Worlds: Dideriksen wins second junior women's road race

A perfectly calculated sprint for the line netted Amalie Dideriksen her second straight gold in the World Championships Junior Women’s road race, easily outpowering Italy’s Sofia Bertizzolo for silver by a half bike length. Agnieszka Skalniak took the bronze for Poland.

The race could not have been fought out more differently to 2013, when Dideriksen won from a break of three that went clear very early on.

Rather than a breakaway, the peloton largely remained together for the first three laps of the 18.2 kilometre circuit. Then the key moment came after Italy upped the pace at the front in the last of four laps, and then fired two riders - Bertizzolo and Sofia Beggin - up the road on the final ascent of the the Mirador climb.

However, Dideriksen bridged across, the two Italians hesitated and the front peloton of around 20 riders reformed shortly before the final dash for the line.

Bertizzolo made a brave bid to take the gold, surging fast on Dideriksen’s left, but the Danishwoman had no problem upping her pace slightly to take her country’s first gold of the 2014 Worlds.

“I’m very happy, I was not expecting this,” Dideriksen - whose two titles means she is one of just three riders, along with Britons Nicole Cooke and Lucy Garner, to take a double Junior Worlds road gold - said afterwards.

“I thought a lot of my rivals would keep an eye on me, because of last year and it was a very different race to last year, too.”

“This time round everybody knew me. So it’s amazing to get another gold.”

“Pernille [Mathiesen - teammate] did a great job of working for me in the finale and catching the other riders who got away. It was very close at the end, so I’m happy I managed this.”

 

Full Results

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#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Amalie Dideriksen (Denmark)2:02:59
2Sofia Bertizzolo (Italy)Row 1 - Cell 2
3Agnieszka Skalniak (Poland)Row 2 - Cell 2
4Nikola Noskova (Czech Republic)Row 3 - Cell 2
5Lisa Klein (Germany)Row 4 - Cell 2
6Greta Richioud (France)Row 5 - Cell 2
7Jeanne Korevaar (Netherlands)Row 6 - Cell 2
8Jelena Eric (Serbia)Row 7 - Cell 2
9Saartje Vandenbroucke (Belgium)Row 8 - Cell 2
10Mathilde Cartal (France)Row 9 - Cell 2
11Alexandra Manly (Australia)Row 10 - Cell 2
12Daria Pikulik (Poland)Row 11 - Cell 2
13Kiyoka Sakaguchi (Japan)Row 12 - Cell 2
14Inga Rodieck (Germany)Row 13 - Cell 2
15Sina Frei (Switzerland)Row 14 - Cell 2
16Lenny Druyts (Belgium)Row 15 - Cell 2
17Janelle Cole (United States Of America)Row 16 - Cell 2
18Yumi Kajihara (Japan)Row 17 - Cell 2
19Emeliah Harvie (Canada)0:00:03
20Katia Ragusa (Italy)Row 19 - Cell 2
21Svetlana Ryabova (Kazakhstan)0:00:06
22Faina Potapova (Kazakhstan)0:00:11
23Paula Patiño (Colombia)Row 22 - Cell 2
24Sofia Beggin (Italy)0:00:13
25Soline Lamboley (France)0:00:15
26María Calderón (Spain)Row 25 - Cell 2
27Pernille Mathiesen (Denmark)Row 26 - Cell 2
28Dafné Théroux-Izquierdo (Canada)Row 27 - Cell 2
29Angela Adelsberger (Austria)Row 28 - Cell 2
30Camila Valbuena (Colombia)Row 29 - Cell 2
31Cristina Martinez (Spain)Row 30 - Cell 2
32Nikola Zdráhalová (Czech Republic)Row 31 - Cell 2
33Laurence Dumais (Canada)Row 32 - Cell 2
34Nikol Plosaj (Poland)Row 33 - Cell 2
35Macey Stewart (Australia)0:00:20
36Emma White (United States Of America)0:00:28
37Melissa Lowther (Great Britain)Row 36 - Cell 2
38Yareli Salazar (Mexico)Row 37 - Cell 2
39Jip Van Den Bos (Netherlands)0:00:30
40Endija Rutule (Latvia)0:01:32
41Bethany Hayward (Great Britain)0:01:42
42Sara Wackermann (Italy)0:02:18
43Maria Kantsyber (Russian Federation)0:02:19
44Rocío García (Spain)Row 43 - Cell 2
45Madeleine Boutet (United States Of America)0:04:10
46Hannah Swan (United States Of America)Row 45 - Cell 2
47Julia Scheidegger (Switzerland)0:06:27
48Eva Maria Palm (Belgium)0:07:40
49Aline Seitz (Switzerland)0:07:49
50Milda Aužbikaviciute (Lithuania)Row 49 - Cell 2
51Megan Barker (Great Britain)Row 50 - Cell 2
52Anna-Leeza Hull (Australia)0:07:53
53Ellinor Huusko (Sweden)0:09:43
54Chanella Stougje (Netherlands)Row 53 - Cell 2
55Wiebke Rodieck (Germany)Row 54 - Cell 2
56Fanny Zambon (France)Row 55 - Cell 2
57Ema Manikaite (Lithuania)Row 56 - Cell 2
58Marta Lach (Poland)Row 57 - Cell 2
59Katja Jeretina (Slovenia)Row 58 - Cell 2
60Brenda Santoyo (Mexico)Row 59 - Cell 2
61Viktoria Popova (Russian Federation)Row 60 - Cell 2
62Karen Flores (Mexico)Row 61 - Cell 2
63Ernesta Strainyte (Lithuania)Row 62 - Cell 2
64Christina Schweinberger (Austria)Row 63 - Cell 2
65Anastasiia Pliaskina (Russian Federation)Row 64 - Cell 2
66Sara Poidevin (Canada)Row 65 - Cell 2
67Coral Casado (Spain)Row 66 - Cell 2
68Jacqueline Dietrich (Germany)Row 67 - Cell 2
69Catherine Colyn (South Africa)Row 68 - Cell 2
70Daria Egorova (Russian Federation)0:09:48
71Kimberley Le Court De Billot (Mauritius)0:10:22
72Nicole Nesti (Italy)0:10:37
73Ebtesam Zayed Ahmed (Egypt)0:11:18
74Aafke Soet (Netherlands)0:12:06
75Ana Paula Casetta (Brazil)0:14:16
76Linda Halleröd (Sweden)0:15:03
77Yekaterina Yuraitis (Kazakhstan)0:16:17
78Nadezhda Geneleva (Kazakhstan)0:16:21
79Mari-Liis Mottus (Estonia)Row 78 - Cell 2
80Michelle Benson (South Africa)Row 79 - Cell 2
81Renata Da Silva Lopes (Brazil)Row 80 - Cell 2
82Marike Tache (Romania)Row 81 - Cell 2
83Ayse Cakir (Turkey)Row 82 - Cell 2
84Ekaterina Knebeleva (Uzbekistan)Row 83 - Cell 2
85Monique Gerber (South Africa)Row 84 - Cell 2
DNFGrace Garner (Great Britain)Row 85 - Cell 2
DNFMenatalla Essam Ragab (Egypt)Row 86 - Cell 2
DNFGamze Kiyas (Turkey)Row 87 - Cell 2
DNFJulia Karlsson (Sweden)Row 88 - Cell 2
DNFJosie Knight (Ireland)Row 89 - Cell 2
DNFFien Delbaere (Belgium)Row 90 - Cell 2
DNFZeynep Ezgi Tekinoglu (Turkey)Row 91 - Cell 2
DNFTereza Medvedova (Slovakia)Row 92 - Cell 2

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Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.

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