{"id":163800,"date":"2025-09-23T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:44:13","slug":"wilson-haffenden-takes-4th-in-world-championship-time-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163800\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson-Haffenden takes 4th in World Championship time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felicity Wilson-Haffenden has led the charge for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in the under-23 individual time trials at the UCI World Championships today.<\/p>\n<p>The Tasmanian finished fourth, just 10 seconds off the podium, in the under-23 women&#8217;s event in Kigali \u2212 replicating <a href=\"https:\/\/australiancyclingteam.com\/news\/brodie-chapman-worlds-itt-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what Brodie Chapman achieved<\/a> in the elite women&#8217;s race 24 hours prior.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Felicity Wilson-Haffenden competing for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in the  2025 UCI Road World Championships - BK Arena to Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda - Women Under-23 Individual Time Trial (ITT)\" height=\"2667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW6_7943.jpg 32.jpg\" width=\"4000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Tasmanian left it all out there on the roads of Kigali. (Alex Whitehead \/ SWpix.com)<\/p>\n<p>Wilson-Haffenden, 20, went out hard on the 22.6-kilometre course starting inside Kigali&#8217;s BK Arena. She set what was then by far the the fastest times at both intermediate check points.<\/p>\n<p>However, after she  crested the cobbled climb and the steep gradients towards the finish at Kigali Convention Centre, she could only stop the clock in provisional second position.<\/p>\n<p>Her time was ultimately pushed down to fourth, meaning that Wilson-Haffenden would have to wait for a future opportunity to add to her <a href=\"https:\/\/australiancyclingteam.com\/news\/how-felicity-wilson-haffenden-became-junior-time-trial-world-champion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gold medal at the World Championships two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Raced with my heart and left a little broken,&#8221; she posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DO6lq2OjMo6\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. &#8220;Taking the positives from the first 20km and looking for answers for the disastrous final 2km. 4th is still a big step and leaves me hungry for more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Australia&#8217;s Alli Anderson also put in a strong ride against the clock to finish eighth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alli Anderson competing for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in the  2025 UCI Road World Championships - BK Arena to Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda - Women Under-23 Individual Time Trial (ITT)\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CA1_3301.jpg\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alli Anderson posted another top-10 result for Australia. (Chris Auld \/ SWpix.com)<\/p>\n<p>In the under-23 men&#8217;s race, Tasmania&#8217;s Hamish McKenzie \u2212 who <a href=\"https:\/\/australiancyclingteam.com\/news\/worlds-mckenzie-wins-bronze-u23-time-trial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won bronze in this event in 2023<\/a> \u2212 posted another top-10 result for Australia, finishing 1 minute 48 seconds down on the winner. Zac Marriage completed the day in 21st place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hamish McKenzie competing for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in the  2025 UCI Road World Championships - BK Arena to Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda - Men Under-23 Individual Time Trial (ITT)\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SW6_3378 32.jpg\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hamish McKenzie leaves BK Arena in Kigali. (Simon Wilkinson \/ SWpix.com)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zachary Marriage competing for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in the  2025 UCI Road World Championships - BK Arena to Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda - Men Under-23 Individual Time Trial (ITT)\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SW6_3260.jpg\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zac Marriage accelerates down the start ramp. (Simon Wilkinson \/ SWpix.com)<\/p>\n<p>Results &#8211; Women U23 Individual Time Trial<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Zoe Backstedt (GBR)  30:56.16<br \/>\ud83e\udd48 Viktoria Chladonova\u0148ova (SVK) +1:50<br \/>\ud83e\udd49 Federica Venturelli (ITA) +2:11<br \/>4. Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (AUS) +2:21<br \/>8. Alli Anderson (AUS) +2:53<\/p>\n<p>Results &#8211; Men U23 Individual Time Trial<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Jakob Soderqvist (SWE) 38:24.43<br \/>\ud83e\udd48 Nate Pringle (NZL) +1:03<br \/>\ud83e\udd49 Maxime Decomble (FRA) +1:04<br \/>10. Hamish McKenzie (AUS) +1:48<br \/>21. Zachary Marriage (AUS) +3:48<\/p>\n<p>Feature photo:  Zac Williams \/ SWpix.com<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felicity Wilson-Haffenden has led the charge for the ARA Australian Cycling Team in the under-23 individual time trials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-163800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}