Having overseen the most successful season to date for an Australian U23 national team in Europe, James Victor is confident of further success at the Bergen Worlds later this month.
In his debut season at the national coach, Victor guided Michael Matthews to the U23 rainbow jersey on home soil in Geelong and Luke Durbridge to silver in the time trial. In the following years, Caleb Ewan claimed silver in the 2014 Worlds, winning the bunch sprint behind solo victor Sven Erik Bystrom.
Against the clock, Victor has also overseen rainbow jerseys for Durbridge, Damien Howson, and Campbell Flakemore, with ten medals in total during his seven years running the U23 programme.
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For the 2017 Worlds, Victor and the selection panel "deliberated over numbers" for the 191km road race, before settling on a five-man team with Callum Scotson the sole representative for the time trial.
"The U23 group that I've had in Europe this year is clearly the most successful U23 team we've ever had in Europe, and the boys have podiumed in every U23 podium race they've started in Europe," Victor told Cyclingnews of the U23 team. "Except for the first race in Italy on April 2. They've consistently been a successful group and their confidence is at a new level.
"Without having a pure sprinter, I don't anticipate it will be a big bunch sprint like Qatar last year, our objective is to reduce the group as much as possible in the last couple of laps. I think we have a couple of options to play in those laps to get someone on the podium."
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