WORLDS’23 Junior Girls RR: Julie Bego Solos for France!

Worlds Race Report: Julie Bego gained the junior ladies’s World championship title. The French rider attacked at 21 kilometres from the end and couldn’t be caught. The silver medal went to Cat Ferguson (Nice Britain), Fleur Moors (Belgium) took bronze.

Bego takes gold

The junior ladies needed to race over 70.3 kilometres on Saturday. They needed to trip around the 14.3 kilometre metropolis circuit in Glasgow 5 instances. The highest-5 international locations at the beginning have been: Nice Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Junior ladies’s race profile

These international locations took management from the beginning, though Australia was additionally seen on the entrance of the peloton. The tempo was excessive and there was quickly riders in hassle on the again. It was going to be an elimination race. There wasn’t any actual breaks, though the tempo was exhausting on each climb.

Britain, Belgium, France and Italy have been in management

Fleur Moors, one of many sturdy Belgians, made it troublesome for the others on every hill in Glasgow. She would put the strain on each climb, exhibiting her rivals that she was extra prepared. At 20 kilometres from the end there was the primary massive assault. Celia Gery went off the entrance along with her compatriot Julie Bego, the Belgian Moors and the British rider, Awen Roberts.

Bego went solo with 20K to go

Bego thought it wasn’t quick sufficient and continued excessive of one of many climbs. The 18 year-old made an enormous hole fairly rapidly. Her lead was 20 seconds after 3 kilometres. The chase got here from the British group, who bought just a few seconds nearer on Montrose Avenue. However, as a result of blocking work of the opposite French riders, the pursuit didn’t get any nearer.

The steep climb of Montrose Avenue

On the final climb of Montrose Avenue, lower than 2 kilometres from the end, Bego hammered up the robust ramp. Her victory was now in no hazard. Behind; Moors had jumped away from the others on Montrose Avenue with a robust effort. The Belgian on her option to the silver medal, however within the final metres she was caught by Ferguson. Moors was simply in a position to maintain off Italy’s Federica Venturelli for the bronze.

The win for Julie Bego

World champion, Julie Bego (France): “I’ve been fascinated by the World title for greater than six months. I’ve been telling everybody for 2 months that I’ll develop into World champion. It labored too, so I’m very glad. I educated very exhausting for this. So I used to be pushed to do effectively. I additionally had a terrific group. There have been many probabilities for a Frenchwoman to take the world title. I could not have been the strongest on the earth, however I had the strongest group on the earth.”

Junior ladies’s podium: Julie Bego (France), Moors Fleur (Belgium) and Cat Ferguson (GB)

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2023 World Junior Girls Highway Race End result:
1. Julie Bego (France) in 1:54:53
2. Cat Ferguson (Nice Britain) at 0:09
3. Fleur Moors (Belgium)
4. Federica Venturelli (Italy)
5. Imogen Wolff (Nice Britain) at 0:12
6. Titia Ryo (France)
7. Célia Gery (France)
8. Isabella Holmgren (Canada) at 0:15
9. Mackenzie Coupland (Australia)
10. Xaydee Van Sinaey (Belgium) at 0:17.

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