The Portugal Team will compete, between September 24 and 30, at the Road World Championship in Innsbruck, Austria, with twelve cyclists, national coach José Poeira announced today.
The elite team that will represent Portugal on the 30th of September will be composed of Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team), Rúben Guerreiro (Trek-Segafredo), Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates) and Tiago Machado (Team Katusha Alpecin ). It is an experienced and cohesive team, made up of runners accustomed to hard and extensive races, such as the 265-kilometer Austrian World Championship.
The elite selection is also present in the 52.5 kilometer counter, to be run on 26 September. Nelson Oliveira, fourth placed in the 2017 World Cup, will try to be again with the best. For this test was also called the national champion of the specialty, Domingos Gonçalves (Radio Popular-Boavista).
Team Portugal will also line up with four cyclists in the under-23 competition, to compete for 186.2 kilometers on 28 September. José Poeira selected André Carvalho (Liberty Seguros-Carglass), Gonçalo Carvalho (Miranda-Mortágua), João Almeida (Hagens Berman Axeon) and Tiago Antunes (SEG Racing Academy) for this race.
Also in the Under-23 there is a cyclist who competes in the counter-clock and not in the background, whose characteristics are not favorable to him. It is Ivo Oliveira, who shares national attention in the individual exercise with teammate João Almeida. The under-23 counter-clock is set for the 24th and is the first competition for the World Cup program with a Portuguese presence.
Juniors Afonso Silva (Sporting / Tavira / Training Eng. Brito da Mana) and Guilherme Mota (Alcobaça CC / Crédito Agrícola) wear the colors of Portugal in the counter-clock, September 25, and in the background, day 27.
"The course is demanding on all online races and the elite counter. They are very long distances in tracings of great exigency, of the most difficult ones of the last years. We trust all the riders summoned and we are going to work so that, in race, we have possibility to be in the discussion of all the tests. I believe it will be a good World Championship for Portugal, "says José Poeira.
According to the accounts of the International Cycling Union, Innsbruck's elite test will be the 10th with the highest accumulated climb in World Championship history. It is necessary to go back 22 years, until the test of 1996, in Lugano, to find a race with greater degree of hilly hardness. The accumulated in Switzerland was 5145 meters. In Innsbruck will be 4670 meters.
The other back-to-back races are also very difficult, juniors with a cumulative of 1916 meters, distributed by 138.4 kilometers, and the sub-23 with 2910 meters distributed by 186.2 kilometers.
The under-23s and juniors will have 28.5 kilometers, essentially rolling, although they incorporate some false plans and challenging ramps. The individual elite exercise will have 52.5 kilometers, which will be marked by the Gnadenwald ascent - 4.9 kilometers with an average slope of 7.1 per cent and ramps reaching 14 per cent - a difficulty placed 22 kilometers from the end .
Rui Costa, 2013 world champion, and Nelson Oliveira, fourth placed in the counter-clock in 2017, are the runners with the best results in the history of elite Portuguese cycling in the Road World Championship.
Team Portugal Schedule
September 24
13h40-15h50: Counter-clock Sub-23 - Hall-Wattens - Innsbruck, 28,5 km
September 25th
9h10-11h40: Counter-clock Juniors - Hall-Wattens - Innsbruck, 28,5 km
September 26
13h10-16h00: Counter-clock Elite - Alpbachtal Seenland - Innsbruck, 52.5 km
September 27th
13h40-17h15: Juniors - Kufstein - Innsbruck, 138.4 km
September 28th
11h10-15h50: Sub-23 Field Trial - Kufstein - Innsbruck, 186.2 km
September 30th
8h40-15h40: Elite Backstroke - - Kufstein - Innsbruck, 265 km
2018-09-17 - 13:13:00
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