YORKSHIRE, GREAT BRITAIN. Danish cyclist Mads Pedersen gave the surprise by proclaiming himself World Champion in the test that closed the World Road Cycling World Championships in Yorkshire (United Kingdom) on Sunday, a 261-kilometer race in which the title defender retired before the end, the Spanish Alejandro Valverde.

Pedersen, 23, unexpectedly won the Italian Matteo Trentin, favorite and who launched the final sprint of a trio headboard in which the Swiss Stefan Kung, one of the heroes of a dantesque test for weather conditions, took the bronze.

That the Italian splashed water on the legs in the last kilometers already made suspect that he had some physical problem. Even so, when it started, few doubted that it was going to add the gold of the World Cup to the European that it achieved in 2018.

Before Trentin disappointed, so did another of the big favorites, the Dutchman Mathieu van del Poel, who was the one who provoked the decisive attack in the platoon 33 kilometers away but burst 12, being in the group of elected.

Without Valverde in the final stretch, the best Spaniards were the Basque brothers Gorka and Ion Izagirre, ninth and sixteenth within the main group that reached 25 seconds of the winner. That ended in 6 hours, 27 minutes and 28 seconds.

Gorka almost linked with the head quintet on the penultimate lap, but he lacked a few seconds and then he had no help.

Those last meters were the culmination of a race that already started with problems because the prevailing weather conditions, added to the water dropped in previous days, forced the route to be shortened. To which 50 km of the hardest before the entry into the final Harratage circuit was eliminated.

A circuit of 14 kilometers to which instead of the seven scheduled laps the runners had to take nine, with the final result of 261 kilometers in route instead of the planned 280. (EFE)

FINAL CLASSIFICATION INDIVIDUAL ROUTE MEN (261 KM).

