Danish prodigy comes from behind to spoil Dutch star Kirsten Wild’s birthday party
Doha: Denmark’s Amalie Dideriksen shocked pre-event favourites to win the Women’s Elite Road Race at the UCI Road World Championships Doha 2016 yesterday.
The twenty-year-old Danish prodigy came from behind to spoil Kirsten Wild’s birthday party for the world title, timing her sprint to perfection to take the coveted rainbow jersey.
Finland’s Lotta Lepisto took third, with defending champion Lizzie Deignan of Britain finishing fourth.
“I think it is a surprise for everybody,” said Dideriksen immediately afterwards.
“I know I am OK in the sprint, but taking the world championship is unbelievable.”
Dideriksen already won the juniors world title twice and she is only the sixth woman to win the senior world Road Race title after also having won junior gold (France’s CatherienMarsal and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Lithuania’s Diana
