2010 Junior World Championships - 5th - 8th August
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 4, 2010 6:53 PM EDT
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What do Nicole Cooke, Roman Kreuziger, Fabian Cancellara, Marianne Vos, Greg Le Mond , Eleonora Patuzzo, Jurgen Van Den Broek and Taylor Phinney all have in common? (Apart from the fact they all ride bikes...) They're all former Junior Road World Champions!
This year we're in Offida in Italy - will we find the champions of the future on the roads? Follow me below the jump, and I'll tell you about the races!
The Junior World Champs are open to riders born in 1992 and 1993, and the website has lots of useful info, including links to videos and the like - but for your delectation and delight, I've borrowed the race profiles for you here:
Road Race: Sunday 8th August - 10am CEST, women; 14:00 CEST men
The startlists for the races are here for the men and here for the women. What do we know about them? I've got to say not much, but I bet you know more...
Belgium's Jasper Stuyven is the reigning Junior champion on the men's side, and he's back for more this year. Since last year he's riding for Avia, and won Le Pavé de Roubaix, the Junior version of Paris-Roubaix (you can see the full results here). He'll be riding alongside Mike de Bie, the '09 Novice ITT Champion. My thanks to my friend gs on the Belgian-based knowledge!
Denmark are sending Lasse Norman Hansen, who placed 8th in this year's Track World Championships in the Individual Pursuit, and won the Junior Tour de Pays de Vaud in Switzerland this year.
European Junior Road Race Champ Blaz Bogataj is riding for Slovenia, with a huge team - and bronze medallist Rafael Reis will be riding for Portugal. Junior Euro TT Champ Kirill Yatsevich rides for Russia, French silver medallist Emilien Viennet and bronze medallist Marlen Zmorka for Ukraine are also riding.
Junior Men's ITT: Friday 6th August, 14:00 CEST
Among the women, reigning Champ Rossella Callovi is now too old - but last year's silver and bronze medallists Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Susanna Zorzi will doubtless want to improve their results. Ferrand-Prevot was also the Junior MTB Cross-Country World Champion in '09 & won bronze this year - and she came 2nd in the Junior Road Race & ITT in the European Championships - will she be France's next Jeannie Longo? Zorzi is the current Italian Junior Champion on the road & ITT - and the Italians have a great team, including European Junior Road Race champion Anna Trevisi and bronze medallist Rossella Ratto.
Mind you, the competition will be stiff. Team USA took a junior team to the Tour Féminin en Limousin as preparation for this, and their star rider Coryn Rivera came 3rd in stage 3 on junior gears, and 22nd overall - and she came 19th overall in Gracia-Orlova. She's had 5 USA National Junior Champions across Road, Track and 'Cross, and rides for Peanut Butter& Co TWENTY12 - so if she wins this, we might get to see an epic rainbow-monkey jersey combo.
I don't know that much about the other riders - except for part 198 in my ongoing "I have no idea what British Cycling are THINKING!!!" series, I can't believe that there's only 1 Junior rider worth supporting in the whole of the UK - and even then only for the ITT? Laura Trott won the Junior Omloop van Borsele stage race (Team GB won the team classification, so it's not like there aren't lots of talented Juniors around...). Mind you, the Lithuanian Cycling Factory seems to have run out of parts, as they're sending no riders on either the women's or the men's side....
I'd not be at all surprised if the Dutch Hegemony extends to the Juniors too - Annelies Visser has been in the top 10 of a load of Dutch day races (but there are 100s, so I'm not sure what that means). And Australia are always fun to watch, with Stephanie Hansen, their u19 Road Race champ and Jessica Allen, last year's Aussie u19 ITT Champion.
Junior women's ITT: Friday 6th August, 11:00 CEST
So, I bet you lot know an awful lot more about who to watch on all fronts - so please share it in the comments. And if anyone sees results, videos, pictures, news, and any other miscelleny, add away!
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Lawson Craddock!!
That is all.
"Good thing I never said out loud that I was pulling for France, before this all started." -Mark Blacknell
by Chris Fontecchio on Aug 4, 2010 7:21 PM EDT reply actions
Indeed . . .
Already has a second in a Junior Worlds TT to his credit a couple of years ago . . .
But both he and Stuyven will be pretty heavily marked in the RR
how's his climbing?
