Cycling at the 2015 European Games – Women's individual time trial

Women's time trial
Cycling at the 2015 European Games
Race details
Dates 18 June 2015
Stages 1
Distance 25.8 km (16.03 mi)
Winning time 32' 26.87"
Results
  Winner  Ellen van Dijk (NED) (Netherlands)
  Second  Hanna Solovey (UKR) (Ukraine)
  Third  Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) (Netherlands)

The women's individual time trial cycling event at the 2015 European Games in Baku took place over a distance of 25.8 km on 18 June starting and finishing at Bilgah Beach.[1] The course of the race was quite flat and not very technical with a turning point halfway.

Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands won the time trial with force majeure ahead of Hanna Solovey from Ukraine and Annemiek van Vleuten from the Netherlands.

Race

In the morning of the competition it was sunny with a very strong wind. Because the wind was stronger than the days before, Ellen van Dijk chose another wheel for her bike before the start.

The first rider started at 10:00 with one minute between every rider. For a long time the intermediate and final times of Annemiek van Vleuten from the Netherlands, who started early in the competition, were the fastest times. The intermediate time of Hanna Solovey from Ukraine was seven seconds faster than Van Vleuten. A bit later Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands, the main favorite who started last, was 14 seconds faster than Solovey. On the finish line the Russian Tatiana Antoshina finished just a few seconds slower than Van Vleuten. Solovey was on the finish about half a minute faster than Van Vleuten and Van Dijk was subsequently half a minute faster than Solovey. Ellen van Dijk was very pleased with her win: "It is the first European Games and that is quite special. This was a race I have been preparing for, for a long time. I have been training at high altitude. I wanted to be very strong in this period and that worked out great. It was very tough today, especially with the wind, but then again it's the same circumstances for everyone. I was able to get into a rhythm quickly and I could keep up the pace. This is what I can do, but it didn't feel particularly great on this course. It's hard to concentrate when it's only one straight road ahead. There's not much to do while riding. You just have to push and push."

Result

Course of the time trial
RankRiderNationTimeBehind
Ellen van DijkNetherlands32:26.87N/A
Hanna SoloveyUkraine33:03.37+36.50
Annemiek van VleutenNetherlands33:33.56+1:06.69
4Tatiana AntoshinaRussia33:38.73+1:11.86
5Martina RitterAustria33:51.77+1:24.90
6Olena PavlukhinaAzerbaijan33:57.45+1:30.58
7Ann-Sophie DuyckBelgium34:05.21+1:38.34
8Alena AmialiusikBelarus34:07.32+1:40.45
9Eugenia BujakPoland34:38.82+2:11.95
10Camilla MøllebroDenmark34:50.63+2:23.76
11Tatsiana SharakovaBelarus35:03.41+2:36.54
12Dana RožlapaLatvia35:18.39+2:51.52
13Sari SaarelainenFinland35:21.73+2:54.86
14Mia RadotićCroatia35:27.80+3:00.93
15Caroline RyanIreland35:29.55+3:02.68
16Polona BatageljSlovenia35:33.69+3:06.82
17Annabelle DrevilleFrance35:33.97+3:07.10
18Aušrinė TrebaitėLithuania35:38.19+3:11.32
19Cecilie Gotaas JohnsenNorway35:57.58+3:30.71
20Anna PlichtaPoland36:00.51+3:33.64
21Natalia BoyarskayaRussia36:06.34+3:39.47
22Sheyla Gutierrez RuizSpain36:14.28+3:47.41
23Tatiana GuderzoItaly36:18.25+3:51.38
24Liisi RistEstonia36:21.96+3:55.09
25Rossella RattoItaly36:22.26+3:55.39
26Varvara FasoiGreece36:24.82+3:57.95
27Zuzana NeckářováCzech Republic36:42.48+4:15.61
28Séverine EraudFrance36:45.99+4:19.12
29Tereza MedvedováSlovakia39:06.78+6:39.91
30Aysenur TurgutTurkey41:53.64+9:26.77

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References

  1. ↑ "Cycling Road at the 2015 European Games". Baku 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Full results UCI.ch
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