The 27-year-old Dygert won two medals at the Paris Olympics, gold in the team pursuit and bronze in the time trial despite a fall on the course.
ZURICH, Switzerland — Chloe Dygert of Brownsburg won the bronze medal in the individual time trial at the Road Cycling World Championships in Switzerland on Sunday.
Grace Brown of Australia came in first, becoming the first athlete to win the same event at a World Championships and an Olympic Games in the same year.
Braun, 32, covered the 29.9 kilometre (18.5 mile) course from Gossau to Zurich in 39 minutes and 16 seconds.
She finished 17 seconds ahead of Demi Forering of the Netherlands and 56 seconds ahead of Dygert, who had just finished second in the women's Tour de France.
Brown subsequently said he intended to retire at the end of the season.
Dygert, 27, won two medals at the Paris Olympics — gold in the team pursuit and bronze in the time trial despite a fall on the course. She became the time trial world champion in 2019, winning by a record 92 seconds in Yorkshire, England, and is on track to win again in 2023.
70 riders started the race over a hilly nine kilometre course.
Dygert has undergone a series of surgeries since a potentially career-ending accident at the 2020 World Championships in Imola, Italy, when a metal barrier severed her thigh, including surgery last fall on her left quadriceps to remove scar tissue. Her Olympic preparations have been hampered by an Achilles injury, an accident at the Spring Classics in Belgium and now COVID-19.
Dygert has signed a new contract with Canyon/SRAM that runs through 2026.
“I can be the strongest person in the world with my mental strength, but with the way the pack is right now and the women are at it, if someone is continually regressing every year, it's starting from zero,” she told Cycling News. “I'm still waiting, hoping for another year or two to get consistent and healthy and strong and feel like myself again.”
“I don't think I've gone more than six or seven months since the accident where nothing has happened. This year has probably been the hardest year since the accident.”
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