{"id":398434,"date":"2026-01-07T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:27:10","slug":"william-holmes-wins-mens-u23-time-trial-at-australian-road-national-championships-by-just-one-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398434\/","title":{"rendered":"William Holmes wins men’s U23 time trial at Australian Road National Championships by just one second"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Holmes (Hagens Berman-Jayco) claimed the U23 men’s time trial in a tight battle with Julian Baudry (Team Brennan) on the opening day of competition on Wednesday at the Westbridge Funds Road National Championships.<\/a><\/p>\n

Holmes delivered a time of 36.38.58 in the 29.3km men’s time trial on the 9.8km circuit in Bold Park with a relatively flat start and a hairpin turn. That was just one second faster than Baudry, who last year claimed the U23 men’s road race title, while Lucas Stevenson (Team Brennan) was third 33 seconds back.<\/p>\n

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Riders set out into temperatures of around 30\u00b0C in the late afternoon, with the third starter Vinnie Manion (Hagens Berman-Jayco) holding his position in the hot seat till well into the final stages with his time of 37:51.68. However, Holmes, who was the sixth last rider to set out, changed that.<\/p>\n

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Manion was ultimately pushed down to fifth place, behind Holmes, Baudry, Stevenson and Max Goold (NSN Development Team), who slotted into fourth with a time of 37:24: 64.<\/p>\n

“I’m super-happy to pull this off and start the year well,” Holmes told SBS.<\/a> “It’s been a lot of hard work into this. Last year [2025] I didn’t have the year I really wanted to, I struggled a little bit at a few points.<\/p>\n

“But I reset well, the team’s been really good and helpful and I’m super-happy to be able to pull it off.<\/p>\n

“Of course I’d have liked it to be a bigger gap, but [it was a]\u00a0great ride by everybody else, especially Julian, he was super-close all day.”<\/p>\n

Connor Wright (WWV Hagens Berman-Jayco) earlier claimed the junior men’s time trial title while Neve Parslow (ARA Skip Capital) captured the junior women’s title. <\/p>\n

The time trials continue on Thursday with the U23 women’s, elite women’s and elite men’s race against the clock. The elite time trial defending champions of Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla)<\/a> and Brodie Chapman (UAE Team ADQ) are expected to face fierce competition<\/a> in the form of Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden (Lidl-Trek)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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