We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Evenepoel snatches photo-finish win to clinch European road cycling crown Belgium's Olympic road racing champion Remco Evenepoel took the European championship title on Sunday after outsprinting Italy's Giulio Ciccone in a tight photo finish, just weeks after narrowly missing out on the world championship crown. Remco Evenepoel (left) crosses the finish line to win ahead of Giulio Ciccone. © Jure Makovec, The 2024 Olympic road racing gold medallist Remco Evenepoel said on Sunday taking the European championship title helped him to get over failing to claim the world crown earlier this month. The Belgian pipped Italian Giulio Ciccone at the finish line in Slovenia having finished with the elite clique that trailed winner Brandon McNulty home at the worlds last Sunday in Montreal.
Cicconi's compatriot Christian Scaroni was third almost a minute behind. "This performance was honestly really tough for me after the disappointment of the worlds. "It's a big relief to be back on a good level today and to complete my championship jerseys so it feels amazing," the 2019 and 2025 European time trial gold medallist added.
Remco Evenepoel won the world road race title in 2022. © Jure Makovec, Evenepoel was the pre-race favourite with the all-conquering Tadej Pogacar, who won the race 12 months ago, missing due to injury with the race held in his home country. Other stand-out riders like Dane Jonas Vingegaard, Paul Seixas, Tom Pidcock and Mathieu van der Poel were also absent. Despite not competing, joint-record five-time Tour de France champion Pogacar was still present, with the starting gun in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, as he appeared from the window of a car on the route, to the joy of local fans.
With 36 of the 196km to go, in the postcard setting of the Alps, Belgium launched Red Bull-Bora hansgrohe's Evenepoel with Ciccone following on. Evenepoel then slid on the tarmac on a corner but caught up with Ciccone, who had slowed down to save energy going into the final kilometres. The pair were neck and neck until the end in Sencur, the location for five laps of 22.1km, before Evenepoel needed a photo finish to complete his European-worlds double, having finished second in the continental race in 2021 and last year.
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