  1. Mads Pedersen (DEN) 6:27:28 GOLD
  2. Matteo Trentin (ITA) 6:27:28 SILVER
  3. Stefan Küng (SUI) +0: 00: 02 BRONZE

4. Gianni Moscon (ITA) +0:00:17

5. Peter Sagan (SVK) +0:00:43

6. Michael Valgren (DEN) +0:00:45

7. Alexander Kristoff (NOR) +0:01:10

8. Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) +0:01:10

9. Gorka Izagirre (ESP) +0:01:10

10. Rui Costa (POR) +0:01:10

11. Sonny Colbrelli (ITA) +0:01:10

12. Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) +0:01:10

13. Zdenek Stybar (CZE) +0:01:10

14. Carlos Betancur (COL) +0:01:10

15. John Degenkolb (GER) +0:01:10

16. Ion Izagirre (ESP) +0:01:14

17. Amund Grondahl Jansen (NOR) +0:01:14

18. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) +0:01:14

19. Nils Politt (GER) a+0:01:22

20. Niki Terpstra (NED) +0:01:22

21. Toms Skujins (LAT) +0:01:46

22. Michael Albasini (SUI) +0:01:48

23. Tony Gallopin (FRA) +0:01:50

24. Michael Matthews (AUS) +0:01:57

25. Alberto Bettiol (ITA) +0:01:57

26. Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR) +0:02:20

27. Marc Hirschi (SUI) +0:02:20

28. Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) +0:02:26

29. Daniel Felipe Martínez (COL) +0:03:56

30. Ben Swift (GBR) +0:06:38

31. Felix Grobschartner (AUT) +0:03:59

32. Yves Lampaert (BEL) +0:07:48

33. Oliver Naesen (BEL) +0:08:07

34. Sven Erik Bystrom (NOR) +0:08:07

35. Tim Wellens (BEL) +0:08:07

36. Mike Teunissen (NED) +0:08:07

37. Dylan Teuns (BEL) +0:08:07

38. Esteban Chaves (COL) +0:08:07

39. Andrey Amador (CRC) +0:08:07

40. Benoit Cosnefroy (FRA) +0:10:52

41. Neilson Powless (USA) +0:10:52

42. Benoit Cosnefroy (FRA) +0:10:52

43. Mathieu van der Poel (NED) +0:10:52

44. Imanol Erviti (ESP) +0:14:48

45. Lucas Eriksson (SWE) +0:14:48

46. Petr Vakoc (CZE) +0:19:25

  Mark Padun (UKR) DNS

  Jay Robert Thomson (RSA) DNS

  Alejandro Valverde (ESP) DNF

  Iván García Cortina (ESP) DNF

  Marc Soler (ESP) DNF

  Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP) DNF

  Jan Tratnik (SLO) DNF

  Álvaro José Hodeg (COL) DNF

  Evaldas Siskevicius (LIT) DNF

  José Gonçalves (POR) DNF

  Patrick Konrad (AUT) DNF

  Ben Gastauer (LUX) DNF

  Tom Wirtgen (LUX) DNF

  Matej Mohoric (SLO) DNF

  Michael Morkov (DEN) DNF

  Daniel Martin (IRL) DNF

  Eduardo Sepúlveda (ARG) DNF

  Conor Dunne (IRL) DNF

  Ben Perry (CAN) DNF

  Merhawi Kudus (ERI) DNF

  Diego Ulissi (ITA) DNF

  Julien Bernard (FRA) DNF

  Lawson Craddock (USA) DNF

  Rafal Majka (POL) DNF

  Stefan de Bod (RSA) DNF

  Nikias Arndt (GER) DNF

  Rein Taaramae (EST) DNF

  Ján Andrej Cully (SVK) DNF

  Lukas Pöstlberger (AUT) DNF

  Mihkel Räim (EST) DNF

  Marcus Burghardt (GER) DNF

  Stylianós Farantákis (GRE) DNF

  Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) DNF

  Dmitry Strakhov (RUS) DNF

  Mitchell Docker (AUS) DNF

  Sergei Chernetski (RUS) DNF

  Josef Cerny (CZE) DNF

  Lukasz Owsian (POL) DNF

  Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) DNF

  Shane Archbold (NZL) DNF

  Pascal Ackermann (GER) DNF

  Salvatore Puccio (ITA) DNF

  Marco Haller (AUT) DNF

  Dmitriy Gruzdev (KAZ) DNF

  Juan Sebastián Molano (COL) DNF

  Jonathan Klever Caicedo (ECU) DNF

  Yuriy Natarov (KAZ) DNF

  Sebastián Henao (COL) DNF

  Michael Gogl (AUT) DNF

  Danilo Wyss (SUI) DNF

  Daniel Teklehaimanot (ERI) DNF

  Bob Jungels (LUX) DNF

  Stepan Kurianov (RUS) DNF

  Simon Clarke (AUS) DNF 

  Pawel Poljanski (POL) DNF

  Ryan Mullen (IRL) DNF

  Davide Cimolai (ITA) DNF

  Ian Stannard (GBR) DNF

  Drikus Coetzee (NAM) DNF

  Florian Sénéchal (FRA) DNF

  Rui Oliveira (POR) DNF

  Nelson Oliveira (POR) DNF

  Aleksandr Vlasov (RUS) DNF

  Tanel Kangert (EST) DNF

  Grega Bole (SLO) DNF

  Roman Kreuziger (CZE) DNF

  Michael Schar (SUI) DNF

  Zhandos Bizhigitov (KAZ) DNF

  Rory Townsend (GBR) DNF

  Alexander Evtushenko (RUS) DNF

  Michael Woods (CAN) DNF

  Jan Bárta (CZE) DNF

  Ruben Guerreiro (POR) DNF

  Christopher Juul-Jensen (DEN) DNF

  Philippe Gilbert (BEL) DNF

  Bauke Mollema (NED) DNF

  Yevgeniy Gidich (KAZ) DNF

  Polychronis Tzortzakis (GRE) DNF

  Nathan Haas (AUS) DNF

  Guillaume Boivin (CAN) DNF

  Carl Fredrik Hagen (NOR) DNF

  Erik Baška (SVK) DNF

  Luke Durbridge (AUS) DNF

  Sam Bennett (IRL) DNF

  Patrick Bevin (NZL) DNF

  JOSÉ JOAQUÍN ROJAS (ESP) DNF

  Remco Evenepoel (BEL) DNF

  Jasha Sütterlin (GER) DNF

  Rohan Dennis (AUS) DNF

  Juraj Sagan (SVK) DNF

  Krists Neilands (LAT) DNF

  Owain Doull (GBR) DNF

  Dylan van Baarle (NED) DNF

  Nic Dlamini (RSA) DNF

  Richard Carapaz (ECU) DNF

  Hugo Houle (CAN) DNF

  Kim Magnusson (SWE) DNF

  Simon Geschke (GER) DNF

  Péter Kusztor (HUN) DNF

  Casper Pedersen (DEN) DNF

  Nairo Quintana (COL) DNF

  Emils Liepins (LAT) DNF

  Natnael Berhane (ERI) DNF

  Rémi Cavagna (FRA) DNF

  Hideto Nakane (JPN) DNF

  Alex Kirsch (LUX) DNF

  Jack Bauer (NZL) DNF

  Jhonatan Narváez (ECU) DNF

  Luka Pibernik (SLO) DNF

  David Per (SLO) DNF

  Antoine Duchesne (CAN) DNF

  Michal Golas (POL) DNF

  Rory Sutherland (AUS) DNF

  Dion Smith (NZL) DNF

  James Piccoli (CAN) DNF

  Hermann Pernsteiner (AUT) DNF

  Kasper Asgreen (DEN) DNF

  Vasil Kiryienka (BLR) DNF

  Yukiya Arashiro (JPN) DNF

  Tim Declercq (BEL) DNF

  Lukasz Wisniowski (POL) DNF

  Magnus Cort Nielsen (DEN) DNF

  Vegard Stake Laengen (NOR) DNF

  Jack Haig (AUS) DNF

  Eddie Dunbar (IRL) DNF

  Adam Yates (GBR) DNF

  Silvan Dillier (SUI) DNF

  Frantisek Sisr (CZE) DNF

  Anthony Roux (FRA) DNF

  Geraint Thomas (GBR) DNF

  Jos van Emden (NED) DNF

  Pavel Sivakov (RUS) DNF

  Gediminas Bagdonas (LTU) DNF

  Eduard Michael Grosu (ROU) DNF

  Mekseb Debesay (ERI) DNF

  Luis León Sánchez (ESP) DNF

  Primoz Roglic (SLO) DNF

  Alo Jakin (EST) DNF

  Pieter Weening (NED) DNF

  Jefferson Cepeda (ECU) DNF

  Alexandr Riabushenko (BLR) DNF

  Maciej Bodnar (POL) DNF

  Antonio Barac (CRO) DNF

  Christophe Laporte (FRA) DNF

  Daryl Impey (RSA) DNF

  Sebastian Langeveld (NED) DNF

  Jan Polanc (SLO) DNF

  Giovanni Visconti (ITA) DNF

  Márton Dina (HUN) DNF

  Jonas Koch (GER) DNF

  Alex Howes (USA) DNF