World champions Evenepoel and Reusser clinch European titles

World time-trial champions Remco Evenepoel and Marlen Reusser both doubled up, winning the European titles in France on Wednesday, little more than 48 hours after arriving back from Rwanda.

First outing in the rainbow jersey and delivering in style 😮‍💨

Just 10 days after winning #Kigali2025, Remco Evenepoel 🇧🇪 and Marlen Reusser 🇨🇭 claim the 2025 European ITT titles! 👏

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Reusser thanked her Swiss team for organising a smooth trip from Kigali via Ethiopia, some 6500km (4 038 miles) away, and for finding a hotel with a "good bed".

"I was favourite but after a big trip you can't be too confident and I'm never that confident anyway. But I can't complain though because poor Remco actually raced on Sunday," she said.

Decked out in his Olympic champion gold helmet and the rainbow jersey worn by world champions, Belgian Evenepoel dominated in the wind-blown event in the Drome-Ardeche region.

Italy's Filippo Ganna barely had the time to celebrate his lead position before Evenepoel sped over the line, relegating him down to second, by 43sec, while Niklas Larsen of Denmark was third another 25sec back.

Evenepoel's exploit is doubly impressive considering he took the silver medal in the road race in Kigali on Sunday and then jumped on an overnight flight to Marseille, completing the trip by car.

'FULL GAS'

The champion said the long trip hadn't been that bad, but revealed he'd been stressed by a faulty earpiece.

"Actually I felt quite fresh today, I went to bed early, was careful with what I ate and just hung out relaxing at the hotel," he said.

"Once down the ramp I felt good, but the radio wasn't working and I heard nothing from the coach until 1.5km from the end when he told me I was 30 seconds ahead. I sort of felt safe but went full gas from there," he said.

🇧🇪 Remco Evenepoel delighted after 🇪🇺 European time trial masterclass

"It means a lot. This year, when I restarted after my injuries, one of my main goals was to try and win all the time trial championships.”

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For Reusser this was a fourth European title as she finished 49sec ahead of Norway's Mie Ottestad and 51sec ahead of another Norwegian Katrine Aalerud.

The 34-year-old qualified doctor, who stands at 1.80m tall, won the women's world time-trial, took a bronze in the mixed relay, and raced in Saturday's road race in Kigali.

"I'm going to ask my team to create a jersey that mixes the world and European one, maybe the Swiss one too, I'm Swiss champion, so that would be cool," she said.