A perfect display of pacing helped lead Team Sunweb to a gold medal in the Women's Team Time Trial World Championships today in Bergen, Norway. The team held on having set the fastest early benchmark as the sixth team to start as all others failed to better their time of 55'41" over the 42.5km course. The win confirms the hard work and development for the team in the discipline.

The six rider team was formed of Lucinda Brand, Leah Kirchmann, Floortje Mackaij, Coryn Rivera, Sabrina Stultiens and Ellen van Dijk, who pulled together and stuck to a race plan to pull off a spectacular win.

Ellen van Dijk told us after the podium celebrations: "It was a really tough course and it was so important not to over pace on the climbs as you blow up the whole team so we really focused on that. That was our strength, we kept it really smooth and it was feeling good all the way. We used each others strengths all the way and we took the win which is incredible.

"This year we really didn't expect to go for the win but when you do it really as a team like this and use each others strengths in such a good way it's such a satisfying feeling. We were the underdog and now we're world champions."