Masters rider Silvano Janes dies after suffering a cardiac arrest at UEC Gravel European Championships

The 2024 UEC Gravel European Championships was overshadowed by the loss of life of Italian rider Silvano Janes who suffered a cardiac arrest whereas competing within the Masters 65-69 class held in Asiago, Province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy on Saturday. 

Occasion organisers confirmed Janes’ loss of life in an official assertion following the occasion.

“What was speculated to be a celebratory day on the 2024 UEC Gravel European Championships on the Asiago Plateau become considered one of mourning. Throughout the 65-69 masters race, Italian rider Silvano Janes tragically handed away after struggling a cardiac arrest. Regardless of speedy medical help, nothing could possibly be executed,” organisers wrote in an announcement.

Janes, 69, was a widely known bike owner from Trentino and a former multi-time Masters class world champion in highway gran fondo and mountain biking.

Riders competing on the UEC Gravel European Championships competed on an area lap is 51km with 70% gravel and 30% paved roads and totals 800m of elevation per lap. Every class competed in a unique variety of laps, between 1-3 laps, with the Masters Males’s 65+ discipline finishing one lap. 

Race organisers confirmed that they stopped all classes from competing as soon as they got here by means of after the second lap (102km), apart from the entrance teams from the elite males’s race. 

“In gentle of the incident, the UEC, in settlement with the Flanders Classics and PP Sport Occasions organizers, determined to halt all races after the second lap of the 51km circuit. Solely the primary two teams within the Males’s Elite race had been allowed to finish the third lap to contest the European title,” race organisers stated in an announcement.

The organizers additionally confirmed that podium ceremonies had been cancelled for all classes and that the elite males’s and elite ladies’s classes stood on the rostrum for a top-three podium picture.

“Moreover, after the race, there have been no ordinary celebrations. Solely the Elite Males and Ladies briefly stood on the rostrum for pictures, with out music, jerseys, interviews, or nationwide anthems.”

Flanders Classics launched an announcement following the occasion expressing condolences for Janes’ household, mates and family members.

“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we begin this press launch with the information that Silvano Janes (ITA – Grasp 65 – 69) all of the sudden handed away in the course of the 2024 UEC Gravel European Championships in Asiago, Veneto,” Flanders Classics wrote. 

“We want to lengthen our heartfelt condolences and help to his household and family members throughout this tough time.”