Women's cycling
As a woman Radrennsport participation is understood by women in cycling races, so in competitions in road cycling , track cycling , mountain biking , cyclocross and BMX .
Cycling race
Road cycling
Both the UCI Road World Championships (since 1958) and the Olympic Games (since 1984) take place on the road for women.
Other important one-day races were compiled by the UCI World Cycling Association in the UCI Women Road World Cup with a separate ranking until 2015 and since 2016 together with important stage races in the calendar of the newly founded UCI Women's WorldTour . summarized as a series in which not only national teams but also UCI women's teams take part.
While women's road races were often rather short in the past, the development of women's cycling can also be seen in the distances. The maximum distance for a one-day race or a stage is 140 km for the women's elite category , 40 km for individual time trials and 50 km for team time trials . In stage races, the maximum stage average is 100 km.
Other cycling disciplines
Women's competitions are also held at the annual UCI World Championships in track cycling (since 1958), mountain biking (since 1990), cyclocross (since 2000) and BMX . Women's competitions on the track , mountain biking and cyclocross are also part of the respective UCI World Cups .
At the Olympic Games , women's competitions also take place on the track (since 1988), mountain biking (since 1996) and BMX (since 2008). At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , track cycling was the first to have the same number of competitions for women and men.
Teams
In the field of road cycling, the World Cycling Association UCI women's teams with up to 20 riders are registered. A world ranking list was also kept for these teams.
There are no separate women's teams in track cycling and mountain biking. However, there are mixed UCI Track Teams and UCI MTB Teams in which the riders of these teams and their male colleagues take part in the respective World Cup series.
World rankings
The UCI world cycling association maintains its own world rankings for women in road cycling , cyclocross, BMX and the individual disciplines of track cycling and mountain biking.
Organizations
In 2016, the Association of Professional Cyclists, Cyclistes Professionnels Associés, received its own section for women's cycling. The 1997 road world champion, Alessandra Cappellotto , became the first chairwoman .
See also
References and comments
- ^ UCI Women Road World Cup . Uci.ch. August 23, 2010. Accessed on February 19, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Women's World Tour will replace the World Cup from 2016. radsport-news.com, September 25, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015 .
- ↑ UCI regulations for road cycling, there: 2.3.002, 2.4.001, 2.5.002 and 2.6.008 . Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
- ↑ UCI Events (links to World Championships and World Cups) . Uci.ch. Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ↑ bahnradsport.com ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2011
- ↑ UCI regulations for road cycling, there 2.17. Womens's and Continental Teams . Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ CPA adds women's section. cyclingnews.com, July 27, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .
