- Welshman comes fourth in first world time trial appearance
- Ganna dominates to win comfortably in Imola
With a ride that bodes well for the Giro d’Italia, Geraint Thomas, marked his first ever world time trial championship appearance with a fourth place behind the Italian Filippo Ganna. The Welshman came agonisingly close to a medal position in spite of riding “blind” without a computer on his bike, but it left him well placed for a serious attempt on the Italian Tour, which begins on Saturday 3 October.
Over a shorter than usual course, only 31km out and home from Imola, the race was dominated by Thomas’s Ineos teammate Ganna, who never looked likely to be beaten after he went through the halfway time check a massive 36sec ahead of the 2018 Tour de France winner, who had set off almost half an hour earlier. Ganna, who started second last in the 57-strong field, reached the midpoint 21sec faster than the defending champion, Rohan Dennis, who faded to finish fifth.
Written by William Fotheringham
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