Gall wins junior men's world championship road race

Published September 26, 2015 01:12PM

Austria’s Felix Gall came out on top in a rainy junior men’s road race in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday. The 17-year-old powered away from a small lead group in the lumpy finale, at the end of a 128.9km race. Gall’s advantage just barely held out over a chasing Clement Betouigt-Suire of France and Dane Rasmus Pedersen, who came home second and third, respectively. The trio finished 10 seconds ahead of a small group that fought for minor placings.

Top-10 results

Although it was a rainy morning in Richmond, American Adrien Costa said it didn’t affect the race too significantly. “The normal road parts weren’t bad actually, I was able to make up a lot of ground in the corners, because us Americans, we’re used to the big wide sweeping crit corners. And then on Libby Hill there were a few times where my back wheel would kind of fish tail around.”

Costa, coming off a silver-medal performance in the junior time trial championship, was among the favorites to contend in the road race as well. Things were looking good for the 17-year-old from Bend, Oregon heading into the waning moments of the race, but the legs just weren’t there in the end.

“I was trying to attack early to break things up,” Costa said. “I wasn’t feeling super good all race: I think with the time trial I still wasn’t able to recover super well. I don’t know, I guess we had lots of bad luck with my teammates, I’m not sure what happened. I know Ethan [Reynolds] went down and there were mechanicals and stuff.

“I was kind of isolated so I decided to see what I could do at the end and not waste energy early. A lot of teams had three or four guys still in the front group so it was hard for me to do much. I led up Libby Hill in the last lap with a group up the road and then up 23rd street I kind of fell back, I don’t know. I just didn’t have the legs.”

As the exhausted field trickled across the line bit by bit after Gall and Betouigt-Suire, Costa ultimately came home 18th, making him the highest-placed American in the event.

The way the final few kilometers broke up the juniors’ peloton, Costa expects something similar in the men’s elite race Sunday.

“It’ll be interesting,” he said. “Especially depending on the weather. I definitely think it’ll blow up because the race is twice as long as ours. It’ll be interesting to watch for sure.”

