Cycling: Victor Campenaerts (LottoNL-Jumbo) secured the gold medal in the time trial at the European Championships in Herning. The Belgian finished two seconds faster than Pole Maciej Bodnar (Bora-hansgrohe) and four seconds ahead of Irishman Ryan Mullen (Cannondale-Drapac). Austria's Matthias Brändle (Trek-Segafredo) takes the thankless fourth place. The best German was Marco Mathis (Katusha-Alpecin) in eighth place.
After silver, Victor Campenaerts also won gold at the European Championships
After last year's individual time trial, Victor Campenaerts didn't feel like laughing. At that time he was defeated by the Spaniard Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar) and won silver. Last year's winner did not compete this year, so Victor Campenaerts was automatically one of the favourites. He really lived up to that role. On the 46-kilometre route he just left Maciej Bodnar behind, who at least won the Tour de France time trial a few days ago. Irishman Ryan Mullen secured bronze ahead of Austrian Matthias Brändle. Jos Van Emden (LottoNL-Jumbo) was surprisingly unsuccessful, but perhaps the Dutchman is a little happy about his teammate's success. We don't want to hide the good result of the two young German starters. Marco Mathis (Katusha-Alpecin) was eighth, Dominic Weinstein (Rad-Net Rose Team) was 14th.
