Yevgeniy Fedorov: Kazakhstan star stuns favourites to take under-23 road race title at World Championships

Kazakhstan's WorldTour star, Yevgeniy Fedorov, was an unlikely winner of the World Championships under-23 road race in Wollongong. Having tried several times before, the Astana rider finally snuck away with Czechia's Mathias Vacek in a late move after the break of the day had been reeled in. That had held out for most of the previous three-and-a-half hours, with France's Mathis Le Berre the hardiest resistor.

Ad In the closing kilometres Vacek and Fedorov were able to take advantage of disorganisation and a lack of firepower in what was left of the bunch. They hung on to a few seconds, before extending their advantage to around a dozen by the home straight. World ChampionshipsJunior road race highlights: 'Speed demon' Herzog denies Morgado in two-up sprint2 HOURS AGO Fedorov took the victory in straightforward fashion, by simply having the most left in his legs to sprint as his winning margin was clocked at more than a second.

Soren Waerenskjold (Norway) won the sprint behind for the remaining podium place. At 1pm local time in the pouring rain the riders set out for kilometre zero, the screech of disc brakes echoing around the tightly-packed peloton. The swarm around the car showed how many were determined not to get caught out by missing an early move.

Two more laps for the under-23s than the junior men meant a total of 10, for a distance just over 100 miles. At the drop of the flag, the German team massed at the front of the race, setting the pace to high and stringing the peloton out in a long line behind. Without a sprinter of note they seemed to have a plan to foil any ambitions of other teams, such as the Netherlands, for a bunch finish.