World Road Championships
Venue: Melbourne Dates: 29 Sept - 3 Oct Coverage: Live on BBC Red Button & online on 29 Sep (0600-0750), 30 Sep (0400-0835), 2 Oct (0400-0735, 2240-0610 - 3 Oct), 3 Oct (Highlights 1300-1400)
 Cancellara won a gold medal in the time trial at the 2008 Olympics
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Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara beat Briton's David Millar to clinch a record fourth time trial title at the Road World Championships.
Cancellara charged through the 45.8km circuit in 58 minutes, 9.19 seconds to beat Millar by one minute, 2.75secs.
Germany's Tony Martin was third in Australia in a time of 59mins 21secs.
Cancellara, 29, previously won the time trial at the championships in 2006 and 2007 before also triumphing in 2009 in his native Switzerland.
Prior to Thursday's race, he had shared the record for world championships time trial victories with Australian Michael Rogers on three wins.
Rogers was one of the early pacesetters and led briefly, but he was eventually pushed down into fifth, behind fourth-placed fellow countryman Richie Porte.
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Cancellara, who won gold and bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in the time trial and road race, was initially a doubt to compete in Melbourne after he pulled out of September's Tour of Spain, citing fatigue.
He said he would only compete at the worlds if he was "at 100%" of his ability and his victory in overcast, occasionally gusty conditions in the city port of Geelong is vindication of this stance.
He had one nervous moment when he appeared to scrape a barrier midway through his run but was otherwise a model of control.
"I'm really happy," said Cancellara. "It feels amazing and it was maybe the hardest one because before I didn't know about my condition.
"At the end I focused on my own race and tried to do what I can.
"I want a bit more to enjoy this (today). Tomorrow morning when I wake up, then it's another day."
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