In the absence of defending world champion Bradley Wiggins, Tony Martin is aiming to bring Germany a fourth world title in the elite men’s individual time trial held on Wednesday at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia.
Martin has won the event on three occasions, in 2011 in Denmark, 2012 in The Netherlands and 2013 in Italy. Last year, however, Wiggins broke his winning streak in Ponferrada and left him to settle for the silver medal.
Martin has had a strong season with time trial wins at the Volta ao Algarve, Tour de Romandie and the German championships. Although he was second in the opening time trial at the Tour de France to Rohan Dennis, he went on to win stage 4 and take the yellow jersey. An unfortunate crash, while in the race lead, at the finish line of stage 6 forced him to abandon because of a fractured collarbone.
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He took time off to recover from the accident and returned to take the overall win at the Tour du Poitou Charentes. Instead of racing the Vuelta a Espana, he started the pair of WorldTour races in Quebec and Montreal earlier in September, and then recently helped his Etixx-QuickStep team to a silver medal in the team time trial at Worlds on Sunday.
In an interview with Cyclingnews from the start line of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal, Martin said that he has learned a valuable lesson from last year’s loss at the World Championships, one that he hopes to put to good use in this year’s time trial when he faces steep competition from riders like of Rohan Dennis (Australia) and Tom Dumoulin (The Netherlands), among others.
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