Cycling - Sunweb shine with team time trial double at world championships


  • Cycling
  • Sunday, 17 Sep 2017

Riders of Team Sunweb compete in the Men's Team Time Trial in the UCI Road World Championships in Bergen, Norway September 17, 2017. NTB Scanpix/Cornelius Poppe via REUTERS

BERGEN, Norway (Reuters) - Team Sunweb achieved the double at the road cycling world championships when their men's and women's teams won the team time trial events on Sunday.

Giro d'Italia champion Tom Dumoulin, Lennard Kamna, Sam Oomen, Soren Kragh Andersen, Michael Matthews and Wilco Kelderman clocked 47 minutes 50.42 seconds on the 42.5-km course to beat 2014 and 2015 champions BMC by 8.29 seconds.

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