Connor Swift put in a superb ride to claim third place and a bronze medal at the UCI Gravel World Championships in Australia.<\/p>\n
Riding in the colours of Great Britain, the Yorkshireman rode himself into contention across a punishing 144-kilometre route in Nannup, Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Swift came to the fore as the race split over the main Folly Summit climb, going clear in a four-man group ahead of the final 20km.<\/p>\n
Despite a brief regrouping, Swift would accelerate again and headed to the finish in a quartet. Opening up the sprint from the front, Swift dug deep and held on for third, matching his medal from the 2023 edition.<\/p>\n
In a tight finish, Magnus Bak Klaris (Denmark) edged out defending champion Florian Vermeersch (Belgium), with Swift rounding out the podium places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Swift put in a superb ride to claim third place and a bronze medal at the UCI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799473","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\/799473","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=799473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}