Cycling at the 2015 European Games – Women's individual time trial


The women's individual time trial cycling event at the 2015 European Games in Baku took place over a distance of 25.8 km on 18 June starting and finishing at Bilgah Beach. The course of the race was quite flat and not very technical with a turning point halfway.
Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands won the time trial with force majeure ahead of Hanna Solovey from Ukraine and Annemiek van Vleuten from the Netherlands.

Race

In the morning of the competition it was sunny with a very strong wind. Because the wind was stronger than the days before, Ellen van Dijk chose another wheel for her bike before the start.
The first rider started at 10:00 with one minute between every rider. For a long time the intermediate and final times of Annemiek van Vleuten from the Netherlands, who started early in the competition, were the fastest times. The intermediate time of Hanna Solovey from Ukraine was seven seconds faster than Van Vleuten. A bit later Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands, the main favorite who started last, was 14 seconds faster than Solovey. On the finish line the Russian Tatiana Antoshina finished just a few seconds slower than Van Vleuten. Solovey was on the finish about half a minute faster than Van Vleuten and Van Dijk was subsequently half a minute faster than Solovey. Ellen van Dijk was very pleased with her win: "It is the first European Games and that is quite special. This was a race I have been preparing for, for a long time. I have been training at high altitude. I wanted to be very strong in this period and that worked out great. It was very tough today, especially with the wind, but then again it's the same circumstances for everyone. I was able to get into a rhythm quickly and I could keep up the pace. This is what I can do, but it didn't feel particularly great on this course. It's hard to concentrate when it's only one straight road ahead. There's not much to do while riding. You just have to push and push."

Results

RankRiderNationTimeBehind
Ellen van Dijk32:26.87
Hanna Solovey33:03.37
Annemiek van Vleuten33:33.56+1:06.69
4Tatiana Antoshina33:38.73+1:11.86
5Martina Ritter33:51.77+1:24.90
6Olena Pavlukhina33:57.45+1:30.58
7Ann-Sophie Duyck34:05.21+1:38.34
8Alena Amialiusik34:07.32+1:40.45
9Eugenia Bujak34:38.82+2:11.95
10Camilla Møllebro34:50.63+2:23.76
11Tatsiana Sharakova35:03.41+2:36.54
12Dana Rožlapa35:18.39+2:51.52
13Sari Saarelainen35:21.73+2:54.86
14Mia Radotić35:27.80+3:00.93
15Caroline Ryan35:29.55+3:02.68
16Polona Batagelj35:33.69+3:06.82
17Annabelle Dreville35:33.97+3:07.10
18Aušrinė Trebaitė35:38.19+3:11.32
19Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen35:57.58+3:30.71
20Anna Plichta36:00.51+3:33.64
21Natalia Boyarskaya36:06.34+3:39.47
22Sheyla Gutierrez Ruiz36:14.28+3:47.41
23Tatiana Guderzo36:18.25+3:51.38
24Liisi Rist36:21.96+3:55.09
25Rossella Ratto36:22.26+3:55.39
26Varvara Fasoi36:24.82+3:57.95
27Zuzana Neckářová36:42.48+4:15.61
28Séverine Eraud36:45.99+4:19.12
29Tereza Medveďová39:06.78+6:39.91
30Ayşenur Turgut41:53.64+9:26.77