CABCP: Worlds
After a bit of a break, CAPCP is back with the latest updates from the Annual Stripey Jumper Quest, AKA the World Champs. Held this year in Tabor, it was an action packed weekend of racing.
If you didn’t see the racing live, on youtube, foreign TV channel or other internet feed, we implore you to do just that. Every event was packed to the brim with quality racing from gun to flag. We’ll have a bit of a round up later today, but until then, check out the great images from the lens of Balint Hamvas.
The Worlds always attracts all sorts of fans, especially ones that really like silly costumes.
Eva Lechner was one of the quiet favourites, but an early crash meant that she had to run the first half of the start lap. Admirably, she didn’t give up and she started a long and hopeless chase. So much so, that in the last part of the race, she completed the fastest laps.
This little hill has always been the part of the course at Tabor and it often invited riders to get a bit of air. I wasn’t expecting anybody doing anything like that though in the first lap of the U23 race. However, the local rider, Jakub Skala, took matters into his own hands and delivered this great move.
Lars van der Haar used to be the ‘young one’, the kid, who left the U23 category ahead schedule and who was poised to rule the elite men’s field in the years to come. But he couldn’t have seen Wout Van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel coming and he was suddenly struggling for a podium place.
Mathieu van der Poel was the youngest and the fastest, an emotional day for van der Poel, whose win wasn’t really in danger during the race.
Don’t forget you can get more images just like these in the Cyclocross Album by visiting the Cyclephotos website and get a round up of last year’s season in the great coffee table book from the 13/14 season.
CABCP is proudly presented in collaboration with Cyclephotos’ Balint Hamvas
