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Euro 2025: Remco Evenepoel Crushes Competition to Win Time Trial Double

Euro 2025: Remco Evenepoel Crushes Competition to Win Time Trial Double

Remco Evenepoel has overwhelmingly won the European Time Trial Championship. In the French Drôme, he finished well ahead of Filippo Ganna and the surprising Niklas Larsen. Daan Hoole came in sixth. Only Ganna was able to finish within a minute of Evenepoel.

After Marlen Reusser's time trial victory, all eyes at the European Championships were on the other time trial world champion, in Rwanda, who was attempting the double in France, namely Evenepoel. The question beforehand was: how had the Belgian coped with the long journey from Rwanda to the Drôme in recent days?

Evenepoel was the very last to leave the start ramp on Wednesday. Before that, attention was on riders like Daan Hoole, Mads Pedersen, Bruno Armirail, Filippo Ganna, Joshua Tarling, and Ethan Hayter, who all started just before the Belgian.

Among the early starters, Max Walscheid set the first benchmark time, finishing in 30 minutes and 28 seconds. But since only 29 riders started at this European Championship, the pace was high, and attention quickly turned to the top favorites.

Whirlwind Evenepoel rushes to gold
Joshua Tarling and Filippo Ganna did what was expected of them in the Drôme. At the first split, they recorded the two best intermediate times. The whirlwind Evenepoel, however, was already on his way. At the first checkpoint, he was thirteen seconds faster than the Italian and sixteen seconds faster than the Brit. After just fourteen minutes, the Belgian caught Stefan Küng. At the finish line, he proved to be more than forty seconds faster than his Italian rival, thereby impressively taking the double.

And behind them? Behind Evenepoel and Ganna, a fierce battle for the bronze medal unfolded. A battle in which a continental-level rider would claim the medal. Larsen, riding for Danish team Bornholm, stayed two seconds ahead of the Britons Ethan Hayter and Joshua Tarling. Daan Hoole finished sixth behind them.