14.05 LOBERANT Benjamin ISR 14.07 GIACINTI Jorge ARG 14.09 ZIVKOVIC Dragomir YUG 14.11 DVORSCIK Milan SVK 14.13 POULNIKOV Vladimir UKR 14.15 HALL Jonathon AUS 14.17 GUGGANIG Bernhard AUT 14.19 QUADRI Hernandez BRA 14.21 HAMILTON Tyler USA 14.23 PINTARIC Robert SLO 14.25 CHMIELEWSKI Piotr POL 14.27 MEIER Roland SUI 14.29 BONCIUCOV Igor MLD 14.31 KARLSSON Jan SWE 14.33 OZOLS Dainis LAT 14.35 SALVATO Cristian ITA 14.37 AUS Lauri EST 14.39 LUPEIKIS Remigius LTU 14.41 ANDRADE Joaquim POR 14.43 KNAVEN Servais NED 14.45 MILLAR David GBR 14.47 PENA GRISALES Victor Hugo COL 14.49 HRUSKA Jan CZE 14.51 VAUGHTERS Jonathan USA 14.53 IVANOV Rauslan MLD 14.55 MULLER Dietmar AUT 14.57 WOHLBERG Eric CAN 14.59 VOGELS Henk AUS 15.01 SANDSTOD Michael DEN 15.03 LIPTAK Miroslav SVK 15.05 SVIBEN Saso SLO 15.07 ANDERSSON Michael SWE 15.09 WALZER Andreas GER 15.11 JASKULA Zenon POL 15.13 STREEL Marc BEL 15.15 ANDRIOTTO Dario ITA 15.17 SEIGNEUR Eddy FRA 15.19 BREUKINK Erik NED 15.21 MAURI PRAT Melchior ESP 15.23 ROMINGER Tony SUI 15.25 BERZIN Eugeni RUS 15.27 JALABERT Laurent FRA 15.29 DOMINGUEZ D. J. Carlos ESP 15.31 PESCHEL Uwe GER 15.33 GONTCHAR Serguei UKR 15.35 BOARDMAN Christopher GBR 15.37 ZUELLE Alex SUI
1. JALABERT Laurent FRA 52:01.19 2. GONTCHAR Serguei UKR 3.32 3. BOARDMAN Chris. GBR 20.53 4. ROMINGER Tony SUI 24.34 5. PESCHEL Uwe GER 44.89 6. MAURI Melchior ESP 46.29 7. BREUKINK Erik NED 1:27.11 8. HALL Jonathon AUS 1:45.84 9. JASKULA Zenon POL 2:04.88 10. DOMINGUEZ J. ESP 2:14.31 11. ZUELLE Alex SUI 2:15.37 12. ANDERSSON Michael SWE 2:18.08 13. ANDRIOTTO Dario ITA 2:20.34 14. MEIER Roland SUI 2:23.82 15. VAUGHTERS Jonathan USA 2:46.63 16. VOGELS Henk AUS 3:21.72 17. AUS Lauri EST 3:33.98 18. SALVATO Cristian ITA 3:35.81 19. SEIGNEUR Eddy FRA 3:36.40 20. MILLAR David GBR 3:50.31 21. POULNIKOV Vladimir UKR 3:50.89 22. BERZIN Eugeni RUS 3:59.85 23. KNAVEN Servais NED 4:03.10 24. KARLSSON Jan SWE 4:31.12 25. LUPEIKIS Remigius LTU 4:37.04 26. OZOLS Dainis LAT 4:39.88 27. IVANOV Rauslan MLD 4:42.56 28. ANDRADE Joaquim POR 4:44.82 29. WOHLBERG Eric CAN 4:58.89 30. HRUSKA Jan CZE 5:00.94 31. CHMIELEWSKI Piotr POL 5:01.90 32. WALZER Andreas GER 5:07.93 33. PENA GRISALES Victor COL 5:13.45 34. STREEL Marc BEL 5:13.45 35. SVIBEN Saso SLO 5:44.29 36. SANDSTOD Michael DEN 6:01.25 37. MULLER Dietmar AUT 6:15.18 38. PINTARIC Robert SLO 6:42.56 39. HAMILTON Tyler USA 6:48.68 40. GUGGANIG Bernhard AUT 6:51.64 41. BONCIUCOV Igor MLD 7:07.44 42. LIPTAK Miroslav SVK 7:10.83 43. DVORSCIK Milan SVK 7:59.00 44. QUADRI Hernandez BRA 8:12.56 45. GIACINTI Jorge ARG 8:43.10 46. LOBERANT Benjamin ISR 9:27.84 47. ZIVKOVIC Dragomir YUG 13:07.88
At 19.1 kms 1. Sergei Gontchar 21'49 2. Laurent Jalabert 22'06 3. Uwe Peschel 22'11 4. Christopher Boardman 22'13 5. Melchior Mauri 22'15 6. Tony Rominger 22'18 7. Carlos Dominguez 22'31 8. Erik Breukink 22'34 9. Alex Zulle 22'37 (flat tyre within 200 meter after start) 10. Eugeni Berzin 22'52 11. Zenon Jaskula 23'04 At 36.7 km 1. Sergei Gontchar 44'28 2. Laurent Jalabert 44'29 3. Tony Rominger 44'47 4. Christopher Boardman 44'49 5. Uwe Peschel 45'02 6. Melchior Mauri 45'05 7. Erik Breukink 45'49
km Jalabert Gontchar Boardman Rominger
19.1 22.06 21,49 22,13 22,18
(2) (1) (4) (6)
27.2 31.56 31.39 31.57 32.09
(2) (1) (3) (6)
36.7 44.29 44.28 44.49 44.47
(2) (1) (4) (3)
52.01 52.04 52.21 52.25
(1) (2) (3) (4)
1 2 3 Final 19.1 27.2 36.7 42.6 kms kms kms kms ----------------------------- 1. Jalabert (Fra) 22.06 31.56 44.29 52.01 2. Gontchar (Ukr) 21.49 31.39 44.28 52.04 3. Boardman (GB) 22.13 31.57 44.49 52.21 4. Rominger (Swi) 22.18 32.09 44.47 52.25 5. Peschel (Ger) 22.11 32.09 45.02 52.46 6. Mauri (Spa) 22.15 32.05 45.05 52.47 7. Breukink (Ned) 22.34 32.30 45.49 52.28 8. Hall (Aus) 23.35 32.48 45.52 53.47 9. Jaskula (Pol) 23.04 32.51 45.52 54.15 10. J.C. Domínguez (Spa) 22.31 32.52 46.22 54.15 11. Zulle (Swi) 22.37 33.00 46.13 54.16
