The American Chloe Dygert, gold in this test in 2019, won the individual time trial en route of the ‘Super World Cup’ of cycling that is taking place in the Scottish town of Glasgow (United Kingdom), a 36.2 km race in the that the rest of the main favorites failed and in which the winner won with a time of 46 minutes and 59 seconds.
The American devastated all her rivals except the Australian Grace Brown, who, after riding for the entire race at a certain distance, always second by between 17 and 30 seconds, almost beat Indiana on the tremendous final ramp, which she ended up enjoying of the title by just five seconds.
Dygert, who confessed after the race that she had doubts about participating because she didn’t know if she was going to feel well, came out of the first ranks and spent a good part of the development of the test in the seat reserved for the first classified, which she did not leave until that he had to move to the podium.
In that drawer with the chosen ones, surprisingly, the American and the Australian were accompanied by the Austrian Christina Schweinberger, winner by just three seconds in the fight for bronze with the British Anna Henderson, 1.12 behind the gold. At times, the French Juliette Labous seemed to get into the fight, who finished 1.22 behind the gold and 10 seconds behind the bronze.
One of the moments of the race, together with the arrival of Dygert and Brown, was when the main favourite, the Swiss Marlen Reusser, medalist in the last three CRI World Championships and current Olympic runner-up in the specialty, although without any gold, threw foot on the ground seeing that it was not going as I wanted and the time that I had already lost halfway through. Reusser left when she had 24 minutes of effort.
The Dutch were not where they were expected either. Especially Riejanne Markus, a candidate for everything and in the end ninth, 2.07 behind the winner. The great dominator of the road season, Demi Vollering, who is not a specialist, behaved better. The recent Tour de France winner finished sixth, 1.27 behind Dygert and 15 seconds off the podium.
It was also very remarkable that the American veteran Amber Neven, 48, finished eighth, less than two minutes -1.51- behind the winner.
In line with expectations were the Spanish Sandra Alonso and Sara Martín, finally in positions 42 and 43 among 86 participants, 5.35 and 5.40 behind Dygert. The Colombian Diana Carolina Peñuela behaved somewhat better, who finished in 37th place, 4.43 behind the winner.
