Belarus) | |
DNF | Vlad Dobre (Romania) | |
DNF | Petr Fiala (Czech Republic) | |
DNF | Tomas Harag (Slovakia) | |
DNF | Jairo Lopez (Mexico) | |
DNF | Kwong Lau (Hong Kong, China) | |
DNF | Chris Jooste (South Africa) | |
DNF | Lucas Motta (Brazil) | |
DNF | Martin Duben (Slovakia) | |
DNF | Adrian Dumitru Zamfir (Romania) | |
DNF | Raivis Sarkans (Latvia) | |
DNF | Luka Kotur SRB | |
DNF | Husnudin Hakimov (Uzbekistan) | |
DNF | Lucian Buga (Romania) | |
DNF | Grigoriy Shtein (Kazakhstan) | |
DNF | Axel Journiaux (France) | |
DNF | Abdelghani Fellah (Algeria) | |
DNF | Federico Olei (San Marino) | |
DNF | César Martingil (Portugal) | |
DNF | Facundo Crisafulli (Argentina) | |
DNF | Alexander Wachter (Austria) | |
DNF | Domen Novak (Slovenia) | |
DNF | Ridion Kopshti (Albania) | |
DNF | Mark Downey (Ireland) | |
DNF | Marco-Tapio Niemi (Finland) | |
DNF | Miguel Bryon (United States Of America) | |
DNF | Justin Oien (United States Of America) | |
DNF | Dylan Foley (Ireland) | |
DNF | Kota Yokoyama (Japan) | |
DNF | Cristofer Jurado (Panama) | |
DNF | Ivan Venter (South Africa) | |
DNF | Hendrik Pineda (Canada) | |
DNF | Félix Lapointe (Canada) | |
DNF | Andrei Covalciuc (Republic of Moldova) | |
DNF | Svetikas Gintaras (Lithuania) | |
DNF | Andrea Maccagli (San Marino) | |
DNF | Martynas Stasikelis (Lithuania) | |
DNF | Patryk Krzywda (Poland) | |
DNF | Sapar Serdarov (Turkmenistan) | |
DNF | Sergey Medvedev (Uzbekistan) | |
DNF | Andrei Grigoriev (Republic of Moldova) | |
DNF | German Nicolas Tivani Perez (Argentina) | |
DNF | Fethi Acar (Turkey) | |
DNF | Enes Talha Ay (Turkey) | |
DNF | Nako Georgiev (Bulgaria) | |
DNF | Cristian Cornejo (Chile) | |
DNF | Zoheir Benyoub (Algeria) | |
DNF | Hichem Amari (Algeria) | |
DNF | Kristoffer Halvorsen (Norway) | |
DNF | Martijn Budding (Netherlands) | |
DNF | Nijat Niftaliyev (Azerbaijan) | |
DNF | Eno Rrucaj (Albania) | |
DNF | Zahar Slugin (Turkmenistan) | |
DNF | Carlo Noia (San Marino) | |
DNF | Ziga Rucigaj (Slovenia) | |
DNF | Santiago Quiroga (Argentina) | |
DNF | Filip Cengic (Croatia) |

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