I assume that no amount of marking will matter if he can accelerate away on that last hill.
"Good thing I never said out loud that I was pulling for France, before this all started." -Mark Blacknell
by Chris Fontecchio on Aug 4, 2010 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Ok . . . he hasn't raced much in Texas since 2008
when he won the Fort Davis hillclimb as a Cat3 when he was 15 . . .
There have been one or two rumours that British Cycling aren't quite as flush as they were.
They’re meant to be sending a much reduced back up team to Australia for the senior worlds, though if we do have only three riders then that’s probably fair enough.
& I suspect there also may be some pressure from UK Sport to set a higher threshold for sending athletes to international events. They’ve certainly put a lot of pressure on athletics to do this. Although only sending one rider is pathetic, we’re only sending three in the mens. Not many at all, compared with other countries. & we’re sending no one for the men’s TT, which for country with a reasonable TTing history is rubbish, frankly.
Lastly, I don’t know whether it’s a requirement that funding has to be spent on riders in the Olympic Development Programme or not, but it seems to be BC policy. There are only four women in the Endurance Programme: Laura Trott, Harriet Owen, Ruby Miller & Emma Grant. Owen & Trott are also going to the junior track worlds a few days later; maybe the other two aren’t the right age?
On the men’s team, it’s curious that Dan McLay & Sam Harrison, who finished 2nd & 7th behind Stuyven at the Junior Roubaix are only riding the track worlds & not the road race. Perhaps the lesson here is that “Olympic” funding isn’t all that great for road racing, where – unlike track – it’s very difficult to be confident of results?
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
Hmmm, if they're going for Olympics
they’re better off spending the £ on the girls, no? I mean, realistically, if they only supported 1 team for the Worlds this year, and the 2012 course isn’t pancake flat….
Plus, if £ is an issue, why send a team to the Borsele stage race rather than the Junior Worlds? That’s an odd prioritisation.
And if £ is an issue, why the hell are the BC facilities supporting Sky free of charge?? There’s an equally valid argument to say if resources are limited, they should be spent on helping riders of both genders get to pro teams, where they have all the coaching, health etc support they need…. bah!
(I’m not questioning you, I’m ranting aloud!)
They kicked out about 2/3rds of their cyclists, IIRC, last year. But here’s the thing – it seems like they’ll only take athletes to races who are part of the official programme…. which is strange, because what if the talent is elsewhere?
I don’t understand them at all, these days….
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 5, 2010 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
(Plus, look at some of the countries sending teams)
(I can’t really believe that Belarus/Namibia/Ukraine/Greece etc etc etc having bigger budgets than British Cycling…)
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 5, 2010 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions
The Italians always bring a strong team and will have some firepower this year with riders like
Luca Wackermann. The Dutch have the Rabo Conti. bound duo of Dylan van Baarle and Oscar Riesebeek who should do something in the RR along with Danny van Poppel.
Russia surprisingly didn’t bring the wunderkind Evgeny Shalumov who won the Junior Peace Race and was 2nd overall in the Vuelta a Besaya, a climbing heavy race.
Australia has Jay McCarthy, who has been doing well of late and did well last year too.
Luxembourg might have some hope in the climbing department for the future with a kid named Bob Jungels, who rode away from everybody at Besaya on the first stage. He is my pick to win.
Oh and if everybody is marking Craddock for the USA, Ryan Eastman could have a very nice result at the end of the day. Bound for Trek-Livestrong next year, he is legit.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
Trek-Livestrong seems to be sucking up a lot of the young talent
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
by lieutenantmudd on Aug 5, 2010 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Jasper Stuyven had a bullseye on his back in Roubaix too...
as he was wearing the rainbows at the time, but that didn’t stop him from winning. If you’re strong enough all the marking in the world can’t stop you. And otherwise he can be decoy while Mike de Bie or Frederik Frison get away with the win ;)
Stuyven’s Avia Cycling Team is not a bad start to a career by the way. Amongst their alumni we find
* Nikolas Maes (QST)
* Gianni Meersman (FdJ)
* Dominique Cornu (QST)
* Jan Ghyselinck (HTC)
* Klaas Lodewijck (currently TSV, 2011 OPL)
* Frederick Nolf (RIP)
* Gert Dockx (HTC)
* Ben Hermans (RadioShack)
* Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (stagiaire at QST)
Belgium will have one of the strongest teams for sure...
