Julien Jurdie, son directeur sportif à AG2R La Mondiale en était conscient : « Il est capable d’aller chercher le titre de champion du monde ». Huit ans après Romain Sicard, six ans après Arnaud Démare, deux ans après Kévin Ledanois. Dans la lignée d’une forme qui le suit depuis le GP d’Isbergues qu’il a remporté le week-end dernier, Benoit Cosnefroy s’adjuge le titre de champion du monde U23 à Bergen en Norvège ! Lucide, il a su saisir l’opportunité et revenir sur l’Allemand Lennard Kamna. Dans un sprint à deux et après un final parfaitement maîtrisé par le clan français, le jeune coureur de 21 ans a littéralement surclassé son adversaire. Il devient à Bergen le 4ème Français champion du Monde Espoirs.
Photo© Wieler Revue
Classement de l’épreuve :
| 1 | Benoit Cosnefroy (France) | 4:48:23 | |
| 2 | Lennard Kamna (Germany) | ||
| 3 | Michael Carbel Svendgaard (Denmark) | 0:00:03 | |
| 4 | Oliver Wood (Great Britain) | ||
| 5 | Vincenzo Albanese (Italy) | ||
| 6 | Damien Touze (France) | ||
| 7 | Max Kanter (Germany) | ||
| 8 | Michal Paluta (Poland) | ||
| 9 | Mark Downey (Ireland) | ||
| 10 | Anders Skaarseth (Norway) | ||
| 11 | German Nicolas Tivani Perez (Argentina) | ||
| 12 | Patrick Muller (Switzerland) | ||
| 13 | Stylianos Farantakis (Greece) | ||
| 14 | Marc Hirschi (Switzerland) | ||
| 15 | Bjorg Lambrecht (Belgium) | ||
| 16 | Aleksandr Riabushenko (Belarus) | ||
| 17 | Wilmar Andres Paredes Zapata (Colombia) | ||
| 18 | Giovanni Carboni (Italy) | ||
| 19 | Emiel Planckaert (Belgium) | ||
| 20 | Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia) | ||
| 21 | Ivan Garcia Cortina (Spain) | ||
| 22 | Callum Scotson (Australia) | ||
| 23 | Pavel Sivakov (Russian Federation) | ||
| 24 | Lucas Eriksson (Sweden) | ||
| 25 | Jon Irisarri Rincon (Spain) | ||
| 26 | Jaakko Hanninen (Finland) | ||
| 27 | Rasmus Fossum Tiller (Norway) | ||
| 28 | Pascal Eenkhoorn (Netherlands) | ||
| 29 | Valentin Madouas (France) | ||
| 30 | Michael Storer (Australia) | ||
| 31 | Kevin Geniets (Luxembourg) | ||
| 32 | Stan Dewulf (Belgium) | ||
| 33 | Mauricio Moreira (Uruguay) | ||
| 34 | Michal Schlegel (Czech Republic) | ||
| 35 | Casper Pedersen (Denmark) | ||
| 36 | Daniel Felipe Martinez Poveda (Colombia) | ||
| 37 | Artem Nych (Russian Federation) | ||
| 38 | James Shaw (Great Britain) | ||
| 39 | Jonas Gregaard Wilsly (Denmark) | ||
| 40 | Mark Stewart (Great Britain) | 0:00:20 | |
| 41 | Alvaro Jose Hodeg Chagui (Colombia) | 0:01:01 | |
| 42 | Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark) | ||
| 43 | Ziga Jerman (Slovenia) | 0:01:04 | |
| 44 | Robert Stannard (Australia) | ||
| 45 | Piotr Brozyna (Poland) | ||
| 46 | Hayato Okamoto (Japan) | 0:01:50 | |
| 46 | Dusan Rajovic (Serbia) | ||
| 48 | Gasper Katrasnik (Slovenia) | ||
| 49 | Izidor Penko (Slovenia) | ||
| 50 | Kamil Malecki (Poland) | ||
| 51 | Yuriy Natarov (Kazakhstan) | ||
| 52 | Lukas Ruegg (Switzerland) | ||
