Hans Becking (left) wins Journey Gravel Poland in picture end towards Mauro Verwilt(Picture credit score: Journey Gravel)
Carolin Schiff (proper) on the rostrum as 2024 Gravel Journey winner alongside runner-up Jade Treffeisen(Picture credit score: Gravel Journey)
Hans Becking (Buff Megamo MTB) and Carolin Schiff (Canyon CLLCTV) claimed victories in Gravel Journey, a 111km spherical of the UCI Gravel World Collection in Poland.
Becking, the winner of the Migration and Safari Gravel Race, took the boys’s elite win with in a two-up dash towards Mauro Verwilt (Tarteletto Isorex). Seppe Rombouts (PAS Racing) crossed the road to take third 37 seconds later.
Schiff added one other victory to her spectacular gravel palmares – which features a 2023 Unbound Gravel win – by taking off solo on the ultimate 70km and crossing the road greater than six minutes forward of her nearest rival, Jade Treffeisen (Canyon CLLCTV). This yr’s Unbound Gravel 200 winner Rosa Klöser (Rose-MAAP) was third at over 10 minutes again.
“A phenomenal space and a tough race course with some quick and technical downhills and longer uphills. I made it a tough race from the start and pushed it up, and downhill. Labored out nicely and after 70 km I used to be alone in entrance and was in a position to take the win,” Schiff posted to her Instagram feed.
“So good to share the rostrum with Jade Treffeisen, who had a powerful race and completed second.”
The occasion began and completed in Jakuszyce, a brand new venue within the third version, delivering 74% unpaved roads on the course, with the biggest a part of the paved part on the important thing 7.7km climb with a 5.7% common gradient at round 70km into the day’s journey.
The Gravel World Collection rounds, that are unfold throughout the globe, act as qualifying occasions for the UCI Gravel World Championships which in 2024 might be held in Belgium on October 5-6. The highest 25% from every class qualify.
