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Sven-Ole Wieth becomes World Champion for third time
By Richard W. Wallace
Published: Dein 1581


Oslanburgan champion Sven-Ole Wieth


Chatois, Kyrland - Oslanburgan sprinter Sven-Ole Wieth won the World Championship Men's Road Race, becoming the third incumbent champion to win the title. Previously, only Nerysian Julien Herbstritt (1562, 1563) and Vallish Sebastian Lescott (1571, 1572).

Wieth defeated the main favourite, Florinthian sprinter Richard Malone in a mass sprint which decided the World Championship between the 112 riders who remained in the main peloton after 227 km. Goldecian Skanda Basak was third and achieved the bronze medal, his second medal as he obtained the silver medal a year ago in Lauren, Valland. Mordvanian Samo Mahnik was fourth while Sainamese Yoneda Arata, who headed the final sprint for many metres before being caught by his fastest rivals, was fifth.

It is the third World Championship title for Sven-Ole Wieth, 27, becoming the second rider to achieve that record after Nerysian Julien Herbstritt, who won three World Championships in 1557, 1562, and 1563. Wieth had previously won the World Championship in 1577, surprising everyone and defeating the main favourite, Vallish sprinter Philippe Peaugeot. Wieth was only 23, barely just a promising sprinter back then, who was expected to serve as a pacemarker for the veteran Oslanburgan sprinter Troels Moller, who withdrew at the first half of the race.

The Oslanburg sprinter made history and redeemed himself again after another relatively disappointing season, specially in the Grand Tours, where he was only to win an individual stage during the 1580 and 1581 seasons. It had been rumoured that several teams -NDM Cycling, NVB-Anzcell, and Mordvelo Cycling between others- were interested to sign up the Oslanburgan champion, but it is expected that Scholden-Gulcron would try to retain their sprinting star after this historical victory.

Wieth will have an unique chance of ending the 1582 season as the greatest World Championship champion as the first and only rider to win both a third World Championship in a row and four-time World Champion. The Oslanburgan rider has declared that "it will be a beautiful challenge", but that he is not obsessed about that historical record, and he will focus to prepare the 1582 season in order to improve his results in the Spring season and the Grand Tours, even hinting to try to defeat Malone as Point classification winner in the Tour de Valland. The Florinthian sprinter aims to win the Tour de Valland's Point classification for third time, after being the most successful sprinter along the season, winning 9 Grand Tour's individual stages in 1581.

"Although I wouldn't mind if I could have the chance of winning the title a third time in a row again in the future", Wieth joked before the ceremony. Next year the World Championship will be hold in Nueva Ávila, Magentina, the first World Championship ever in the Mandavines region.

With Wieth's win and Amanda Beck winning the Women's ITT title, Oslanburg was the best national team in the Cycling World Championship for a second year in a row, winning two golden medals and a bronze, to be added to the one gold, two silvers, and bronze obtained in 1580.