On Thursday, Bob Jungels (Deceuninck-Quickstep) won his sixth title in the Luxembourg National Time Trial. The test was one of the few national championship events remaining on the calendar, as many countries chose to cancel due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Jungels, champion in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019, finished 45 seconds ahead of Trek-Segafredo's Alex Kirsch, while Kevin Jenietz (Groupama-FDJ) finished a close third on the undulating 21km circuit in third place.

"Every title at Nationals is special, but this one feels even more special," said Jenietz. I'm happy to win another ITT title and proud to have won this one for the team. The time trial went very well and I am happy with my condition.

Christine Majerus (Boels-Dolmans) won the women's title for the 14th year in a row, continuing her unbeaten record at the Luxembourg Championships, which includes road race and cyclo-cross titles. With only 10.5 km to race, Majerus was 49 seconds ahead of under-23 Claire Faber, with junior rider Marie Schreiber in third place.

The CCC team took the Polish Elite Men's Individual Time Trial title from Kamil Gradec and the Czech Time Trial title from Jozef Cerny.

Gladek put in a strong performance in the 44km event, pushing defending champion Maciej Bodnar (Bora-Hansgrohe) into second place. Lukasz Visniewski, also of the CCC team, rounded out the podium.

"Winning this race and taking the jersey has been a big personal goal of mine this year. I knew I had a good chance to fight for the title and I felt good. It was a new course and definitely a fast one, so I was able to show what I could do and my average speed was 52 km/h.

"I felt good going into the race and I felt like I could win today. It's always easy to say that, but I've really prepared for this race over the past month. I've trained well and raced well in Burgos and the Tour de Pollogne. I want to thank the team for helping me prepare for this race and it feels good to win for them."

Cerny also ousted the defending Czech champion in the Czech championship, finishing 10 seconds ahead of Jan Barta (Elkov-Kaspar).

"I am really happy to be Czech time trial champion again. After the Tour de Wallonie I had a long journey to get here. The course is different, so we'll do some light scouting, warm up on the rollers, and then it's time to race." I felt stiff at first because I had raced hard in Wallonie. I felt pretty stiff at first because it was after a hard race at Wallonie.

"There was no time check, so the difference between first and second place was only 10 seconds, but it was a really fast race, with an average speed of 51 km/h.

"The next time trial will be in Czech colors. I'm looking forward to the next time trial, which will be run in Czech colors. Now, Saturday is the road race. It's going to be a tough race, so let's see what we can do there."

Estonia hosted the elite men's road race championships on Thursday, with Israel Startup Nation's Norman Vahtra stealing victory from a five-man breakaway in the first kilometer. He was ahead of Karl-Patrick Lauck and Gert Kivstick.

On Friday, elite men's and women's individual time trials will take place in France, Italy, and Spain.