Team Sky rider claims first professi𒐪onal victory against the🌊 clock
Leopold König (Team Sky) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Team Sky's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Leopold König ended 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jan Barta's (Bora-Argon 18) four year run of winning the red, ♛white and blue jersey at the Czech national time trial titles to automatically secure a position in the Rio Olympic Games. The win was König's first against the clock as he🐈 covered the 50km Hodonin course in 1:08:01, eight seconds ahead of Barta.
"It's my first title and it༒ also means nomination for Rio as well - automatic selection for the time trial and road race - so I'm double happy!," König said in a release from his team.
König was a non-starter on the finalღ stage of the Tour de Suisse earlier this month, having finished 16th in the Davos time trial, due to a sore throat but showed no signs of illness to claim his firs🌺t win of the season.
"Barta is one of the top 10 time trialists in the world I would say. He's been top 10 many times at the world championships and he's hard to beat. So it is a good achievement, especially after such a long period with♌out training and the injury. I'm extremely happy it worked out," added the bronze meda🅠llist from 2010.
The 28-year-old has had a reduced racing programme in his second season with Team Sky 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:as a persistent knee injury leaving him on the sidelines for four mꦛonths and limiting him to just four races - Trofeo Pollenca - Port de Andratx, Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana aꦅnd Suisse.
"I felt great after the Tour deܫ Suisse. I knew that after the injury if I did a hard race like that the shape would come," he said.
Runner-up in the road race last year to Petr Vakoc (Etixx-QuickStep), and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Petr Benčík in 2011, König will turn his attention to claiming a sec🍸ond national champions jersey of the week.
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"Next for me it's the roadꦓ r💟ace on Sunday and for sure I'm aiming for a double!," he said.
Seventh on his Tour de France 🌜debut in 2014, König was 70th last year as helped teammate Chris Froome to a second yellow jersey but won't be mak൩ing a return in 2016 due to his lack of race days and focus on the Rio Olympic Games.
