Amazement in Ballerup! During the qualifications for the individual pursuit of World Track Championshipsthe British, Josh Charlton broke the world record, previously held by the runner ofINEOS Grenadiers, Filippo Ganna. This new world record was very unexpected because Josh Charlton is only 21 years old and is playing his first World Championships. He had already won the silver medal in the team pursuit.
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“It’s not bad, right?”
The 21-year-old has improved the previous record of Filippo Ganna with a time of 3 minutes, 59 seconds and 304 thousandths, becoming the third person in history to achieve a time of less than four minutes. “It’s not bad, is it?” declared Charlton has Cycling Weekly after the race. “I mean, it’s a total shock, really. It’s a first, so you have to go hard in qualifying. You don’t know what the others are going to do.”
The Briton, who runs for training Trinity Racing on the road and who finished 20th in the time trial of Zurich 2024 Worldslooked back on his preparation before his crazy performance. “This last month, I have had the best legs of my life. I fell seriously ill in March, in April I created chronic fatigue and I had a lot of trouble coming back. Since then, it’s been a very slow and methodical process This last month, I felt like I was progressing more and more in my training, in my numbers, and it went very well when it needed to. declared the new world record holder.
