Maiden eSports world champions crowned

Pro rower wins the men’s title as pro rider wins women’s race

Professional rower Jason Osborne and CCC-Liv rider Ashleigh Moolman Pasio captured the virtual rainbow bands at the first ever eSports World Championships last week.

The 26-year-old, who is a former rowing world champion and competed at the 2016 Olympics, was racing from the German rowers’ training camp in Portugal.

Despite his commitment to a different sport, Osborne had previously won the Alpe du Zwift race, the virtual equivalent of Alpe d’Huez. Last Wednesday he finished almost two seconds ahead of Anders Foldager, whose Danish team-mate Nicklas Pedersen rounded out the podium.