Jonathan Milan European champion: the Friulian cyclist wins the gold medal in Switzerland

BUJA. Jonathan Milan European champion in the pursuit of the European Championships on the Grenchen track. The final with the Russian Lev Gonov had no history.

The Russian lasted a few tens of meters in the lead, then in a Rossinian crescendo, Milan, always on the edge of sixty per hour like a hammer, immediately increased the advantage beyond the second and then spread over the course of three kilometers beyond four. Then the race is over because in the pursuit the time stops and the race ends when the opponent to be chased is reached. Milan did it less than a kilometer from the end showing a clear superiority.

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What time would it be? Four minutes and zero 4 ‘, a crazy time. So much so that Filippo Ganna, the undisputed world king of the track, yesterday busy on the road at the Gran Piemonte, immediately sends a message to the Eurosport commentators at the end of the race, writing: “At the age of Jonny 4’04 I didn’t do them, I have to hurry up to go under the 4-minute wall because otherwise that Milan phenomenon will arrive first ”.

What more can we say? “A unique emotion I am speechless”, said Milan excited and intoxicated with joy, who, after the gold in the quartet at the Olympics on August 4, now in two weeks, this time with Ganna, aims to conquer in the world championships of Roubaix world gold.

Then there will be the individual competition. At his international debut in 2020 at the Berlin World Cup, Milan was fourth and Ganna won the fourth title. And to think of an all-blue final between AirGanna and the product of Roberto Bressan’s Team Friuli as seen on Thursday evening in Grenchen is not a utopia.

Obviously a great party in Buja, less than two months ago the “Bar da Ugo” in Ursinins Grande had gathered all the fans together with the parents of the champion, Flavio and Elena. Even the mayor Stefano Bergagna to enjoy another success of his fellow citizen. Tuesday only. We remember, another Buiese, Alessandro De Marchi had won the prestigious Tre valli Varesine.