Forster finishes first in fierce fight
Having won the Cross-Country title at the European Championships 2018 in Glasgow, Forster is back on the throne after edging the competition in a tightly contested race. The 28-year-old launched a decisive attack close to the finish to celebrate 3’’ ahead of Dane Sebastian Fini Carstensen, with Swiss Filippo Colombo finishing third.
“It was an amazing race. I felt very good already two weeks ago; I had the European Championships as a goal in my mind because I couldn’t go to the Olympics, so I took the next chance and I’m very happy I made it to the top,” Forster said after the race.
“The course was a little bit of a cyclo-cross race with the downhill on the stairs. I’m a cyclo-cross racer as well so I liked the course. I knew I could ride fast on this track. We saw at the Under 23 race that a big group was coming together, so I was focusing on staying in the front, saving energy and then at the end, finishing with a bang.”