Overview

• Tadej Pogacar claimed the elite men’s European crown after a 202.5 km race, distancing Remco Evenepoel by 31 seconds on a course featuring repeated ascents of Saint-Romain-de-Lerps and the Cote du Val d’Enfer.
• France’s Paul Seixas secured bronze at 3:41, and two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard was dropped around the race’s midpoint.
• Evenepoel had taken the European time-trial title earlier in the week and was bidding for a rare sweep of road and time-trial titles across Worlds, Euros and the Olympics.
• Demi Vollering won the elite women’s road race with a long-range attack, extending the Netherlands’ dominance to nine victories in the past ten editions; Germany’s Franziska Koch placed fifth and Antonia Niedermaier eighth as Liane Lippert withdrew due to illness.
• Earlier category winners included Germany’s 16-year-old Karl Herzog in the junior men’s race, Spain’s Paula Blasi in the U23 women’s event, and Spain’s Paula Ostiz in the junior women’s race.