Riding the same TTT circuit as the women, twenty seven teams set out in search of gold.
Downtown Richmond
Champion System.
Astellas.
Jelly Belly.
Jamis-Hagens Berman.
Vino 4 Ever.
Hincapie.
Optum.
United Health Care.
Topsport Vlaanderen.
IAM.
Cannondale Garmin.
FDJ.
Jos Van Emden of Lotto Jumbo waited for a bike change before chasing like mad to try to catch his teammates.
Trek.
Lampre.
AG2R.
Giant Alpecin.
Lotto Soudal.
Astana.
Tinkoff Saxo.
Sky.
Movistar.
Katusha.
Etixx Quick Step.
Orica GreenEdge.
BMC.
The finish line
AG2R.
Giant Alpecin ultimately slotted in at fifth place but spent some time in the hot seat.
Lotto Soudal.
Sky.
Movistar, with time trial specialists like Alex Dowsett and Adriano Malori, secured their first ever podium in the Worlds TTT with a bronze medal performance.
Tinkoff Saxo, fifth in last year’s race, saw Mick Rogers and Michael Valgren crash, each rider leaving chunks of his kit and skin on the pavement. The team managed to finish but were dead last.
Katusha.
Etixx Quick Step, the only team to have medaled at all four editions of the reinstated race, rode to second place today.
Runners up in the last two editions of the Worlds TTT, Orica GreenEdge had a lackluster ride and placed fourth.
All along, this race was BMC’s to lose. They didn’t let the pressure get to them and won the TTT for the second consecutive year.
Gatis Smukulis and Maciej Bodnar surveyed the damage among the Tinkoff squad.
Movistar on the podium.
Etixx Quick Step.
This gold medal was an exclamation mark on the massive comeback Taylor Phinney has waged in the last month after missing well over a year of racing due to a crash at the 2014 national championships.
Busy with on stage celebrations, the team was a blur.
Daniel Oss even let Manuel Quinziato cut off a lock of his hair.
The crowd loved riders like Phinney, Boonen, and Martin, as expected, but the vocal Colombian community has supported Rigoberto Uran with an enthusiasm one could only expect from Colombians.
