Ireland’s Nicolas Roche tackles the packed final climb on his way to his best ever result at a World Championships (Photo: Philip Cassidy)
Nicolas Roche best ever Worlds result in Bergen
Irish rider Nicolas Roche has taken his best ever World Championships result in the elite men’s TT in Bergen, Norway.
On a course which effectively involved a flat TT combined with a hill climb at the end, Roche was 12th.
The new world champion is Tom Dumoulin who demolished the opposition.
Despite rainfall for those off towards the back end of the field, Dumoulin won by almost one minute.
He beat Primoz Roglic of Slovenia into the silver medal position by 58 seconds.
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And taking the bronze was Team GB’s Chris Froome, who was some 1:21 down on the winner.
The TT was 31km and featured the 3.4km climb of Mount Fløyen at the end. It rises over nine per cent and the final kilometre is over 10 per cent.
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Nicolas Roche finished in 12th place, some 1:54 down. That result beats his previous best result from a Worlds, in either the road race or TT.
He was 13th in the TT in Florence back in 2013 when Tony Martin (Germany) won from the now retired Bradley Wiggins (Team GB) and Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland).
Martin was the defending champion today but was critical of the fact the course ended atop the climb.
He said the course ruled him out of winning and he was proven right; coming home in 9th place some 1:40 down on the winner.
Nicolas Roche was just 33 seconds off Froome in 3rd place.
Wed, Sept 20th: Elite Men's TT (31km)
1 Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) 0:44:41
2 Primoz Roglic (Slovenia) 0:00:58
3 Chris Froome (Great Britain) 0:01:21
4 Nelson Oliveira (Portugal) 0:01:29
5 Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) 0:01:29
6 Gianni Moscon (Italy) 0:01:29
7 Wilco Kelderman (Netherlands) 0:01:34
8 Rohan Dennis (Australia) 0:01:37
9 Tony Martin (Germany) 0:01:40
10 Jan Tratnik (Slovenia) 0:01:43
11 Bob Jungels (Luxembourg) 0:01:49
12 Nicolas Roche (Ireland) 0:01:54
13 Alexis Gougeard (France) 0:01:54
14 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain) 0:02:01
15 Ilnur Zakarin (Russian Federation) 0:02:04
16 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway) 0:02:11
17 Andrey Grivko (Ukraine) 0:02:15
18 Nikias Arndt (Germany) 0:02:16
19 Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania) 0:02:21
20 Martin Toft Madsen (Denmark) 0:02:33
21 Laurens De Plus (Belgium) 0:02:35
22 Yves Lampaert (Belgium) 0:02:35
23 Victor Campenaerts (Belgium)
24 Jan Barta (Czech Republic) 0:02:39
25 Stefan Kung (Switzerland) 0:02:46
26 Tejay Van Garderen (United States Of America) 0:02:48
27 Gorka Izaguirre Insausti (Spain) 0:02:49
28 Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan) 0:03:05
29 Hugo Houle (Canada) 0:03:07
30 Alexander Evtushenko (Russian Federation) 0:03:07
31 Andreas Vangstad (Norway) 0:03:09
32 Tobias Ludvigsson (Sweden) 0:03:10
33 Rui Costa (Portugal) 0:03:11
34 Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark) 0:03:21
35 Jasha Sutterlin (Germany) 0:03:28
36 Mateusz Taciak (Poland) 0:03:29
37 Eduardo Sepulveda (Argentina) 0:03:32
38 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kazakhstan) 0:03:33
39 Hamish Bond (New Zealand) 0:03:34
40 Reto Hollenstein (Switzerland) 0:03:34
41 Joseph Rosskopf (United States Of America) 0:03:47
42 Serghei Tvetcov (Romania) 0:03:49
43 Tao Geoghegan Hart (Great Britain) 0:03:51
44 Zhandos Bizhigitov (Kazakhstan) 0:04:01
45 Jarlinson Pantano Gomez (Colombia) 0:04:11
46 Lukas Postlberger (Austria) 0:04:14
47 Riccardo Zoidl (Austria) 0:04:46
48 Robert Britton (Canada) 0:04:57
49 Willem Jakobus Smit (South Africa) 0:05:27
50 Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 0:06:02
51 Redi Halilaj (Albania) 0:06:03
52 Valens Ndayisenga (Rwanda) 0:06:06
53 Kostyantyn Rybaruk (Ukraine) 0:07:36
54 King Lok Cheung (Hong Kong, China) 0:08:14
55 Uri Martins Sandoval (Mexico) 0:08:23
56 Nazir Jaser (Syrian Arab Republic) 0:08:35
57 Elchin Asadov (Azerbaijan) 0:09:00
58 Eugert Zhupa (Albania) 0:09:15
59 Meron Teshome (Eritrea) 0:09:49
60 Ahmad Badreddin Wais (Syrian Arab Republic) 0:10:58
61 Arsalan Anjum Muhammad (Pakistan) 0:11:48
62 Gabriel Tan (Singapore) 0:12:47
63 Awais Khan (Pakistan) 0:12:52
64 Yi Peng Teoh (Singapore) 0:13:00
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