Adam Toupalik (Unibet Tietema Rockets) and Hanna Nilsson (Sartoria Ciclistica Squadra Corse) claimed the highest spots at Gravel Journey, holding off Petr Vakoč (Canyon) and British champion Annabel Fisher (BIXS Far Out) within the UCI Gravel World Series spherical in Poland.
Toupalik delivered a time of three:51:19 for the 128km occasion, crossing the road within the males’s elite race simply over a minute forward of Vakoč, who was forging by means of the fatigue of Unbound 200. Seppe Rombouts (PAS Racing) was 4:26 again from the winner, the Belgian taking third on the occasion for a second 12 months operating.
Nilsson took her first Gravel World Collection win on the girls’s elite race, which looped out from Jakuszyce, with a time of 4:46:01, beating Fisher in a decent sprint to the road. Theresa Rindler Bachl (Protecting Manufacturing unit Staff) was third, 24 seconds again.
The race had began in advantageous situations however was then hit by heavy rain mid-event.
“In the course of the downhill all of us acquired extraordinarily chilly,” mentioned Nilsson, of the state of affairs after the rain, in a social media post . “Within the ultimate 10km I went to the entrance to push a bit extra as a result of I needed to get some warmth again in my physique.
“With 4km to go I circled and seen we had been solely with 2 ladies. From there on it was full gasoline and I used to be capable of cross the end line with sufficient seconds to place my fingers up within the air.”
Final 12 months Hans Becking and Carolin Schiff claimed the victories within the Polish race, which was early to affix the UCI Gravel World Collection. The sequence has rounds scattered across the globe, all appearing as qualifying for the UCI Gravel World Championships, to be held on October 11 and 12 in Limburg in 2025. The subsequent occasions are Gravel Problem Blaavands Huk in Denmark and Safari Gravel Race in Kenya on Saturday June 14 then there’s Want One Millau Grands Causses on Sunday June 14.
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Elite males’s prime 5
| Place |
Rider |
Time |
| 1 |
Adam Toupalik |
3:51:19 |
| 2 |
Petr Vakoč |
+1:00 |
| 3 |
Seppe Rombouts |
+4:26 |
| 4 |
Adam Żuber |
+6:22 |
| 5 |
Andrew Lydic |
+7:12 |
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Elite girls’s prime 5
| Place |
Rider |
Time |
| 1 |
Hanna Nilsson |
4:46:01 |
| 2 |
Annabel Fisher |
+05 |
| 3 |
Theresa Rindler Bachl |
+24 |
| 4 |
Sabine Sommer |
+2:38 |
| 5 |
Melissa Wijfje |
+3:12 |
