The United States won the most world titles and topped the medal standings at the UCI Road World Championships. The country won three gold, one silver, and one bronze medal, its best finish since the race was held in 2015.
Megan Jastrab won the junior women's road race to claim the country's third gold medal in Yorkshire. On Thursday, Quinn Simmons won the junior men's road race after soloing 33 km.
Earlier in the week, Chloe Dygert-Owen repeated her performance from the 2015 World Championships in Richmond, where she won both junior titles, dominating the elite women's time trial by over a minute and a half.
This was the best result for the U.S. since the event was held in Richmond, and the host nation won two individual world titles and a trade team TTT with BMC for a total of eight medals.
"The success of our athletes in Yorkshire is proof that our development program is working.
"It is no coincidence that this weekend's U23 and Elite medalists also stood on the podium as juniors in Richmond and Doha. We have worked hard this year to ensure that our most promising juniors experience racing against other Nations Cup countries in Europe, and not only did they win three medals, they finished the season in second and third place overall in the Nations Cup, despite not being able to participate in every race! "
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The Netherlands, with Annemiek van Fruten winning gold in the team time trial mixed relay and the elite women's race, finished second with the most medals with two gold, four silver, and two bronze medals.
Italy finished third with two gold medals, including the U23 men's road race, where Nils Ikhoff (Netherlands) was disqualified and handed the win to Samuele Battistella. As a result, Antonio Tiberi won the junior men's time trial.
Mads Pedersen of Denmark won the elite men's road race ahead of Matteo Trentin (Italy) and Stefan Küng (Switzerland).
Spain, France, and Colombia all returned home empty-handed.
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