Full results

1. Felix Gall, Austria, in 3:11:09

2. Clement Betouigt-suire, France, at :00

3. Rasmus Pedersen, Denmark, at :01

4. Reto Muller, Switzerland, at :10

5. Martin Salomon, Germany, at :10

6. Nicola Conci, Italy, at :10

7. Mathias Norsgaard, Denmark, at :13

8. Nathan Draper, Great Britain, at :13

9. Marc Hirschi, Switzerland, at :13

10. Pit Leyder, Luxembourg, at :20

11. Thomas Vereecken, Belgium, at :21

12. Alexys Brunel, France, at :23

13. Anthon Charmig, Denmark, at :26

14. Max Kanter, Germany, at :36

15. Matteo Sobrero, Italy, at :36

16. Michael Storer, Australia, at :36

17. Gino Mader, Switzerland, at :36

18. Adrien Costa, United States Of America, at :36

19. Joey Walker, Great Britain, at :36

20. Kevin Geniets, Luxembourg, at :36

21. Jaka Primozic, Slovenia, at :39

22. Bjorg Lambrecht, Belgium, at :45

23. Tanguy Turgis, France, at :45

24. Nils Eekhoff, Netherlands, at :45

25. Marcel Neuhauser, Austria, at :45

26. Vadim Pronskiy, Kazakhstan, at :45

27. Keagan Girdlestone, South Africa, at :45

28. Leo Appelt, Germany, at :45

29. Dusan Rajovic, Serbia, at :45

30. Patrick Haller, Germany, at :45

31. Alexandr Kulikovskiy, Russian Federation, at :45

32. Mario Spengler, Switzerland, at :45

33. Andre Carvalho, Portugal, at :45

34. Enn VagaKristo, Estonia, at :45

35. Robin Froidevaux, Switzerland, at :45

36. Markus Wildauer, Austria, at :54

37. Jasper Philipsen, Belgium, at :54

38. Luis Villalobos, Mexico, at :58

39. Horst Dennis VanDer, Netherlands, at 1:00

40. Stefan Bissegger, Switzerland, at 1:00

41. Michael O’loughlin, Ireland, at 1:04

42. Gorazd Per, Slovenia, at 1:07

43. Patrick LaukKarl, Estonia, at 1:09

44. Alejandro Gomiz, Spain, at 1:12

45. Derek Gee, Canada, at 1:12

46. Luc Wirtgen, Luxembourg, at 1:12

47. Jakub Otruba, Czech Republic, at 1:12

48. Jhonnatan Manuel NarvaezPrado, Ecuador, at 1:12

49. Robbe Ghys, Belgium, at 1:12

50. Max Singer, Germany, at 1:12

51. Jorge Magalhaes, Portugal, at 1:12

52. Pascal Eenkhoorn, Netherlands, at 1:12

53. Georg Zimmerman, Germany, at 1:12

54. Samuel Jenner, Australia, at 1:19

55. Marco Friedrich, Austria, at 1:25

56. Bram Welten, Netherlands, at 1:27

57. Theo Menant, France, at 1:33

58. Alejandro RegueiroPerez, Spain, at 1:33

59. Alan Banaszek, Poland, at 1:40

60. Sergey Rostovtsev, Russian Federation, at 1:40

61. Riccardo Verza, Italy, at 1:40

62. Christopher Blevins, United States Of America, at 2:05

63. Niklas Larsen, Denmark, at 2:05

64. Louis Louvet, France, at 2:12

65. Aleksander Borisov, Russian Federation, at 2:18

66. Robert Stannard, New Zealand, at 2:30

67. Pablo Alonso, Spain, at 2:38

68. Stan Dewulf, Belgium, at 3:04

69. Patrick Gamper, Austria, at 3:16

70. Masahiro Ishigami, Japan, at 3:18

71. Daniel Savini, Italy, at 3:25

72. Tommaso Fiaschi, Italy, at 3:25

73. Willem Boersma, Canada, at 3:29

74. Marten Kooistra, Netherlands, at 3:32

75. Szymon Sajnok, Poland, at 3:34

76. Aaron Verwilst, Belgium, at 3:34

77. Torjus Sleen, Norway, at 3:39

78. Kristian RudlandHans, Norway, at 3:39

79. Lars Saugstad, Norway, at 4:29

80. Petter Fagerhaug, Norway, at 4:29

81. Simm Kiskonen, Estonia, at 5:17

82. David Gabor D.Kovacs, Hungary, at 5:17

83. Tobias Foss, Norway, at 5:26

84. Samuel Oros, Slovakia, at 6:07

85. Martin Spudil, Czech Republic, at 6:33

86. Vitor Schizzi, Brazil, at 6:51

87. Julian Cardona, Colombia, at 6:52

88. Jack Maddux, United States Of America, at 7:16

89. Adam Stenson, Ireland, at 7:25

90. Vincent Andersson, Sweden, at 7:33

91. Tiago DaSilva, Luxembourg, at 11:43

92. Mehdi ChokriEl, Morocco, at 12:30

93. Keitaro Sawada, Japan, at 12:30

94. Barnabas Peak, Hungary, at 15:59

95. Adrian Bustamante, Colombia, at 16:01

96. Javier Montoya, Colombia, at 16:01

97. Itamar Einhorn, Israel, at 16:08

98. Adrian Foltan, Slovakia, at 16:19

99. Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev, Kazakhstan, at 16:32

100. Erik Sierra, Ecuador, at 16:33

101. Melvin Daniel BoronRabinal, Guatemala, at 16:33

102. Mohcine ElKouraji, Morocco, at 16:33

103. Oussama Mansouri, Algeria, at 16:36

104. Joel Taylor, Canada, at 16:48

105. Erik Sandersson, Sweden, at 17:09

106. Daniel Viegas, Portugal, at 18:14

107. Joao Almeida, Portugal, at 18:14

108. Antonio Barac, Bosnia And Herzegovina, at 19:08

109. Patompob Phonarjthan, Thailand, at 19:18

110. Ethan Reynolds, United States Of America, at 19:41

111. Jonathan Brown, United States Of America, at 19:41

112. Jake Gray, Ireland, at 19:41

113. Yuttana Mano, Thailand, at 19:41

114. Islam Mansouri, Algeria, at 21:04

DNF Nicolas Nesi, Italy

DNF Denis Nekrasov, Russian Federation

DNF Brandon Mcnulty, United States Of America

DNF Simon Tuomey, Ireland

DNF Nikita Sokolov, Kazakhstan

DNF James Fouche, New Zealand

DNF Amine Belabessi, Algeria

DNF Alexandros Agrotis, Cyprus

DNF Bryan Mendoza, El Salvador

DNF Fredy Orlando TocXon, Guatemala

DNF Joe Holt, Great Britain

DNF Saar Hershler, Israel

DNF Adam Roberge, Canada

DNF Nikolay Ilichev, Russian Federation

DNF Andreas Stokbro, Denmark

DNF Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia

DNF Michal Brazda, Czech Republic

DNF Norbert Banaszek, Poland

DNF Juraj Michalicka, Slovakia

DNF Kanan Gahramanli, Azerbaijan

DNF Gustaf Andersson, Sweden

DNF Dmitriy Ponkratov, Uzbekistan

DNF Tarlan Mammadov, Azerbaijan

DNF Ogly Gunyaidin KhajiDursun, Kazakhstan

DNF Kotaro Ono, Japan

DNF Santiago YeriMingo, Argentina

DNF Ilya Gorbushin, Kazakhstan

DNF Kyle DeWet, South Africa

DNF Ayumu Watanabe, Japan

DNF Jarno Mobach, Netherlands

DNF Bryan Portilla, Ecuador

DNF Jarrod Hattingh, South Africa

DNF Erik Relanto, Finland

DNF Damian Slawek, Poland

DNF Dawid Gieracki, Poland

DNF Marcio OliveiraFilho, Brazil

DNF Tegsh-bayar Batsaikhan, Mongolia

DNF Mario Rojas, Costa Rica

DNF Pavel Sivakov, Russian Federation

DNF Mathieu Burgaudeau, France

DNF Toms GavarsEriks, Latvia

DNF Darragh O’mahoney, Ireland

DNF Pedro Martins, Brazil

DNF Harry Sweeny, Australia

DNF Ahulee Rivera, Puerto Rico

DNF Jern-e ChuaMerrill, Singapore

DNF Ziga Jerman, Slovenia

DNF Sam Dobbs, New Zealand

DNF Michel Ries, Luxembourg

DNF Musa Mikayilzade, Azerbaijan

DNS Jaakko Hanninen, Finland