Today, Tinkoff-Saxo’s Michael Rogers, Nicolas Roche, Manuele Boaro, Daniele Bennati, Michael Valgren and Christopher Juul-Jensen took part of the annual team time trial World Championships over 57.1 kilometers where their efforts brought them to 5th position.

Crossing the intermediate time check after 23 kilometers, the Tinkoff-Saxo riders were in fourth position and passing the second and third time check, they were up to second place behind BMC. Entering the finish line, the five remaining Tinkoff-Saxo riders stood up in the pedals and sprinted across the finish in second place so far, 46 seconds behind Team BMC.

Covering the 57.1 kilometers in 1 hour, four minutes and 16seconds was enough to improve last year’s 9th place to fifth.

“Before we took on the race, our goal was to improve last year’s result and we did. So we obtained our goal and we should be happy. On the other hand, we were only seconds away from the podium and that always frustrates you at the finish when we’re all a lot wiser. Maybe we could have started a bit faster than we did but we had to decide on the course what to do and we wanted to be able to maintain a good pace all the way and actually, we did push the pace as the race progressed. So all in all, I’m happy about the result”, said Mauduit.