Belgium World Cup **RESULTS RESULTS** (2 of 3)- World Cup Round 2 2019

Day 2 dawned dull and grey with less of the trike toppling headwinds for all of the two wheeler action. That doesn't mean some exciting performances didn't go down; they may not be trikes but 2 wheelers are still quite cool ;)- I say 2 wheelers,not the official term of solos, because I'm including the tandemonium tandems.

I'm publishing this on day 3 having raced and travelled straight back to the UK...have seen Crystal has just won gold and will get on it ASAP watch out for the third and last instalment of this!

I did a neat wee tweet so here you go. Fav performance is George Peasgood who should be in Japan right now with Para-Tri but has taken inspiration from the Huub Wattbike cycling boys- Huub infamous triathlon sponsors too. George brings their aero prowess to the Paracycling scene whilst still fully committed to staying for Paratri for his Tokyo 2020 campaign (Twitter is my source here ha). He beat the whole MC4 field- more than 40s clear of silver. I have a feeling he didn't do a run in the morning but wouldn't put it past George to have taken a dip in the North Sea after...which was a mere 100m from the end of the time trial course.

Photos are few and far between my source is here.

Katie Toft is always my favourite really. She's one of those people whose smile takes up her whole face (perfect smile to face ratio imo, other people's smaller and inferior smiles now disappoint me) and now she has a bad-ass golden helmet for Kask. She's always had a badass interior but now her exterior matches. She won gold too, her Aussie competitor Kaitlyn, hot on her heels. Kaitlyn is supported fully by Cycling Australia. Unfun fact about Katie is that she is the only World Champion in the whole of Paracycling not on programme with their National Governing Body.

Our tandem endurance girls had quality competition from NZL and Ireland coming in Bronze and battered after a top effort of going incredibly, incredibly fast. Four legs is better than two every time.

MC3 Ben Watson smashed his two British competitors bringing home bronze and I'm so happy for the TT star who got onto the team through his efforts on this course a year ago.


Fin who is also an MC3 came 9th- vvv impressive. His team mate Matthew Robertson who has come up on the team with him matched his performance with 9th in the MC2 category. MC2 Simon Price, a road only MC2, was unlucky 13th this time but has an impressive history of medalling which bodes well for Sunday's road race. Jaco who used to be an MC4 is now a better fit for MC3 made a nice wee MC3 British sandwich, 6th in his race.

Shoutouts go to MC2 Ryan Taylor with 18th in his (first!?) World Cup race? And Scottish tandem who add yet two more tandem Lauras to the mix. Laura Cx2 hehe. Strong 10th along with MC5 David Murphy.




@BritishCycling athletes: @loraturnham @Corrinehall
@BennyWatson89 @WBjergfelt 5th #mannyrobertson 9th @FinGparacyclist 9th @simonpricey 13th Indies: @KatieToft
@george_peasgood
@jacovangass 6th #ryantaylor 18th @pixielaurac & #lauraclode 10th #davidmurphy 10th