Road | Plapp powers to time trial silver in Austria

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Brunswick Cycling Club's Luke Plapp claimed silver in the junior men's time trial at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.

Plapp powered across the 27.8km course to post the fastest time of the day to that point, however Belgian Remco Evenepoel powered home to claim gold almost one and a half minutes ahead of the Australian. Italian Andrea Piccolo claimed bronze. 

The medal adds to the Melbourne cyclist's dual track world titles (Points Race & Madison) he won at the 2018 UCI Junior Track World Championships in Switzerland in August. 

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Asymetric chainrings for @CyclingAus Lucas Plapp ??
What do yout hink of it?
Game changer or just a hype? #InnsbruckTirol2018 pic.twitter.com/dFBgyyOids

— UCI (@UCI_cycling) September 25, 2018

Luke Plapp

I woke up so excited, just wanted to race and send it! 'No nerves, no hope' I thought to myself when the butterflies started flying around!

I wasn't sure how to feel about my time crossing the line. I was confident my time would be up there, but little did I know how much it would get beaten by!

Pretty stoked with the silver and has been an unreal couple of months. It is a bitter-sweet feeling of silver.  'Never put a number on to come second' but there was nothing I could have done to get the top step!

The course was crazy, it had a little bit of everything. So many climbs and so many descents!

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