Egan Bernal was crowned the Colombian national road race champion for a second year in a row.<\/p>\n
Bernal tackled the punchy 207km course in his home of Zipaquir\u00e1 in style. Bernal and teammate Brandon Rivera – who won the time trial championships earlier in the week – worked well together throughout the race.<\/p>\n
With 35km remaining, Rivera and Bernal were in the chasing group, 1:30 back on a solo leader, before Rivera managed to escape with two others.<\/p>\n
On the short but steep Via de Pacho climb, Bernal was able to claw back time and overtook Rivera who retired from the race due to his efforts.<\/p>\n
Bernal went off the front with Iva Sosa (Kern Pharma), Javier Jamaica (Nu Colombia) and Robinson Lopez (Erce-Sportfitness), before Sosa pushed on alone.<\/p>\n
Soon after, Bernal demonstrated his strength and caught Sosa, with the pair working together.<\/p>\n
Rising to the finish, Bernal kicked and easily outsprinted Sosa, giving him time to raise his arms and claim the title for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal was crowned the Colombian national road race champion for a second year in a row. Bernal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-415581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}