Dygert stays safe within the scorching seat for now, as rider after rider crosses the road nowhere close to her time. However Britain’s Anna Henderson’s time 25 seconds slower at checkpoint 1 (km 12.6) and lately 2nd absolute best in the back of the American is a reminder that there are a large number of giant names nonetheless to pass that uphill end line in Stirling.
Excursion de France Femmes winner Demi Vollering rolls down the beginning ramp. She’s were given former International TT Champion and Dutch compatriot Anna van der Breggen directing from the staff automotive. May just this be some other probability to rack up some other main good fortune in what is already been a dream 12 months?
One of the crucial best favourites lately that would but topple Dygert’s time is Switzerland’s Marlen Reusser, winner of the Excursion de France Femmes ultimate time trial in Pau. You’ll learn her pre-TT ideas on this article right here via CN colleague Laura Weislo.
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2021 British TT Champion Anna Henderson rolls down the beginning ramp. Simply 25 starters of the 86 left now.
And here is a shot of Dygert en path to the highest of the chief board lately.
Dygert units a vastly spectacular time of 46:59, a large 2:29 up on earlier absolute best Bujak.Â
Dygert thunders up the 700 metre climb against the end, the primary phase easy, the second one phase cobbled. Already an Person Pursuit gold medallist, this efficiency may just set her up for a best consequence at the street.
Dygert continues to provoke significantly in this route: she’s 2:18 up on Bujak at checkpoint 3. Barring a whole crisis, a brand new provisional absolute best is all however positive on the end in a couple of mins’ time.
Eugenia Bujak (Slovenia) stops the clock virtually 4 mins forward of Henttala, with a time of 49:28.
Henttala crosses the road to clock the primary time of 53:23.
Lotta Henttala of Finland in short loses keep watch over of her motorcycle and all however falls at the cobbled upward push into Stirling. She’s controlled to regain keep watch over however it is obviously an overly tricky finale to take care of after the former 35 kilometres.
After that superb Checkpoint 2 time Dygert is getting much more of a morale spice up as she powers previous on Olga Zabelinskaya (Uzbekistan), who began 2:30 forward.
And similar to that, Dygert clocks a surprising provisional absolute best at Checkpoint 2, 1:35 up on Bujak.
Bujak continues to carry the highest spot at Checkpoint 2 (km 23.1) via just about a minute over Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Denmark) however it continues to be observed what Dygert can do after her shocking provisional absolute best at Checkpoint 1.
And Chloe Dygert has simply smashed that absolute best time of Bujak’s at Checkpoint 1, with the previous International Champion clocking a time of 14:27.
3 times Slovenian Person TT Champ Eugenia Bujak is lately clocking the most productive time on the opening checkpoint after 12.9 kilometres: 15:22.
And this is a picture of Spain’s Sara Martin out at the route lately.Â
Previous lately in Scotland there was once the Highway International Championships Junior Girls’s Person TT. A hyperlink to our complete document right here:
International Championships: Felicity Wilson-Haffenden wins junior ladies’s time trialÂ
TV photographs display Chloe Dygert 2019 International TT Champion and present US Nationwide TT champion (for a 2nd time) is ready to start out in about ten mins’ time. She’ll be the primary giant favorite to move onto the route this afternoon.
One key ame ntoday is Excursion de France Femmes winner Demi Vollering. You’ll learn her pre-Worlds TT ideas and research right here on this article via Cyclingnews colleague Laura Weislo.
Vollering hoping 3rd time’s a attraction towards Reusser in Worlds time trial
Listed here are the distances for the 3 intermediate checkpoints. The primary two supply indications of ways the riders are dealing with the outlet, flatter segment, the 3rd is the important thing indication of ways they are dealing with the hillier ultimate segment.
Get started: km 0
Checkpoint 1: km 12.6
Checkpoint 2:km 23.1
Checkpoint 3: km 31.8
End: km 36.2
And below cloudy skies, Arefa Amini of Afghanistan heads down the beginning ramp and away. The Highway International Championships Elite Girls’s Person Time Trial has formally begun.
You’ll discover a complete startlist and start-times within the hyperlink underneath:
International Championships Girls’s Elite Time Trial 2023 birth instances and startlist
One pre-race standout reality is that the International Time Trial Champion for 2022, 2021 and 2013 Ellen van Dijk, in addition to the 2020 Champion Anna van der Breggen and 2018 and 2017 Champion Annemiek van Vleuten, all from Holland are all lacking from the startlist this 12 months. Cue one energy vacuum to be stuffed, most likely, despite the fact that 2019 Champion Chloe Dygert and 2016/2008 Champion Amber Neben are each racing for america right here in Stirling.
The 86 riders will all go away at 75 2nd periods. First off is Arefa Amini of Afghanistan.
Racing will get underway at 1355 native time, just below part an hour from now, on a 36.2 kilometre route with a flat first two thirds and a miles more difficult 2nd phase, culminating in a troublesome ascent to the end previous Stirling Citadel.
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