I’m just wondering how Stuyven will handle the climbs and if that will isolate him because there might be stronger climbers in the field like Jungels and others that could but the hurt on the long climb.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
I really don't know...
All that much about his climbing skills, nor do I know what kind of rider Jungels is. Funny name though.
Rossella Ratto is the most talked about of the Italian girls
but I don’t know if that’s in part because she’s very well connected. She’s a member of the Carmiooro Women’s team (at the moment just a junior team), team manager Monica Lo Verso, otherwise known as Mummy Ratto, team manager Roberto Ratto. Interestingly the Pro-Conti Carmiooro team includes her brothers Daniele Ratto and Enrico Peruffo
(although....
…will we see the Melchers-Van Poppel offspring riding in about 18 years time? That’s a nice set of cycling genes)
(the kid will probably grow up to be a motorway designer)
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 5:54 AM EDT up reply actions
But even so
that page I linked to tells how the girls team nearly fell apart when even after an incredibly successful 2009 (including both junior national champs) their then team decided not to have a junior girls team in 2010, so they wrote a book telling of their experiences, and sales of that helped fund them for this year. Yup, it sounds odd to me too.
Boo! I feel misled! No race today!
;)
Programme:
Fri, Aug 6
11:00 TT girls
14:00 TT boys
Sun, Aug 8
10:00 RR girls
14:00 RR boys
(Times in CEST)
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fb post from Tom Craddock
“Hanging with Lawson and the US Junior Team at the Hotel outside of Offida. Racing starts tommorow. We did Rome is a day. Sistine Chapel, Forum, Collisium, Trevi Fountain and a few cafe dobbios. Whew!!!”
You can't do Rome in a day.
Must be cool for an American junior though.
(same as it would be cool for a European junior to be able to head to the States)
Hopefully...not the best way to be resting before the big day
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
I am wondering myself since Austria has a staggering 12 boys for the RR and Belgium 11 and
countries like Netherlands, Italy, Czech Republic have 10. I didn’t think Austria was quite so high on the junior racing totem pole but it seems to be a mystery.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
No no,
the event is billed as Aug 5-8. The opening ceremony is today..
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Yeah, but I possibly should have added when things are actually happening!
I’ll edit that in! Thanks!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 5, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Dutch girl Laura van der Kamp, listed for the RR on Sunday,
does, or at least did, not race on Sundays for religious reasons. Apparently Worlds is different.
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I wonder how many starters are allowed for each nation & discipline
Can’t check, because the Competitions Guide linked on the UCI website for Road Worlds is the one for Track Worlds.
The listed entries for Holland are:
Girls: 3x TT, 8x RR (3 double starts)
Boys: 3x TT, 10x RR (3 double starts)
But the Dutch cycling assoc announced:
Girls: 2x TT, 4x RR (2 double starts)
Boys: 2x TT (predetermined in June), 6x RR (selected from 7, among which the 2 TT starters)
Funny, in the press release for the boys’ selection (June 22) they say it is announced so early because the coaches want the riders to peak properly, but the girls’ selection is dated July 21 …
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I am wondering myself since Austria has a staggering 12 boys for the RR and Belgium 11 and
countries like Netherlands, Italy, Czech Republic have 10. I didn’t think Austria was quite so high on the junior racing totem pole but it seems to be a mystery.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
They fixed the link!
Rules
Junior Men
The 10 first nations of the last ranking of the previous Nation’s Cup edition will qualify a selection of 12 riders of whom 6 to ride. The next 5 nations will qualify a selection of 10 riders of whom 5 to start and the other next 5 nations will qualify a selection of 8 riders of whom 4 to start. Nations not ranked shall be entitled to enter 6 riders of whom 3 to start. The organizing nation shall be entitled to enter 10 riders of whom 5 to start.
Junior Women
Each National Federation shall be entitled to enter 8 competitors of whom 4 to ride.
And the ranking they used for the boys:
1-10: BEL, NED, FRA, USA, GER, DEN, RUS, AUT, POR, CAN (12 riders of whom 6 to start)
11-15: ITA, CZE, POL, NZL, SLO (10 riders of whom 5 to start)
16-20: BLR, AUS, LAT, SUI, NOR (8 riders of whom 4 to start)
Other nations: 6 riders of whom 3 to start
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Oh fabulous, thankyou!
