Team Sunweb Complete Golden Double With Men's Team Time Trial World Championships Title

Following a gold medal in the Women's Team Time Trial World Championships, the men's team followed up with an equally impressive double by winning their Team Time Trial Championships this afternoon

It was another superb display of pacing over the 42.5km course that saw the team finish 8" ahead of their nearest rivals.

Tom Dumoulin (NED), Lennard Kämna (GER), Wilco Keldermann (NED), Soren Kragh Andersen (DEN), Michael Matthews (AUS) and Sam Oomen (NED) formed the six rider team that raced around the circuit in Bergen in a time of 47'50".

A nervous wait, much like the women's team endured this morning, was replaced with elation as the final teams came over the finish line unable to match the time set by Team Sunweb. The double wins are the result of hard work put in over the years in developing the best equipment and techniques to allow the riders to build and race to their fullest, and the gold medals are a just reward.

Dumoulin said after the finish: "It's crazy, first the women this afternoon and then us. The team was so homogenous, it was absolutely amazing. Normally you'd say that I was the best time trialist on paper but with this team it was so smooth and we had a really good pace and kept it all the way to the line."

"We tried to keep it together especially on the long climb with around 10km to go which just worked out. We were all flying - I don't have the words. It's really unexpected but very nice. We knew that we were doing a good time trial but didn't know the time splits until the finish. It was so close and so tense with BMC but we made it at the end. It's the team event of the year and we pulled it off."

Team Sunweb coach Adriaan Helmantel (NED) added: "What can I say - this is unreal and so amazing. Of course after the victory of the women it was already amazing, so we took that spirit and also some information into the men's race. Yesterday, we chose to keep the meeting short as everything was clear - the guys just had to do it together. They really did it in an amazing way."

"From the beginning it was really smooth and the level was really homogenous, and I think we made a difference to the other teams here. We stayed actually until the last kilometer with six, where most others were riding with four. That was a part of our strategy as we knew that we could win a lot of time after the climb and that was also the main reason for the selection of the team. We knew that we needed strong TT riders but also strong climbers as there you could make a difference.

"Of course today is a really big day for the team, here with the men's and women's teams working together. It's a big congratulations to the whole team, everybody who works so hard on all the details and that all fell into place today - it's amazing."

2017 Men's Team Time Trial World Championhips Results

1 Team Sunweb 0:47:50
2 BMC Racing Team 0:00:08
3 Team Sky 0:00:22
4 Quick-Step Floors 0:00:35
5 Orica-Scott 0:01:03
6 Movistar Team 0:01:19
7 Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:01:20
8 CCC Sprandi Polkowice 0:01:44
9 Katusha-Alpecin 0:01:46
10 Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:55
11 Astana Pro Team 0:02:16
12 Trek-Segafredo 0:02:50
13 Joker Icopal 0:03:08
14 Sangemini - MG. K Vis 0:05:02
15 Uno - X Hydrogen Development Team 0:05:10
16 Team Fixit.no 0:05:21
17 Team Sparebanken Sør 0:05:30

VIDEO: 2017 UCI Road World Championships - Bergen (NOR) / Men's Team Time Trial

Gold medal in the Mens Team Time Trial World Championships

Intelligent Preparation Leads To Team Sunweb's Women's Team Time Trial World Championships Title

A perfect display of pacing helped lead Team Sunweb to a gold medal in the Women's Team Time Trial World Championships today in Bergen, Norway. The team held on having set the fastest early benchmark as the sixth team to start as all others failed to better their time of 55'41" over the 42.5km course. The win confirms the hard work and development for the team in the discipline.

The six rider team was formed of Lucinda Brand (NED), Leah Kirchmann (CAN), Floortje Mackaij (NED), Coryn Rivera (USA), Sabrina Stultiens (NED) and Ellen van Dijk (NED), who pulled together and stuck to a race plan to pull off a spectacular win.

Ellen van Dijk told us after the podium celebrations: "It was a really tough course and it was so important not to over pace on the climbs as you blow up the whole team so we really focused on that. That was our strength, we kept it really smooth and it was feeling good all the way. We used each others strengths all the way and we took the win which is incredible."

"This year we really didn't expect to go for the win but when you do it really as a team like this and use each others strengths in such a good way it's such a satisfying feeling. We were the underdog and now we're world champions."

Team Sunweb coach Hans Timmermans (NED) added: "It was an amazing race today. It really was ultimate teamwork to win a TTT in this way, especially looking how we paced it perfectly, giving some time in the beginning but bringing it back at the end. Every rider knew what to do, like Sabrina and Floortje went off on a certain moment for one last suicide pull, according to our plan, they did it to their very very best."

"Ellen was very strong but I have to say there was no weak link in this six rider team. We've trained and prepared a lot for this, the commitment was there and I think everybody believed in it. You could feel already in the last few days that everybody was confident and in the end getting this reward shows what we've done the whole year, that we're the best team with a capital T."

2017 Women's Team Time Trial World Championhips Results

1 Team Sunweb 0:55:41
2 Boels Dolmans Cycling Team 0:00:12
3 Cervelo Bigla Pro Cycling Team 0:00:28
4 Canyon-SRAM Racing 0:01:05
5 Team Virtu Cycling Women 0:02:52
6 FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope 0:03:23
7 BTC City Ljubljana 0:03:47
8 BePink Cogeas 0:04:07
9 Hitec Products 0:04:59