Seems like the organisation thinks the sprinters who are also strong rouleurs have the biggest chance of being victorious. Let’s find out who will wear a fancy jersey next year and also has the chance to appear in the A-race.
And we have the first attack coming from Rwanda! S. Mugisha gets the company of nine others: Irishman McCarthy, other Mugisha, Serbian Kasa, Indonesian Abdurrahman, more Irishmen in Mullen and Downey, other Indonesian Setiawa and Hungarians Sipos and Moricz. Fejes also trying to close the gap, whereas the Irishmen don’t have a lot of faith in leader Bennett apparently. Statue of Liberty chilling in the back.
Fejes makes it 11 at the front. The teams working in the peloton are Japan, Sweden, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Moldova, Canada, Albania, Finland and China. Peloton now riding through Central Park Reservoir.
Some more sightseeing for the attackers here at the Flat Iron Building, as their gap is going down already. Maximum was five minutes, it is now 4’30” with more or less 190 km left.
We have some sections of up to 10% on the parcours as well. Right behind them the riders can takein the view of the South Street Seaport and the famous Brooklyn Bridge.
Oh, and of course, the Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Anyway, enough of the NY tourism advertisement for now, let’s see if the peloton is strong enough to reel in the several teams in the breakaway!
65 km to go, two laps left! The peloton now at two minutes of the breakaway, which still exists out of 11 riders. The gap has been decreasing slowly, let’s see if the eleven up front have been able to save something for the end!
Still 50 km to go as the front of the race starts attacking each other, which is not very promising for their survival chances! S. Mugisha the first to go for it, now a counter by Setiawa!
Canada’s Cataford ensures everyone being caught with still 27 km to the finish line, as we are inside the final lap! Only survivor still is Downey, he has 30” over the peloton!
Thanks to some Greek efforts, with Bouglas clearly as a domestique today and Farantakis the sprinter, Downey is also Do(w)ne(y) with 22 km left!
14 km left! China and Latvia very present at the front, together with Albania’s Yzeiraj! Is he going for an attack?!
It is Kortsidakis attacking inside the final ten km! Arashiro likes the idea and tries to join!
The Chinese rider is unable to do so, but now Novardianto uses the Greek as a launch pad! Final six km and it’s Japan chasing together with Latvia!
Becis closes the gap! 3.5 km to go, not really a lot of organisation at the front anymore! Best positioned sprinters are Kemboi (Kenya), Grosu (Romania), Liepins (Latvia), Houle (Canada), Eislers (Latvia), Manarelli (Brazil), Liu (China), Manninen (Finland), Kamberaj (Albania), Hsu (Taiwan), Kalaba (Serbia), Perera (Sri Lanka) and Haller (Austria)!
And the sprint is really on now! Liepins leading the pack with leader Eislers in his wheel as there are 1.5 km to go! The others all following them are Grosu, Manninen, Liu, Anderberg, Kemboi, Manarelli, Kamberaj and Hsu!
Eislers waits until after the red kite to open his sprint, but Grosu immediately takes the lead with 700 metres to go! Behind him is Manninen, and others still looking very good are Kamberaj and Kemboi!
And it’s these last four going for it indeed! 400 metres to go, three Europeans versus one African!
Hsu coming from behind with incredible speed, but with 200 metres left it looks like Kenya will be victorious!
Very clear victory for the Kenyan! Nobody else on the finish photo! The two-men team (with domestique Hussein) wins the New York B-world championship and will soon be able to do it all again!
Manninen holds on for second with Hsu also on the podium! Liu is fourth for China with Kamberaj a nice fifth for Albania, while places six to eight go to Grosu, Houle and Kalaba.
The top-10 is completed by Latvian Eislers and the Austrian Mr. Tour of America Marco Haller.
B World Championship Road Race - New York 
