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This year’s World Championship was packed with action and new records. Lots of athletes took advantage of the ideal conditions with mirror flat water and almost no wind on race day. Australian Cameron Wurf put everything on one card early in the race and set a new bike record. Like last year, Patrick Lange brought his strength into play on the concluding marathon and took the title and a course record in winning the World Championship in a thrilling race. The German won in 8:01:40 and broke the previous record of Craig Alexander (8:03:56) from 2011. Enjoy a small selection of images by Ingo Kutsche & David Pintens

On Tuesday morning, I wrote a small post on my personal website about my first UCI race since January 2016. I had wanted to write it on Sunday night or at least Monday morning, but when disappointment hits, writing a post to tell the world about how badly you feel about a race, isn’t the first thing you want to do – or do at all. I spent most of the travel home and Sunday night being annoyed with myself, doubting myself and asking myself if I maybe should have just retired after all. I choose to return to cyclocross because I wanted to show that I have still more to give and mostly proof to myself that I could come back after a series of illnesses and injuries. But one thing that I have battled with more than ever since I made the decision to come back is my own thoughts. I have always said that my head is my Achilles heel and worst enemy when it comes to racing, sometimes I think it is worse dealing with that than the injury I have dealt with over the last 18 months. I am lucky to have a great partner ...

Like every year, the Ironman® World Championships in Kona is the showdown for most pro and amateur triathletes. Over 2,000 athletes will tackle the 226k distance next Saturday. At 6:35am the male pros will start the race, followed by the female pros only five minutes later. The pack of age group athletes will follow at 7:05 (men) and 7:20 (women). Castelli has phenomenal athletes at the start this year. Here’s the pro line-up: Frederik Van Lierde (Belgium) · 2013 Ironman World Champion | 2017 Ironman France winner Timothy O’Donnell (USA) · 2017 Ironman Boulder winner Carrie Lester (Australia) · 2017 Ironman France winner Markus Fachbach (Germany) · 2017: 3rd Ironman Hamburg Corinne Abraham (UK) · 2017: 2nd Ironman Lanzarote, Ironman Austria, Ironman Copenhagen Matt Russell (USA) · 2016: 2nd Ironman Mexico Marc Dülsen (Germany) · 2016 Ironman Wales winner Not pictured: Kirill Kotsegarov (Estonia) — Images: Oliver Dom, Ingo Kutsche, Michael Rauschendorfer

To celebrate that Italy won the most medals at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships in Bergen, we have decided to give away seven Italian National Team jerseys this week. Entering is easy and open to all Castelli Newsletter subscribers. If you know the answers to the below questions, send us your answers and contact details by email to contest@castelli-cycling.com. Don’t forget to include “FORZA AZZURRI” in your email subject line. DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS? 1.    How many gold, silver and bronze medals did Italy win at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships in Bergen? 2.   The Italian road teams raced in the fastest aero suit made for road racing. What’s the name of the speed suit? 3.   What are the names of the two sponsors shown on the front of the Italian national road cycling team jersey?   CONTEST RULES The usual Castelli rules apply (see below). Only one entry is allowed per person. 1.  The contest is open to all Castelli Newsletter subscribers. 2.  This contest begins at 10:00 a.m. Central European Time (CET) on September 25, 2017, and ends at 12:00 p.m. (CET) on October 1, 2017. 3.  The Castelli random-number generator will pick the ...

It was a brilliant week for the Italian national team at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships. Italy won the most medals in Bergen, with seven – all in the junior categories. Elena Pirrone doubled up for the gold medals in the time trial and road race. In the junior men’s road race, Luca Rastelli and Michele Gazzoli won the minor medals, while Alessia Vigilia won silver in the junior women’s time trial and Letizia Paternoster bronze in the road race. In the elite men’s road race, Italy was one of the dominant teams marking all the moves when the morning breakaway came back, with Alessandro De Marchi going in the break with a few laps to go, Gianni Moscon bridging across when Julian Alaphilippe launched a stinging attack on the final climb of Salmon Hill, and Alberto Bettiol leading out Matteo Trentin, who came close to his first world championships podium finish in a head-to-head sprint with some of the world’s fastest sprinters. Trentin showed form in his preparation for the worlds after bagging five wins in the last month (four stages at La Vuelta a España and the Primus Classic). He was less than satisfied with missing out ...