Remco Evenepoel and Grace Brown became the first cyclists to win the world road cycling championships time trial and Olympic time trial in the same year.

The elite men’s time trial set out from the Oerlikon velodrome, site of the finish line of the Züri-Metzgete, while the demanding course of the elite men’s road race features terrain that once featured on the route of the demanding but sadly discontinued Classic.

Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel successfully defended his world time trial title in Zurich on Sunday, surviving a lost chain on the starters ramp, as Grace Brown also backed up her Paris gold medal performance in the women's event.

Olympic champions Remco Evenepoel and Grace Brown won the men’s and women’s time trial at the cycling world championships in Switzerland.

These days, Evenepoel rarely gets it wrong when he targets a major goal. His relative travails at June's Critérium du Dauphiné were swiftly forgotten after a sparkling summer that yielded a podium finish in his debut Tour de France and two gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Olympic champions Remco Evenepoel and Grace Brown won the men's and women's time trial at the cycling world championships in Switzerland on Sunday.

Belgium's Remco Evenepoel edged out Italian Filippo Ganna to retain his world road time trial title and conclude a golden summer after Australia's Grace Brown also backed up her Olympic title to win the women's event on Sunday.