The Dane took his first victory of the season after a dominant display at the National ITT Championships.
Kasper Asgreen is once again the best time triallist in Denmark. After being forced to miss last year’s edition due to injury, the 28-year-old returned at the start of the competition this Thursday and blitzed the individual time trial in Aalborg, held over a flat 39.6km course.
Victorious at the Nationals three years in a row between 2019 and 2021, Kasper showed from the very beginning of the race that he was a man on a mission, recording the fastest time at the first checkpoint and putting himself on track for a fourth success on home turf. At the next two splits, the man from Kolding kept increasing the lead, and thanks to a phenomenal average speed close to 52km/h, he took a comfortable victory after stopping the clock in 45:42.
“It feels great to win the ITT Nationals for the fourth time in my career. This success is more special than the others, because I had to fight and work hard in the last year or so to come back to my level, and this win is a confirmation of the good feeling I had in the last couple of weeks, both in training and races.”
“The course here in Aalborg was very much to my liking. I knew I was going pretty well from the start, and when I heard that I was 17 seconds ahead at the second split I got an extra boost of confidence that the win was within my reach, and kept riding hard. It’s really nice to cap off such a strong ride with a victory”, added Kasper, the 11th different Soudal Quick-Step rider to take a win this year.
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