23 May

Gravel world champion Matej Mohorič and Bahrain group to race Unbound 200

The 2024 model of the Unbound Gravel race, the world’s marquee gravel event, is growing on June 1. Every the race course and the opponents are slated to be extra sturdy than ever sooner than.

A final-minute addition to the boys’s peloton, launched as we communicate, is none other than UCI Gravel World Champion Matej Mohorič (Workforce Bahrain Victorious). The Slovenian will be joined by two of his WorldTour teammates, Matevž Govekar and Łukasz Wiśniowski.

A rider acknowledged for his daring wins, Mohorič has confirmed to be versatile. He can win after extremely efficient solo efforts from a breakaway, in a high-octane sprint finish, or after a protracted descent at breakneck velocity. He’ll now put his abilities to the check out throughout the Flint Hills of Kansas, the place he’ll be duking it out in direction of North America’s best gravel professionals and an rising amount of worldwide experience, along with former Roubaix and Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet.

The (in)well-known 200-mile course is an actual check out of endurance, self-sufficiency and gear. Together with needing to gasoline oneself for 11+ hours of utilizing, the sharp flint rocks are notorious for slicing tires and dashing podium aspirations. Alongside the best way by which, riders moreover should address the undulating terrain, headwinds, infinite miles of sunbaked roads, and, if the least bit moist, carnage-inducing mud.

As a result of the legend of Unbound grows, an rising amount of worldwide professionals are making the prolonged trek to middle-of-nowhere America to see what the hype is all about. The Dutch mafia, led by ex-WorldTour skilled Laurens ten Dam, delivered Unbound’s first non-American champion in 2022 when Ivar Slik outsprinted the favorites. A yr later, Carolin Schiff from Germany grew to change into the first non-American winner of the women’s 200-mile race.

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