World Champs: Tony Martin Destroys the Field to make it two for Germany

Tony Martin destroyed the field, to take his first World Time-Trial championship, by over a minute to Bradley Wiggins in Copenhagen.

Martin went out of the blocks full steam ahead and passed two riders on the way to the finish line, including, the man who beat him to silver in 2010, David Millar. He has had a good run in to the world championships, taking the ITT in the Vuelta in a similar fashion, which many people saw as a sign of what was to come. Nothing seemed to faze the German and defied expectations, by keeping up his high pace on the second lap of the city. Many riders had made the mistake of going out to hard, before fading quickly, but Martin just went faster.

Elite Men's Time-trial Results

1 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) 0:58:09  

2 David Millar (Great Britain) 0:01:02  

3 Tony Martin (Germany) 0:01:12  

4 Richie Porte (Australia) 0:01:19  

5 Michael Rogers (Australia) 0:02:25  

6 Koos Moerenhout (Netherlands) 0:02:40  

7 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spain) 0:02:44  

8 David Zabriskie (United States Of America) 0:02:51  

9 Maciej Bodnar (Poland) 0:03:00  

10 Gustav Larsson (Sweden) 0:03:01  

11 Bert Grabsch (Germany) 0:03:06  

12 Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania) 0:03:07  

13 Vladimir Gusev (Russian Federation) 0:03:27  

14 Carlos Oyarzun (Chile) 0:03:30  

15 Nicolas Vogondy (France) 0:03:39  

16 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine) 0:03:40  

17 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spain) 0:03:42  

18 Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) 0:03:45  

19 Sylvain Chavanel (France) 0:04:00  

20 Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia) 0:04:04  

Elite Men's Time-trial Start list 2010

Find the 2011 start list here

13:00:00 WEEKES James SKN
13:02:00 ZEITS Andrey KAZ
13:04:00 MCCAULEY Gordon NZL
13:06:00 MARYCZ Jaroslaw POL
13:08:00 VELITS Martin SVK
13:10:00 THOMSON Jay Robert RSA
13:12:00 KANGERT Tanel EST
13:14:00 HASANOVIC Esad SRB
13:16:00 GUTIERREZ PALACIOS José Ivan ESP
13:18:00 SERPA PEREZ Jose Rodolfo COL
13:20:00 MORKOV Michael DEN