Welcome to Sweden! This year's national championship road race should be called Spotify vs. the others. The biggest favourite is Lövkivst and his team mate Ludvigsson. Lundberg, Bjelkmark, Öste-Macdonald and Faglum Karlsson should be the other medal challengers.
Startlist:
Spoiler
Bertilsson
Christian
Carlsberg - Danske Bank
Lundberg
Ludvig
Carlsberg - Danske Bank
Öste-Macdonald
Max
Carlsberg - Danske Bank
Dahlberg
Linus
Eddie Stobart
Lindgren
Johan
Grieg - Eftel
Olsson
Michael
Grieg - Eftel
Bengtsson
Filip
Netia - Vónin
Ahlstrand
Jonas
Spotify - Haglöfs
Bjelkmark
Jonas
Spotify - Haglöfs
Johansson
Freddy
Spotify - Haglöfs
Lövkvist
Thomas
Spotify - Haglöfs
Ludvigsson
Fredrik
Spotify - Haglöfs
Ludvigsson
Tobias
Spotify - Haglöfs
Wetterhall
Alexander
Spotify - Haglöfs
Dahlberg
Anders Ekh
Telia-Brussels Airlines
Magnusson
Kim
Telia-Brussels Airlines
Faglum Karlsson
Marcus
Valio - DeLaval
Höög
Gustav
Valio - DeLaval
Lindau
Philip
Valio - DeLaval
With 20 km to go a group of 10 riders gets away from the main field. These are: T.Ludvigsson Lövkivst F.Ludvigsson Faglum Karlsson Öste-Macdonald Lundberg Bjelkmark Lindau Ahlstrand Olsson
After a few kms it is quite clear nobody else will get back into the fight for medals today.
10 km to the finish line and only 6 riders remain in the leading group. These are: Öste-Macdonald Lundberg T.Ludvigsson Faglum Karlsson Lövkivst Bjelkmark
With 5 km remaining we finally have an attack! The biggest favourite Lövkivst is immediately followed by Faglum Karlsson and Bjelkmark. Lundberg is able to at least get away from T.Ludvigsson and Öste-Macdonald, but his gap to the front trio is already more than a half minute.
Only 3 km to go and Faglum Karlsson cracks under the fast tempo of Lövkivst. Looks like Spotify are coasting to winning the jersey!
And Lövkivst drops his teammate Bjelkmark just before the final sprint is just about to begin...
The new Swedish champion is Thomas Lövkivst!
Bjelkmark comes in 2nd to underline Spotify's dominating race, as Faglum Karlsson takes the 3rd place.
The time trial should be a battle between several Spotify riders, most notably Johansson, as Lindgren should be the most likely challenger from non-Spotify riders.
Alexander Wetterhall sets the benchmark time: 69'50".
Thomas Lövkvist beats his team mate comfortably - 69'12" [-37"].
Tobias Ludvigsson just misses to take the lead - 69'14" [+2"].
Anders Bjelkmark just misses the provisional bronze medal - 69'52" [+40"].
Johan Lindgren takes the provisional lead - 68'56" [-15"]!
But the last rider on the start totally smashes all the times in an amazing manner: Freddy Johansson is the new Swedish Time Trial Champion with time 66'52" [-2'04"].
