Ben Walsh and Xeno Young have been in action in the junior TT at the World Championships in Bergen. But it was Team GB’s Tom Pidcock who showed the way, taking the gold to add to his cyclocross world title.

Pidcock takes Worlds gold, Xeno Young best of Irish

By Jimmy Lally

Already the British, European and world cyclocross champion, Tom Pidcock has won gold in the junior TT at the World Championships in Bergen.

Demonstrating, once again, that he can turn his hand to any discipline and beat all comers Pidcock took the title today by 12 seconds from Italian Antonio Puppio.

On the 21.1km undulating course Poland’s Filip Maciejuk finished just one second behind Puppio for bronze.

From an Irish perspective the TT was nothing to write home about as Xeno Young and Ben Walsh finished down the field.

Young was 30th at 1:34 and knows he can do better at this level on the road.

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Expectations were always going to be high after winning silver in the individual pursuit at the European and world track championships this summer.

And while his 30^th place today is far off his achievements on the track, he has been focussed on the boards this season. And he has sealed the deal twice for Ireland with exceptional performances.

Ben Walsh went into today’s test having retained his Irish junior TT title just over a week ago.

He has been the dominant junior at home this year, winning the opening stage of the Junior Tour of Ireland and holding the yellow jersey all the way.

His 45^th place today, some 1:56 off the flying Pidcock, was disappointing.

But he will bank invaluable experience from these Worlds that he will use to his benefit in the U23 ranks next year.

More to follow.

Tues, Sept 19^th: Junior TT (21.1km)

1 Thomas Pidcock (Great Britain) 0:28:02.15
2 Antonio Puppio (Italy) 0:00:11.92
3 Filip Maciejuk (Poland) 0:00:13.29
4 Juri Hollmann (Germany) 0:00:21.53
5 Igor Chzhan (Kazakhstan) 0:00:23.66
6 Julius Johansen (Denmark) 0:00:27.61
7 Daan Hoole (Netherlands) 0:00:29.87
8 Andreas Leknessund (Norway) 0:00:32.30
9 Nik Cemazar (Slovenia) 0:00:35.49
10 Sebastian Berwick (Australia) 0:00:35.93
11 Vojtech Sedlacek (Czech Republic) 0:00:36.97
12 Thymen Arensman (Netherlands) 0:00:39.89
13 Leon Heinschke (Germany) 0:00:40.26
14 Johan Price-Pejtersen (Denmark) 0:00:41.62
15 Ilan Van Wilder (Belgium) 0:00:46.40
16 Richard Holec (Czech Republic) 0:00:47.79
17 Mitchell Wright (Australia) 0:00:48.06
18 Soren Waerenskjold (Norway) 0:00:55.34
19 Fred Wright (Great Britain) 0:00:57.04
20 Shoi Matsuda (Japan) 0:00:58.55
21 Sebastien Grignard (Belgium) 0:00:58.64
22 Mauro Schmid (Switzerland) 0:01:07.77
23 Veljko Stojnic (Serbia) 0:01:08.13
24 Kendrick Boots (United States Of America) 0:01:13.81
25 Gleb Brussenskiy (Kazakhstan) 0:01:15.70
26 Oscar Elworthy (New Zealand) 0:01:20.14
27 Tobias Bayer (Austria) 0:01:28.57
28 Charles-Etienne Chretien (Canada) 0:01:30.91
29 Dzianis Mazur (Belarus) 0:01:31.36
30 Xeno Young (Ireland) 0:01:34.63
31 Damian Papierski (Poland) 0:01:37.28
32 Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kazakhstan) 0:01:37.85
33 Samuele Manfredi (Italy) 0:01:40.90
34 Riley Sheehan (United States Of America) 0:01:41.30
35 Ben Hamilton (New Zealand) 0:01:44.36
36 Nikita Martynov (Russian Federation) 0:01:46.45
37 Florentin Lecamus Lambert (France) 0:01:48.36
38 Mario Gamper (Austria) 0:01:51.08
39 Guillermo Garcia Janiero (Spain) 0:01:51.36
40 Valere Thiebaud (Switzerland) 0:01:51.53
41 Daniil Nikulin (Ukraine) 0:01:51.69
42 Romas Zubrickas (Lithuania) 0:01:52.34
43 Luka Sagadin (Slovenia) 0:01:52.54
44 Victor Alejandro Ocampo Giraldo (Colombia) 0:01:55.51
45 Ben Walsh (Ireland) 0:01:56.66
46 Kristers Ansons (Latvia) 0:01:59.55
47 Olav Hjemsaeter (Norway) 0:02:03.99
48 Jason Oosthuizen (South Africa) 0:02:07.82
49 Alexis Renard (France) 0:02:09.30
50 Gleb Kugaevski (Russian Federation) 0:02:09.73
51 Hamza Mansouri (Algeria) 0:02:10.00
52 Linus Kvist (Sweden) 0:02:26.78
53 Kaden Hopkins (Bermuda) 0:02:27.42
54 Arthur Kluckers (Luxembourg) 0:02:29.59
55 Daniil Turuk (Belarus) 0:02:39.79
56 Thanakhan Chaiyasombat (Thailand) 0:02:46.76
57 Matthew Oliveira (Bermuda) 0:02:52.18
58 Christoffer Wall (Sweden) 0:02:54.03
59 Jose Eduardo Autran Carrillo (Chile) 0:02:57.88
60 Kestutis Vaitaitis (Lithuania) 0:02:58.51
61 Valentin Vasiloiu (Romania) 0:02:58.96
62 Graydon Staples (Canada) 0:03:01.55
63 Ivan Orlov (Azerbaijan) 0:03:10.30
64 Fernando Islas Lopez (Mexico) 0:03:20.78
65 Dylan Redy (Mauritius) 0:03:30.68
66 Ryan Terry (South Africa) 0:03:43.41
67 Alaeddine Cherhabil (Algeria) 0:03:44.35
68 Melki Mohamed Aziz (Tunisia) 0:03:46.02
69 Abdellah Loukili (Morocco) 0:03:46.30
70 Kiflom Gebreselassie (Ethiopia) 0:03:46.61
71 Charl Du Plooy (Namibia) 0:04:00.42
72 Aymen Merdj (Algeria) 0:04:11.28
73 Mohammed Medrazi (Morocco) 0:04:14.02
74 Mohamed Rayes (Syrian Arab Republic) 0:04:16.04
75 Schalk Van Der Merwe (Namibia) 0:04:17.47
76 Mikayil Safarli (Azerbaijan) 0:05:18.10
77 Stephen Alberto Belle (Seychelles) 0:05:44.69
78 Wachirawit Saenkhamwong (Thailand) 0:06:19.53