Yorkshire track superstar Ed Clancy savours rare road success
The 32-year-old Yorkshireman defeated a host of WorldTour riders in the time-trial prologue of the Herald Sun Tour.
In his first race of the year, Clancy set a time of one minute 54 seconds on a narrow, and shortened, 1.6km course in the centre of Melbourne.
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Hide AdThe short prologue was the ideal territory for Clancy, who has been part of three successive Great Britain team pursuit Olympic gold-medal winning squads dating back to Beijing in 2008.
It was his first road victory since the Tour of Korea in 2011.
Clancy tweeted: “So happy with the win today.”