Héctor Álvarez, bronze, gives Spain the first medal at the Montreal Cycling World Championships

At the gates of glory. Hector Alvarez has signed a notable bronze medal in the cU23 time trial of the Cycling World Championship that is being disputed in Montreal (Canada). The cyclist Benidorm He was the best in the first part of the 31.3 kilometers of the time trial. Álvarez set the fastest records in the first two times. In the first, km 11, he led the Dane Mads Landbo by seven seconds and in the second by five to the Italian Nicolas Milesiwho in the end would end up taking the money from him.

In the run-up to the race, the current runner of the Lidl-Trek Future Racingnext year he will make the jump to the World Tour with the Lidl-TrekHéctor saw himself as a candidate for medals and dreamed of being world champion: “I’m not going to hide, it’s a goal to put on the world champion jersey and take over from Ivan Romeo two years ago”, but in these same statements given to the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) I already warned that the CRI route could become long in the last kilometers, which could take their toll. And that is what has happened to him.

In the third time taking (km 26), Héctor was already third, behind Milesi –member ofl Netcompany INEOS Racing Academy– and a spectacler Ryan Galwhich completed the last few kilometers as if it were mounted on a rocket to end up hitting Netherlands the gold The Dutchman, time trial champion of his country, currently competes in the ranks of the development team of the Team Picnic PostNL and today was his debut in a World Cup.

Alvarez He attached himself as much as he could to the bike and pushed himself as hard as he could in the endless final stretch to stay eleven seconds away from gold and to hang a bronze around his neck that surely tastes like little to him after having had the gold in his hands for so long, but that as the years go by he will value it in its proper measure.

Today is Spain’s third medal in a men’s U23 time trial at a World Cup, after the golds in José Iván Gutiérrez (1999, Treviso, Italy) and Iván Romeo (2024, Zurich, Switzerland).

The man from Alicante will surely not be satisfied with this bronze and on Friday in the road test he will look for another prey. The appointment at 7:30 p.m., in a selection made up of Eñaut Urkaregi, Francisco Jesús Fernández, Daniel Cepa, Manuel Sanroma, Markel Aranaz and Álvarez himself.