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Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) celebrated her birthday with particular person time trial glory and a 3rd win in a row on the European Street Championships, finishing the flat 29.5km course in Emmen with a successful time of 35:53 and so at a powerful common of 49.3 km/h.
The Swiss time trial specialist achieved the hat-trick forward of Anna Henderson (Nice Britain) and Christina Schweinberger, who completed 43 and 44 seconds down respectively.
“It’s actually, actually particular and good to win it a 3rd time. It makes me actually joyful and particularly you understand right this moment is my birthday,” mentioned Reusser.
“I feel for my physics it’s good [the flat course], though for the time being I also can climb very nicely so it doesn’t actually matter, what’s in favour for me is that it isn’t possibly too technical.”
It was the proper thirty second birthday current for Reusser and marked a return to success, only a month after she climbed off within the World Championships time trial, citing exhaustion and burnout from an extended season.
Early on, Henderson knocked Audrey Cordon Ragot (France) out of the new seat with a unbelievable time of 36:36, finally holding off the charging Schweinberger and Lotte Kopecky (Belgium).
Cordon Ragot and Kopecky would spherical out the highest 5 on the day with Olympic highway race champion Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria), Markus, Eugenia Bujak (Slovenia), Elinor Barker (Nice Britain) and Valeriya Kononenko (Ukraine) finishing the highest ten.
Reusser set off final within the 30-ride discipline as the massive favorite for the European title having received each the 2021 and 2022 editions of the race, however handed the primary intermediate time examine one second down on the time set by Schweinberger.
Nonetheless regular service was resumed on the second intermediate time examine which got here after 23 km of all-out driving, as Reusser had constructed an enormous lead and now had solely six kilometres left to navigate with a 27-second benefit over the Austrian and 33 over Henderson.
By the point the Swiss rider reached the tunnel previous the end and handed Riejanne Markus (Netherlands), who completed seventh on the day, it was clear she had solely prolonged her lead and was en path to a 3rd European title.
That is Reusser’s eighth victory of the season in what has been her career-best yr thus far, with a win at Gent-Wevelgem, a Tour de France Femmes stage win and total victories at each Itzulia Girls and the Tour de Suisse to go together with it.
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