Profile European Championships men's Elite Time-trial

The route though is surprisingly short, a medium-sized time-trial. West of Munich the riders will be racing on a loop around Fürstenfeldbruck which totals just just little under 24 kilometers. It will be a very fast route, without technical sections and descents, with roads where the purists can lay down their power.

The 24-kilometer route starts with a small hilltop with the riders leaving town, 400 meters at 7.4%. This will not be a crucial point of the course, however it will be crucial to manage this spike well as the riders may go into the red and fail to recover – or in another scenario, they may start off too slow and then have too much time to take back in the rest of the effort.

The remaining 23 kilometers of the route though are fairly simple, with the riders crossing two small towns, but mostly riding through open country roads with no sections that will completely break the rhythm.