2021 World Championships Women TT Results & Recap
2021 World Championships Women TT is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Van Dijk wins TT world championships
Ellen Van Dijk (Netherlands) stormed to first place at the elite time trial championships today, clocking a 36:05 on a flat and fast 30.3km course. The Dutch rider beat our Marlen Ruesser (Switzerland) by 11 seconds for the title, and Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) took third, 24 seconds behind.
"It's been a dream for so long to get that world title again. This year everything felt so good, but there was always this Marlen Reusser who was so strong this year. I knew that I had a really good level but I also knew that she was super, super strong," Van Dijk said.
"In the last couple of weeks, she beat me in every time trial, and I knew it would become super difficult and that I would have to ride the best-ever time trial. It was good that I had no idea if it was good enough because I started one hour earlier than the favourites. [Reusser] had a faster intermediate time [check points], and I thought she would be faster, and in the end, I saw that she lost some seconds. I can't quite believe it yet. It's been a dream for so long."
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