Road World Championships 2021: Norway’s Per Strand Hagenes crushes the field in junior road race

An attritional race around Leuven came down to a blistering solo attack inside the final 10km

Hagenes wins the junior men's road race
Hagenes wins the junior men's road race
(Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)

Norway claimed their first medal of the Flanders 2021 World Championships, as Per Strand Hagenes smashed the final 10km to win the junior road race rainbow jersey. 

The 18-year-old is the first Norwegian to ever win the junior world title, after he attacked solo on a steep ramp 6km from the finish.

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