I wonder when we get to see the final startlists? I suspect it’s when we get the results, if you kow what I mean…
(I love the way there’s always some complicated way to work out the blokes, but for the women they just use a radom number!)
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 5:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Lack of international competition,
hence results to base meaningful rankings on, is no doubt the reason for just the one number for girls. Which is too bad.
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Yeah
Which is why it’s doubly bonkers for countries not to send anyone….
Although it’s the same for the Grown-Up Worlds too, which is less understandable, but still makes life easier. Well, except for the Netherlands – I can’t imagine how they make their choices for the Worlds squad… pick names out of a hat, because they’re all so bloody strong? I was trying to work out who’s essetial to send, ad got up to 10….
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 7:03 AM EDT up reply actions
Girls TT results, thanks to USA coach Manuel Lacambre
1 Solovei
2 Ferrand
3 Cure
4 Trott
5 Zorzi
6 Muffat
7 Visser
8 Kroger
9 Thorsen
10 Rivera
Ha!
Should’ve known you’d get there first!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 6:01 AM EDT up reply actions
RESULTS!
Junior women’s ITT – from Manel Lacambra’s twitter (I love that man, he’s a oe-man cycling media)
1. Canna Solovey, Ukraine
2. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, France
3. Amy Cure, Australia
4. Laura Trott, GB
5. Susana Zorzi, Italy
6. Alexia Muffat, France
7. Annelies Visser, Netherlands
8. Mieke Kroger, Germany
9. Thea Thorsen, Norway
10. Coryn Rivera, USA
My pick for the RR, Bob Jungels, wins the TT by a healthy 27 seconds...Still solid for Craddock though with bronze
1 JUNGELS BOB LUX 40’05.96
2 SÜTTERLIN JASHA GER 27.91
3 CRADDOCK LAWSON USA 28.75
4 PARKER DALE AUS 33.53
5 MCCARTHY JAY AUS 33.63
6 REIS RAFAEL FERREIRA POR 51.88
7 TROSINO MIRKO ITA 1’04.62
8 YATSEVICH KIRILL RUS 1’11.23
9 GONZALEZ SALAS MARIO ESP 1’13.10
10 VALGREN ANDERSEN MICHAEL DEN 1’17.18
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
A Luxembourgoise TT Champion??
Will wonders never cease?? How come a Schleck is the Natioal Champ?
Heh!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Andy tweeted something about the next Fabian Cancellara
And securing the future of cycling in Luxembourg. No pressure there at all.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Aug 6, 2010 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Relative to Andy
most people are the next Cancellara!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Tsk Tsk
Someone in Horizon will never speak to you again. I wonder if that was the party that Albertina wangled her way into?
Heh
I read that and laughed – very funny!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 7, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
It looks like there'll be live coverage of the road race on the website
At least, that’s what the little man with the camera in the top right corner of the website implies, no?
Or am I insane?
It leads to results now, but will it lead to pics?
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 6, 2010 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Quite an elite little group on the last lap
At the end of fourth lap, 8 riders are leaving (2) Ratto Rossella, (5) Zorzi Susanna, (24) Ferrand Prevot, (26) Muffat Alexia, (29) Hofmann Sarah-Lena, (47) Shamanova, (53) Canna Solovei, (57) Rivera Coryn
So it's a rubbish ticker...
but between that and Manel Lacambra’s twitter, it’s better coverage than usual
It’s the end of the 4th lap – 1 more to go – Italy’s Zorzi just attacked out of a break which was her, team-mate Rossella Ratto, France’s Muffat and Ferrand-Prevot, Germany’s Hoffmann, USA’s Coryn Rivera, Russia’s Shamanova & current World Junior ITT champ Canna Solovei
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Manels' twitter
7km to go 10s. Next climb will decide the world champion…
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Tuttobici are updating too
here, but they have the group of seven with a LEAD over Shamanova of 47s
The official ticker meanwhile says:
at head attack of (47) Shamanova, 20" later the other seven riders
Why not give us the winner too?
I’ll go for one of the Italians followed by the French girl Ferrand Prevot
I know!
I say Zorzi, and Ferrand-Prevot too
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Yay! So pleased for her!
After her 2 second places last year, and 2nd in the ITT this year! Plus, how great for French cycling!
