Belgium`s Remco Evenepoel won the junior edition of the Chrono des Nations time trial on Sunday, and will next race as a member of the WorldTour-level Deceuninck-Quick Step team in 2019. While most eyes were on the elite men`s Chrono des Nations - in which Danish youngsters Martin Toft Madsen (BHS-Almeborg Bornholm) and under-23 time trial world champion Mikkel Berg (Hagens Berman Axeon) took the top two places, and Direct Energie`s Sylvain Chavanel`s fifth place was his last as a professional rider - Evenepoel was busy cleaning up in the junior edition, covering the 26.5km TT in 32:48, 1:10 ahead of Frenchman Donavan Grondin and 1:39 in front of Great Britain`s Joshua Sandman in third place. The 18-year-old Evenepoel won both the junior men`s road race and time trial at the recent UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria, in a similarly dominant fashion, but had already signed to ride for Patrick Lefevere`s Quick-Step Floors team for 2019.ADVERTISEMENT `Always nice to finish off the season with a win,` he tweeted on Sunday. `This was my last race as a junior and I am beyond excited for next season with Quick-Step.` Evenepoel may not want to be known as `the next Eddy Merckx` - even though Merckx has called him `something special` - but he`s dominated in a very similar fashion by winning almost every event he`s entered this season, including the junior Belgian Championship road race, the junior Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne one-day race, and both the time trial and the road race at the junior and under-23 European Championships. Quick-Step Floors boss Lefevere had been searching for a new title sponsor for his team, and was able to reveal it as window manufacturer Deceuninck earlier this month. - Remco Evenepoel (@EvenepoelRemco) October 14, 2018
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