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Australia’s Orica-Greenedge were edged out by just 0.81 seconds for the team trial title at the road cycling world championships in Italy on Sunday, while Orica-AIS finished third in the women’s event.
Tony Martin powered Omega Pharma-Quick Step to its second consecutive title in the team time trial, just shading Orica-Greenedge over the 57-kilometre route from Montecatini Terme to Florence, clocking 1 hour, 4 minutes, 16.81 seconds.
Sky, featuring Tour de France winner Chris Froome, finished third, 22.55 seconds behind.
Martin, the German who has also won the individual time trial at worlds the past two years, led a team that also included Sylvain Chavanel of France, Michal Kwiatkowski of Poland, Niki Terpstra of the Netherlands, Kristof Vandewalle of Belgium and Peter Velits of Slovakia.
BMC, with American standouts Taylor Phinney and Tejay van Garderen, finished fourth, and RadioShack with Swiss star Fabian Cancellara was fifth.
There was also a successful title defence in the women’s event, with the American squad Specialized-Lululemon winning again.
Lisa Brennauer and Trixi Worack of Germany, Katie Colclough of Britain, Carmen Small and Evelyn Stevens of the United States and Eleonora van Dijk of the Netherlands clocked 51 minutes, 10.69 seconds along the 43-kilometre route from Pistoia to Florence.
Dutch team Rabo, featuring Olympic and two-time road world champion Marianne Vos, finished a distant second, 1:11.09 seconds behind, and Orica-AIS of Australia was third, 1:33.83 back.
Monday’s events are the individual time trials for junior women and under-23 men.
The championships conclude next Sunday with the featured elite men’s road race.
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