Rossella Ratto 2nd
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:41 AM EDT up reply actions
I've seen her name around so often this year
that I hadn’t realised that she was still a junior.
I know, me too
It was only when she was on the podium in Ankara that I realised she was still so young.
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:44 AM EDT up reply actions
CQ Ranking have the 1-2-3
Meanwhile, according to the official ticker
the race is still going on:
Zorzi leaves the head group, followed at 100 metres from Ratto, Ferrand Prevot, Canna Solovei and Rivera.
Ain’t twitter great
Full results for the women's race
1. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, France, 2:31’47
2. Rossella Ratto, Italy, s.t.
3. Coryn Rivera, USA, s.t.
4. Canna Solovei, Ukraine, +2"
5. Susanna Zorzi, Italy, +16"
6. Sarah-Lena Hofmann, Germany, +20"
7. Alexia Muffat, France, +1’15"
8. Kaitlin Antonneau, USA, +2’39"
9. Pauline Godey, France, +2’41"
10. Kendall Ryan, USA, +2’41"
11. Annelies Visser, Netherlands, +2’41
km 46
Seven riders are leaving, and they are: (3) Mike De Bie, (8) Daan Olivier, (29) Thiel Fabian, (41) Nikita Kapralov, (46) Daniel Paulus, (51) Joao Leal, (59) Giacomo Berlato, 24" later the big group..
It's a great day for French racing
Men’s Road Race:
1. Olivier Le Gac (Fra)
2. Jay McCarthy (Aus)
3. Jasper Stuyven (Bel)
If anyone has a way of picking up RAI Sport 2
they have an hour long programme scheduled for 21:30 CET tonight (i.e. in 15 minutes from when I posted this) entitled “Italian Junior Championships” but that may well be coverage of todays Worlds, which is due to be shown again tomorrow at 19:00 CET on Rai Sports 1
RAI coverage is indeed of the worlds, and lots of it
The Australians were straight to the front when the race began, including this girl on the pink Pinarello
But when continuous coverage began, for the last one and a half laps, they were nowhere to be seen. Is this some sort of metaphor for life? By coincidence that was teh point at which the final group of 8 broke away on the steepest climb of the circuit. This girl, Alexia Muffat, did a lot of work on the front for Pauline Ferrand Prevot
The crowds were pretty decent
Susanna Zorzi made her first attack at 10km to go. You can just see her in the distance (it was on a twisty section of the course and the moto couldn’t pass the rest of the group)
The chase behind her wasn’t that organised, but it didn’t need to be as she just died by herself when they reached the main climb.
Here she is about to be caught and passed
Coryn Rivera rode what some would call an intelligent race. Others might say wheelsucking
Zorzi caught up on the descent and attacked again at about 3km to go, but when the road turned uphill again she had no energy left.
The Ukrainian Canna Solovei did a lot of the chasing on the final lap and then led for much of the last km too. I don’t know whether she was hoping to grind the others off her wheel because she can’t sprint, or if she roda a bad race.
Here’s an overhead view of the final sprint. Ferrand Prevot and Ratto were the best on the day, and best supported, by quite a way.
superb, superb, superb!
How exciting! I hope it turns up online at some stage…. LOVE those blurry pics – they make it look SO fast!
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Watching Susanna Zorzi was painful and not fast at all
it won’t show on a still, but at the end she would have struggled to get over a speedbump
Really?
Ratto said her team-mates had killed themselves for her… Poor Zorzi, I was hoping she’s podium
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh she killed herself
but the others realised and didn’t really bother too hard chasing down her attacks. So OK Ratto could sit in on the chase, but the ones doing the chasing weren’t working as hard as they could.
I wonder if Canna Solovei
was trying to TT home?
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 9, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Cooler than a Schleck
(just the one shot from the boys’ race) 500m to the finish line, Le Gac is out alone with a 10s lead and he drops his chain, but just calmly leans down to fix it without stopping. The boy has a big future.
Clever boy!
Ah, those Schlecks…. imagine if they could time trial, understood bike mechanics, didn’t have ambtion stifled by brotherly love & weren’t “supported” by the dreadful Saxo mechanics….
by Sarah Connolly on Aug 8, 2010 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Olivier Le Gac
was very emotional as he arrived home to tv cameras and family
and they gave him a lovely welcome
It’s fair to say they’re pretty damn proud of him!
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