Harry Hudson had never been to Africa before this UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, but the 18-year-old made himself at home in the continent on Friday, making history for Great Britain.
There have been many great British male juniors in the 21st century, from Geraint Thomas to Sebastian Grindley, via Tom Pidcock, but none had ever stood on the top step of the podium after the junior road race at the World Championships until Friday.
Hudson, the junior national hill-climb champion, was the man to change that story, a step up from Grindley’s silver in Zürich last year, and did so in dramatic fashion, attacking from 36km to go, and soloing to victory.
There was no plan for Hudson, a winner of junior Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the junior CiCLE Classic this year, to attack from that far out, it just happened that way, he explained.
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