Gold Silver Bronze Total
France 2 - - 2
Germany 1 1 1 3
Russia 1 1 1 3
Italy 1 - - 1
Australia - 1 - 1
Ukraine - 1 - 1
Hungary - 1 - 1
Spain - - 1 1
South Africa - - 1 1
Great Britain - - 1 1
The great defeat was for Swiss Alex Zulle, recent winner of la Vuelta a España and who rode defending the title that he won last year, but from the start bad luck became his friend. Practically from the start ramp he suffered a flat, which would influence his behavior in the rest of the race and then at km19, he had another flat. Russian Eugeni Berzin didn't ride as expected either, a rider with the class and style for the time trial, but didn't perform. Maybe because like he said a few days ago, the Worlds were sort of a test for his Hour Record attempt.
So the time trial became a "mano a mano" between Jalabert & Gontchar since the first time check (19.1km). At this point Gontchar passed with a time of 21:49 with Jalabert at 22:06. The other favorites, Boardman, Zulle, Peschel, Rominger and Mauri passed with a time larger than 22:10. The gap between Jalabert, (who used 54 & 44 chainrings, with a 11 to 21 cassette) and Gontchar increased, since at km27.2 the two rider kept increasing the differences with the favorites, where only Rominger showed any sort of form.
The last part of the race was exciting. It was the most difficult and theoretically more suited for the Ukranian, since he's a specialist and the small climb of Oriamendi almost at the finish. Luckily for Jalabert, the Ukranian paid for his previous effort and started to lose time in the last six kilometers, since he had to stand up on the bike to maintain his rhythm, which made him lose his aerodynamic advantage.
Jalabert maintained his rhythm and although he knew the time gaps, he didn't seem to worry, not even when he found out that he had the best time and that both Zulle and Boardman were suffering. In the end a splendid Jalabert took the gold by only 3 seconds over Gontchar, although he ridiculed the specialists, since Boardman needed 20 more seconds to take 3rd place, which he took from Rominger in the last few meters.
Melchor Mauri rode a good first half of the course and then faded away on the last section. He held third place overall for awhile. Also performing pretty bad was Juan Carlos Domínguez, since after a good first half he just sank and lost his rhythm to finish tenth more than 2 minutes from Laurent Jalabert.
Frenchman Laurent Jalabert captured his first world championship Thursday, winning the elite men’s individual time trial.
Jalabert covered the 43.8km course in 52 minutes, 1.19 seconds, a mere 3.32 seconds ahead of silver medalist Serguei Gontchar of Ukraine. Christopher Boardman of Great Britain was third, 20.53 seconds behind Jalabert.
Alex Zulle of Switzerland, the defending world champion and La Vuelta a Espana winner, had a difficult day, suffering mechanical problems and finished 11th, 2:15.37 behind Jalabert.
The top American finisher was national champion Jonathan Vaughters, Englewood, Colo., who finished 15th in a time of 54:47.82.
"I’m stoked," Vaughters said. "I hope I raised a few eyebrows just a little bit."
Vaughters raced for the Spanish-based Santa Clara team from 1994-96, but raced almost exclusively in the United States and trained by himself for the past five weeks for this event.
The other American entrant, Tyler Hamilton, Marblehead, Mass., finished 39th in 58:49.37.
Tomorrow action features the junior men’s and junior women’s road races. In the 67.5km junior women’s road race, the U.S. will be represented by Michelle Orem, Whittier, Calif., and Emily Hamilton, Louisville, Colo. In the junior men’s 121.5km race, the U.S. team includes Josh Thornton, Greene, R.I.; Derek Wilkerson, San Antonio, Fla.; and David Zabriskie, Salt Lake City, Utah.