Biker Hynek won bronze for the second time at the marathon World Championship, Kulhavý did not finish
Long-distance specialist Hynek was bronze three weeks ago in European competition in Sigulda, Latvia. Today he has lost less than a minute to the victorious Portuguese Tiaga Ferreira and 37 seconds to the second Austrian Alban Lakatu, who defended the title and is on the podium on a regular basis. “It’s just bronze again, just like in Europe. The bronze is definitely great, but it wasn’t a big day again. I didn’t feel bad, but it was better yesterday. In addition, we were very active with Jara at the beginning, we basically drove the two of us, ”said Hynek for the server mtbs.cz. .But during the race, Howard Grotts and then Leonardo Páez took the trio. “We drove at five, Páez seemed weak, often falling off, but still sticking. Then Grotts dropped out, Jara had a puncture that he repaired in the depot and immediately knocked us off again, ”said Hynek. “Too bad, I felt good today, I believed in a good result. At first I got a stick in my bike and tore my brake hose out and then I had to deal with two defects, one butt, which I still exchanged and was still in the lead group, but somewhere on the 62nd kilometer he came to the front and it was de facto over, “Kulhavý explained.” We stayed alone with Ferreira and Paseo, “said Hynek.But in the last hill, the crisis had just come to him. “I was tinny, I slashed. The guys missed me and Alban came to the top of the hill and we had three and a half minutes. Unfortunately, I was the opposite, I didn’t have the strength to put it down the hill. ”When Hynek seemed to end up without a medal, the hit came from above. “In the downhill before the finish line, Páez fell, broke the handlebars and I got on the crate,” said Hynek.
The remaining Czech bikers Jiří Novák, Matouš Ulman and Pavel Boudný were in the 25th place. Of the two Czech women Tereza Nemcova was better, who was on the 70 km long track with a 2580 meter twelfth elevation. Jana Pichlikova was 24.place.
“I went perfectly to somewhere in the thirty kilometer to the finish line, where I was slashed and I lost the top ten, where I was until that time,” regretted the home champion Němcová.
