World Cycling Championships 2018 Innsbruck: Silver for Germany - Silver for Junior Mayrhofer - first World Championship medal for BDR

However, he had no chance against the super-talented Remco Evenepoel. The Belgian, who only started cycling the previous year, put on a show similar to his title win in the individual time trial. Evenepoel won as a soloist despite a crash and had a 1:25 minute lead over Mayrhofer. Italian Alessandro Fancellu took bronze.

Earlier in the junior women's race, Hannah Ludwig from Heidelberg was only able to finish 19th as the best German. Austria's Laura Stigger took the title over 71.1 kilometres to great jubilation.

The Cycling World Championships will be held in Switzerland in both 2020 (Aigle/Martigny) and 2024 (Bern or Zurich), as confirmed by the UCI in Innsbruck. The double award was made a condition by the Swiss for taking over the World Championships at short notice in two years' time following the cancellation of the northern Italian city of Vicenza. The 2019 World Championships will take place in Yorkshire in northern England.

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