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Mads Pedersen wins the world championship (picture Alex Broadway, SWPix.com).JPGDenmark's Mads Pedersen wins the rainbow jersey
Mads Pedersen of Denmark is the new men’s road world champion after a rainswept race and shortened race in Yorkshire today.
Overnight rain meant that the route was altered to miss out the Buttertubs and Grinton Moor climbs on safety grounds.
The change of route, which shortened the race to 260 kilometres, meant that the selection that produced the riders who fought it out for the win came late on, with two and a half laps of the closing circuit in Harrogate remaining.
The five riders who got away included Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands, many people’s pick for the win today, but he was dropped with 12.5 kilometres left.
The group also included two Italian riders, Gianni Moscon, who was working for Matteo Trentin, and the Swiss rider Stefan Kung.
Moscon was tailed off with three and a half kilometres remaining, and Trentin seemed on his way to winning the rainbow jersey.
The Italian launched his sprint a couple of hundred metres from the line, but Pedersen responded to win convincingly, Trentin taking silver and Kung completing the podium.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Another young'un, 2019 is truly heralding a year of change, out with the old, in with the new.
Prudential year 2 saw worse conditions- we road in a hurricane
Chapeau to all those who finished, truly tough conditions.
Well done to the winner who wanted it more than the others
Brilliant to have a non-champion be World Champion after a year of *ahem* Valverde
Yorkshire Tea was needed for all after that!
Bit disappointed the chase never really got going. Peloton shot itself in the foot?
I think there were so many favourites left that nobody wanted to drag their rivals to the line, so they all chose to lose out.
Fair play to Sagan for giving it a try, just a little too late.
Fair play there. Truly shit conditions, well earned. Chapeau.