Kristin Armstrong, Golden Once Again
Kristin Armstrong (shown above after winning the 2008 Beijing Olympic Time Trial), who had already announced her retirement from the sport at the end of this year, capped a platinum career with a golden effort in the Individual Time Trial at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, which began today and run through the 26th of September. The victory was Armstrong's second at the World Championships, her first coming in 2006 in the same event.
The reigning Olympic Gold Medalist would set the fastest times at each interval over the two lap, 26.8km course and finish with a time of 35:26.09. Armstrong's average speed of 45.379 km/h was a full kilometer per hour faster than second place finisher, Noemi Cantele of Italy. Denmark's Linda Melanie Villumsen would round out the podium.
Americans Amber Neben and Jessica Phillips, who is the current US National Time Trial Champion, would finish in 6th and 14th place, respectively.
Results
1. Kristin Armstrong (USA)
2. Noemi Cantele (ITA)
3. Linda Melanie Villumsen (DEN)
4. Judith Arndt (GER)
5. Christiane Soeder (AUT)
6. Amber Neben (USA)
7. Tatiana Antoshina (RUS)
8. Tara Witten (CAN)
9. Karen Thurig (SWI)
10. Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (FRA)
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