{"id":4979,"date":"2024-09-24T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/gb-miss-out-on-para-cycling-medals-at-world-championships-in-zurich\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T08:55:35","slug":"gb-miss-out-on-para-cycling-medals-at-world-championships-in-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/gb-miss-out-on-para-cycling-medals-at-world-championships-in-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"GB miss out on Para-cycling medals at World Championships in Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain missed out on Para-cycling medals on the third day of action at the Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris McDonald and pilot Adam Duggleby placed fifth in the men&#8217;s B individual time trial &#8211; two minutes 09.33 seconds behind Dutch champions Tristan Bangma and Patrick Bos, and 1:18.22 off the podium places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paralympic medallist Archie Atkinson, 20, was sixth in the men&#8217;s C4 individual time trial, 1:25.07 behind bronze, while Will Bjergfelt missed out on the medals by 1:01.07 in sixth in the C5 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Ben Wiggins &#8211; the 19-year-old son of 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley &#8211; placed 18th in the men&#8217;s Under-23 individual time trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team-mate Josh Charlton was 20th, as Ireland&#8217;s Darren Rafferty finished sixth &#8211; 1:01.52 behind Spanish champion Ivan Romeo Abad and 20.84 secs off the podium places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Debutants Dylan Sage and Finlay Tarling finished 12th and 24th respectively in the men&#8217;s junior individual time trial, in which France&#8217;s Paul Seixas triumphed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are 55 Great British athletes taking part in the first combined UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships from 21-29 September, with most races being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cwyl903k1gko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">shown on the BBC Sport website and app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c98y120l1r3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain missed out on Para-cycling medals on the third day of action at the Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland. Chris McDonald and pilot Adam Duggleby placed fifth in the men&#8217;s B individual time trial &#8211; two minutes 09.33 seconds behind Dutch champions Tristan Bangma and Patrick Bos, and 1:18.22 off the podium places. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}