Campenaerts headlines 2023 Esports World Championships start list
Saturday's racing has new knock-out three-race format on Zwift's ꦓScotland map
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Victor Campenaerts of Lotto Dstny is on the start list for the third 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Esports World Championships that will be held this Saturday, February 18.
The former World Hour Record holder will take to Zwift's new Scotland course among a field of 85 men's riders, while the women's race will play host to 87 competit💧ors, including reigning champion Loes Adegeest.
Launched in 2020, the Esports Worlds has been won by Adegeest, Jason Osbourne, Jay Vine, and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, while major road racing names such as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock, Lauren Stephens, Edvald Boasson Hagen, and Sarah Gigant🍎e have also taken part over the first two editions.
Campenaerts regularly uses Zwift for🐼 training and has raced on Zwift during the winter.
Vine will not defend his title after moving to UAE Team Emirates and winning the Tour Do꧙wn Under. He is riding the Volta ao Algarve instead, with Freddy Ovett part of a strong Australian team.
Both men and women will race on the same courses on Satur🐽day, and aꦇ new format has been introduced for 2023, with three races on the menu and riders eliminated after each race.
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T⭕he 14km 'The Punch', taking in two steep wall-like climbs on Zwift's Rolling Highlands course, will be the setti💃ng for the opening race of three.
30 riders progress from there to the second race – 'The Climb'ꦰ on the City and Sgurr course – an 8.6km test with 161 metres of climbing across three major climbs on the route.
Finally, 10 riders from each of the men's and women's peloton will progress to the final race, 'The Podium', held on the Glasgow Crit Circuit. R𒈔iders will take on four laps of a 3km loop including one major climb midway through.
The finale is an elimination race, ending with the final three rid🤪ers battlingജ for the win on the last lap.
The shaken-up format should refresh the Esports Worlds, which had previously been run in a similar way to regular road racing as a peloton 🅠battled it out over one course to find the world𓆏 champion. , a series of artificial bonuses which give riders temporary speed and weight boosts, will still be available.
Several familiar faces will be on the start list on Sunday, with Campenaerts and Adegeest joined by Osbourne, Belgian Lioꦑnel Vujasin, Ovett, Mary Wilkinson, and Jaqui Godbe.
Vine built his road racing ღcar꧒eer via the Zwift Academy platform and so it was tough for him to miss this year's world championships.
"Combining road racing with eSports has been important to me, to honour my development pathway through cycling, as well as the privilege of representing Australia alongside my wife ꦛBrie," Vine said.
"For now, this b💮alance will have to shift tow❀ards my professional road racing career, and as such, I won't be able to defend my rainbow stripes at the 2023 UCI Cycling Esports World Championships."
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