ROMA. Edward Affini is the new European elite time trial champion. He won the title on the streets of Limburg, on the opening day of the Continental Championships, which thus began in the best possible way for the Italian expedition.
In addition to the title of the 28 year old from Mantua, in fact, the third place of Mattia Cattaneo and the fifth of Victoria Guazzini. For Affini, this is the first title in the top category in a specialty that had already seen him on the highest step among the U23s, in 2018 in Glasgow. The Team Visma-Lease a Bike rider maintains a special relationship with the Union jersey, having also worn it as a junior, winning in 2014 in Nyon in the road race.
In the absence of Filippo Ganna, therefore, the athlete who more than others has built his sporting career in parallel with that of the Piedmontese will take care of bringing the continental title in the time trial to Italy for the first time. Ganna had come close, in 2021, beaten by that Stefan Kung who today had to bow to the greater bottom of the blue.
2024-09-12 01:17:23