The Norwegian Foss breaks all forecasts and is proclaimed time trial champion

Norwegian

broke all predictions and won the gold medal at the World Time Trial Championship in Wollongong (Australia) on Sunday.

The Jumbo team rider surprised the specialists on a flat course of 34.2 kilometers.

The second place went to the Swiss

and the third to the Belgian

(winner of the last edition of the Vuelta a España).

The World Championship took place on a 17.1-kilometre circuit that was completed twice.

The profile, with slight slopes along wide avenues with numerous curves and roundabouts, was a test for strong runners, with powerful pedaling, like Foss, the time trial champion of his country for the last two years.

The 25-year-old runner used a time of 40 minutes and two seconds.

Kung did two seconds more and Evenepoel, nine seconds more.

Fourth was the British

, 39 seconds behind, who was left out of the medals due to a mechanical failure.

In the last section of the time trial the chain came off and he lost more than half a minute.

The big loser was the Italian Filippo Ganna, who was looking for his third consecutive title and finished seventh, 55 seconds behind Foss.

He even posted a worse time than the Slovenian

, sixth, at 48 seconds.

The Spanish

signed a discreet time trial and finished in 26th place.

In the female category, the Dutch

prevailed , with a time of 44.28.

The silver went to the Australian

, 12 seconds behind.

The bronze was obtained by the Swiss

, at 41 seconds.

The best ranked Spaniard was

, in 31st place, 6 minutes and 20 seconds behind.

was 32nd, at 6.22.

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