Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) claimed his first race win since struggling a life-threatening coincidence in 2022, rising victorious within the elite males’s time trial on the Colombian Nationwide Championships in Bucaramanga on Thursday.
Bernal had regarded as retirement following the coincidence during which he rode head-first right into a stopped town bus whilst coaching on his time trial motorbike. Alternatively, he slowly labored his long ago into race health during the last two seasons.
Bernal scorched the 42.2-kilometre time trial to win his 2nd Colombian name in 50:51 (49.794kph), seven seconds faster than Walter Vargas (Group Medellin-EPM) and 29 seconds forward of third-placed Brandon Rivera (Ineos Grenadiers).
The 28-year-old final gained a countrywide championship in 2018 when he beat Dani Martinez to the time trial name.
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