Road World Championships: Benjamín Noval delivers gold medal for Spain in junior men's time trial
Spain’s Benjamin Noval paced his rhythm perfectly on the twisty course in Montreal to take the victory in the junior men time trial at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships, beating Belgium’s Vic de Smet by six seconds.
The 17-year-old, already one of the top junior prospects in the world, controlled his pace in the first section, three seconds off the fastest time at the first split, but then upped the pace on the flat middle section and was able to get out of the saddle to sprint on the final wall to the finish line that had flummoxed multiple riders before him. Noval averaged 48.2kph on the 20.3km course.
Faster after six kilometres, De Smet lost time to Noval, 10 seconds down by the second check after 14.5km, and though he was able to gain some time back, the 17-year-old stayed in his aero position all the way to the finish line, to stop the clock at 25:23 for the silver medal.
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Denmark’s Malthe Risbjerg, 18, also gained time in the second half of the course, finishing with a time of 25:34, 16 seconds from the winning time, and claimed the bronze medal.
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Results
Rank
Name
Time
1
Benjamin Noval (Spain)
25:17.35
2
Vic de Smet (Belgium)
0:00:06
3
Malthe Risbjerg (Denmark)
0:00:17
4
Julius Birkedal (Denmark)
0:00:21
5
Patrik Pezzo Rosola (Italy)
0:00:21
6
Antoine Salamin (Switzerland)
0:00:39
7
Sindre Orholm-Lonseth (Norway)
0:00:43
8
Lancelot Gayant (France)
0:00:48
9
Leon Atkins (Great Britain)
0:00:49
10
Mads Furenes (Norway)
0:00:53
11
Gijs Winters (Netherlands)
0:00:55
12
Enzo Hincapie (United States)
0:00:56
13
Kashus Adamski (United States)
0:00:57
14
Niklas Wiesmayr (Austria)
0:00:59
15
Thijs Wiersma (Netherlands)
0:01:00
16
Owen Kings (Germany)
0:01:04
17
Andre Free (New Zealand)
0:01:07
18
Vanja Kuntarič Žibert (Slovenia)
0:01:08
19
Timotej Michalik (Slovakia)
0:01:09
20
Raul Lopez (Spain)
0:01:13
21
Alistair Forsyth (Australia)
0:01:14
22
Jose Rodriguez (Mexico)
0:01:15
23
Andrea Tarallo (Italy)
0:01:15
24
Daniel Kuběna (Czechia)
0:01:19
25
Zachari Moreau (Canada)
0:01:32
26
Lachlan Stewart (Australia)
0:01:35
26
Gal Stare (Slovenia)
0:01:35
28
Maximilien Outlet (Luxembourg)
0:01:38
29
Luan Elsasser (Germany)
0:01:39
30
Rodrigo Jesus (Portugal)
0:01:44
31
Dean Woolley (South Africa)
0:01:44
32
Marwan Barhoumi (Switzerland)
0:01:45
33
Goncalo Costa (Portugal)
0:01:46
34
Tristan Hardy (Mauritius)
0:01:48
35
Alex Botha (New Zealand)
0:01:50
36
Evander Wishart (Great Britain)
0:01:50
37
Mikołaj Legieć (Poland)
0:01:51
38
Ollie Jirovec (Australia)
0:01:53
39
Jose Manuel Posada (Colombia)
0:02:00
40
Gleb Novikov (Kazakhstan)
0:02:01
41
Takumi Matsumura (Japan)
0:02:06
42
Bruno da Silva (Brazil)
0:02:07
43
Matas Kubilius (Lithuania)
0:02:08
44
Selmane Mansouri (Algeria)
0:02:11
45
Igor Mitoraj (Poland)
0:02:21
46
Freddie Winkley (Ireland)
0:02:22
47
Pavel Podluzhnyy (Kazakhstan)
0:02:23
48
Milan Husenica (Slovakia)
0:02:29
49
Rohnan Nicholson (Zimbabwe)
0:02:35
50
Carter Deveer (Canada)
0:02:36
51
Adrian Solis (Nicaragua)
0:02:41
52
McCRYSTAL Rian (Ireland)
0:02:43
53
Juan Esteban Sanchez (Colombia)
0:02:55
54
Omar Andrade (Mexico)
0:02:55
55
Hussain Alsafr (Saudi Arabia)
0:03:18
56
Juliano Ndriamanampy (Mauritius)
0:03:45
57
Brian Ishimwe (Rwanda)
0:03:48
58
Chung Ming Yau (Hong Kong)
0:03:52
59
Ryan Thompson (Cayman Islands)
0:03:56
60
Ege Erulku (Turkey)
0:04:06
61
So Tanaka (Japan)
0:04:12
62
Benjamin Perez (Chile)
0:04:17
63
Andersson Ajpacaja (Guatemala)
0:04:20
64
Pacifique Byusa (Rwanda)
0:04:36
65
Gokturk Yuzerler (Turkey)
0:04:44
66
Jaime Carreno (Chile)
0:05:16
67
Carlos Alexander Kee-Tui (Zimbabwe)
0:05:36
68
Jamaal Tablada (Belize)
0:06:03
69
Keith Enwright Jr (Belize)
0:06:20
SOURCE: CyclingNews(go to source) AUTHOR: Lyne Lamoureux All copyrights for this article, including images, are reserved to the original source and/or creator(s).
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