| 53 | Joris Nieuwenhuis (Netherlands) | ||
| 54 | William Barta (United States Of America) | ||
| 55 | Anatolii Budiak (Ukraine) | ||
| 56 | Kasper Asgreen (Denmark) | ||
| 57 | Johannes Schinnagel (Germany) | ||
| 58 | Edoardo Affini (Italy) | ||
| 59 | Takeaki Amezawa (Japan) | ||
| 60 | Nicola Conci (Italy) | 0:01:55 | |
| 61 | Tom Wirtgen (Luxembourg) | 0:02:16 | |
| 62 | Gino Mader (Switzerland) | 0:02:50 | |
| 63 | Nikolai Cherkasov (Russian Federation) | 0:03:00 | |
| 64 | Jai Hindley (Australia) | ||
| 65 | Petr Rikunov (Russian Federation) | 0:04:44 | |
| 66 | Yevgeniy Gidich (Kazakhstan) | ||
| 67 | Francisco Campos (Portugal) | ||
| 68 | Benjamin Thomas (France) | 0:06:11 | |
| 69 | Daire Feeley (Ireland) | 0:06:23 | |
| 70 | Franck Bonnamour (France) | ||
| 71 | Jeremy Lecroq (France) | ||
| 72 | Mikkel Froelich Honore (Denmark) | ||
| 73 | Grigoriy Shtein (Kazakhstan) | ||
| 74 | Roman Lehky (Czech Republic) | ||
| 75 | Patrick Gamper (Austria) | ||
| 76 | Vadim Pronskiy (Kazakhstan) | ||
| 77 | Karl Patrick Lauk (Estonia) | ||
| 78 | Luke Mudgway (New Zealand) | ||
| 79 | Matic Groselj (Slovenia) | ||
| 80 | Hector Carretero (Spain) | ||
| 81 | Ole Forfang (Norway) | ||
| 82 | Dmitrii Strakhov (Russian Federation) | ||
| 83 | Erik Sandersson (Sweden) | ||
| 84 | Sam Dobbs (New Zealand) | ||
| 85 | Kristoffer Halvorsen (Norway) | ||
| 86 | Piet Allegaert (Belgium) | ||
| 87 | Florian Nowak (Germany) | ||
| 88 | Tobias S. Foss (Norway) | ||
| 89 | James Knox (Great Britain) | 0:06:28 | |
| 90 | Alan Banaszek (Poland) | 0:07:34 | |
| 91 | Soufiane Sahbaoui (Morocco) | ||
| 92 | Neilson Powless (United States Of America) | ||
| 93 | Nickolas Zukowsky (Canada) | ||
| 94 | Sergio Samitier Samitier (Spain) | ||
| 95 | Scott Davies (Great Britain) | 0:09:16 | |
| 96 | André Carvalho (Portugal) | ||
| 97 | Ethan Hayter (Great Britain) | ||
| 98 | Jakub Otruba (Czech Republic) | ||
| 99 | Jasper Philipsen (Belgium) | ||
| 100 | Barnabas Peak (Hungary) | ||
| 101 | Ivo Oliveira (Portugal) | ||
| 102 | Justin Oien (United States Of America) | ||
| 103 | Zahiri Abderrahim (Morocco) | ||
| 104 | Mohcine El Kouraji (Morocco) | 0:11:07 | |
| 105 | Andrej Petrovski (Macedonia) | ||
| 106 | Pit Leyder (Luxembourg) | ||
| 107 | Szymon Sajnok (Poland) | ||
| 108 | Julius Van Den Berg (Netherlands) | ||
| 109 | Bram Welten (Netherlands) | ||
| 110 | Senne Leysen (Belgium) | ||
| 111 | Atsushi Oka (Japan) | 0:13:24 | |
| 112 | Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev (Kazakhstan) | 0:16:13 | |
| 113 | Gustav Hoog (Sweden) | ||
| 114 | Matteo Moschetti (Italy) | ||
| 115 | Jan Andrej Cully (Slovakia) | 0:17:04 | |
| 116 | Awet Habtom Tekle (Eritrea) | ||
| 117 | Darragh O’mahony (Ireland) | ||
| 118 | Abderrahmane Mansouri (Algeria) | ||
| 119 | Orluis Aular (Venezuela) | ||
| 120 | Syver Westgaard Waersted (Norway) | ||
| 121 | Regan Gough (New Zealand) |