Remco Evenepoel has added another gold medal to a splendid year of results. Barely one week after his triumph in the Road World Championships time trial (his third victory in a row) in Kigali, Rwanda, the Belgian has taken another victory at the UEC Road European Championship time trial, that took place in a 24km race in Drome-Ardèche, France.
Evenepoel had already achieved a "triple crown" in time trials: the World Time Trial Championships (three times in 2023, 2024, and 2025), the Olympic Games Time Trial in Paris last year, and now a second European Time Trial Championships after one of his first major victories in 2019.
The 25-year-old Belgian from Soudal Quick-Step crossed the finish line in 28:26 seconds, 43 seconds ahead of Filippo Ganna and 1:08 ahead of Danish cyclist Niklas Larsen.
"I'm super happy to take another title... the wind was pretty strong, always on the head or a little bit on the side, so it was really difficult sometimes to control the bike and to take the corner properly, but I think we managed everything well", he said (via Cycling Weekly).