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Now the Maltese rider, Jessica Pratt. The 26-year-old rolls off the start ramp and gets going on her ride. She dominated the Tour of Malta this year and is in good form. Back to the ramp and it is Viktoriya Sidorenko of Azerbaijan who is in the U23 category.
Eyeru Gebru riding for the Refugee team but from Ethiopia starts her ride. It is a very peasant day in Gossau today as the riders head to Zurich. Temperature at 17 degrees centigrade with hazy sunshine.
First rider off the ramp
Despite trying to shift the focus onto other favourites, Lotte Kopecky comes into this as one of the stand out favourites to take rainbows.
The Dutch dominance is not really expected to continue today. However, it is not out of the question with Ellen van Dijk and GC superstar Demi Vollering on the startlist.
Since 2016 the women’s individual time trial has been won by two nations. The USA and the Netherlands. Every rider except two in that list had won it twice in that time frame.
Grace Brown finished the last two World Championship time trials in silver. However, with her gold medal at the Olympics and the end of her career in sight, she will be really prepared and maybe even confident coming into this race…
If Ellen van Dijk wins today she will go level on wins with the great Jeannie Longo with four victories. It would be quite the astonishing change of form but never out of the question when Van Dijk is involved.
And finally, a general overview of what’s to come this week…
Here are all the riders starting today and their start times. 70 riders are taking to the start ramp in Gossau…
The new European ITT champion has tipped the defending champion to take victory today…
Starting the day off with the news room and all the latest Worlds chat…
It is time trial day in Switzerland and the riders are ready to battle against the clock. Starting the day with the women’s elite and U23 race followed by the elite men with the U23 men coming tomorrow.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the elite women’s time trial at the 2024 Road World Championships in Zürich.