UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships ( English UCI Road World Championships ) are the world championships in road cycling and have been held annually at different locations by the World Cycling Association UCI since 1921.
General
history
The Grand Prix Wolber in France was the forerunner of the professional road world championships from 1922 . The best drivers from Italy , France , Belgium and Switzerland met there .
First held at the Nürburgring in 1927 , the race developed slowly:
| 1927 | - 22 drivers |
| 1928 | - 16 drivers |
| 1929 | - 17 drivers |
| 1930 | - 23 drivers |
| ... | |
| 2006 | - 198 drivers |
Categories
From 1921 to 1926, the men's road world championships were held exclusively for amateurs , from 1927 until the introduction of the standard license after the 1995 season, then in parallel for professionals and amateurs, and since 1996 in parallel for elite men and U23 men . The women's world championships were held for the first time in 1958, those of the juniors in 1975 and those of the women juniors in 1989, the latter two, however, with the exception of the period from 1997 to 2004 at different locations than the men's events.
shirt
The current world champion in road driving has the right and the duty to wear the world champion's jersey ( rainbow jersey) during all road races (except time trials) until the next world championships in the following year . The same applies to the rainbow jersey awarded in the individual time trial, which must be worn in all time trials in the following year.
The rainbow jersey is white and has a wide horizontal stripe in the colors blue, red, black, yellow and green (from top to bottom) around the chest. In earlier years the rainbow stripes in the time trial version were interrupted by a stylized clock. After this year, former world champions may wear these colors as thin stripes on the sleeve edge and on the collar.
time
Up to and including 1994, the road world championships (excluding the events for juniors) were held at the end of August, a few weeks after the Tour de France . Since then, the races have taken place shortly before the end of the season in late September or early October. The current date is not without controversy, as many racing cyclists have already ended their season at this late point in time.
Until 1995, the road and track world championships in the same country were held consecutively, sometimes in connection with the world championships in indoor cycling. The world championships have been awarded to various national associations since 1996. In addition, so-called B World Championships were held between 1997 and 2003, in which athletes from countries where the level of performance in cycling was still developing.
Disciplines
Road racing
The road races were and will be held at the Road World Championships in all of the above categories. The course consists of a mostly demanding loop, which is driven several times depending on the category and length. Besides the big stage race Tour de France , Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España and the classic road race of men considered by the Road World Championships as the most prestigious race of cycling .
Individual time trial
In 1994, the individual time trial was introduced as a second discipline for men, women and juniors , which was also established for the U23 men from 1996 and for the women from 1998.
Team time trial
In the years 1962 to 1994 a world championship for four national teams in team time trial over 100 km was held. This tradition was revived in a modified form in 2012, when a world championship title in the team time trial was awarded for 6-person cycling teams for men (approx. 50 km) and women (approx. 35 km). These competitions were discontinued from the UCI Road World Championships 2019 in favor of a time trial in the form of the mixed relay (2 × 25 km).
participation
National teams compete in the road world championships , which is in contrast to most other UCI events for men and women, where commercial cycling teams usually start. The number of starting places for each national team is determined by the national rankings of the respective UCI racing series in the individual categories (with the exception of the juniors and the time trial): the UCI WorldTour and the UCI Continental Circuits for the men's elite, the UCI world rankings for the women's elite, the UCI Continental Circuits and the U23 men's cycling nations cup for the U23 men and the junior cycling nations cup of the juniors. The most successful nations are allowed to offer the most drivers, which means a team of nine drivers in the men's road race.
Palmarès
Men
All winners of the men's road world championships in road races (amateurs and professionals, from 1996: elite) and individual time trials are listed below:
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↑ 1968 the world championships for amateurs took place in Montevideo
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↑ In 1969 the world championships for amateurs took place in Brno
- ↑ a b c d e f 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 the Olympic road race was considered the world championship for amateurs
team
All of the winning nations of the men's four-person team time trial road world championships are listed below. From 2012 to 2018 , the team time trial was again included in the program of the road world championships. Not national teams but commercial cycling teams fought for the title . This competition was replaced by the mixed relay in 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 the Olympic four-man team time trial was considered a world championship
Men U23
All winners of the U23 men's road world championships in road races and individual time trials are listed below:
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Women
All winners of the women's road world championships in road races and individual time trials are listed below:
- ↑ a b c 1984, 1988 and 1992 the Olympic road race was considered the women's world championship
team
All winning teams of the women's road world championships since the reintroduction in 2012 in the six-man team time trial are listed below. From 1987 to 1994 national teams competed in team time trials.
Mixed team
All the winning teams of the Road World Championships in the mixed team since the launch at the UCI Road World Championships 2019 are listed below. Teams of six, each consisting of 3 women and 3 men from the national team, will start.
| year | venue | World Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
 Yorkshire
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 Netherlands
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Juniors
In 1973 and 1974 the UCI open junior European championships took place as a forerunner to the Junior World Championships.
| year | venue | European Champion (road race) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 |
 Munich
|
 Claes Svensson
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| 1974 |
 Warsaw
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| event | gold | silver | bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 |
Soviet Union Yuri Zajac Sergej Szepalkow Vladimir Schapovalov Alexej Szewczenko |
 DenmarkGert Frank Ole Rasmussen Per Thomsen Olaf Petersen |
 SwitzerlandHenri-Daniel Reymond Serge Demierre Daniel Schwab Alex Frei |
All winners of the Junior Road World Championships in road racing are listed below:
| year | venue | World Champion (road race) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 |
Lausanne
|
 Roberto Visentini
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| 1976 |
 Liege
|
Ronald Bessems
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| 1977 |
 Vienna
|
Ronny van Holen
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| 1978 |
 Washington, DC
|
Vladimir Makarkin
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| 1979 |
 Buenos Aires
|
Greg LeMond
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| 1980 |
 Mexico city
|
Roberto Ciampi
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| 1981 |
 Grimma
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Beat Schumacher
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| 1982 |
Florence
|
Roger Six
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| 1983 |
 Wanganui
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Søren Lilholt
|
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| 1984 |
 Beuvron-en-Auge
|
Tom Cordes
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| 1985 |
Stuttgart
|
Raymond Meijs
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| 1986 |
 Casablanca
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Michel Zanoli
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| 1987 |
Bergamo
|
 Pavel Tonkov
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| 1988 |
Odense
|
Gianluca Tarocco
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| 1989 |
Moscow
|
Patrick Vetsch
|
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| 1990 |
Middlesbrough
|
Marco Serpellini
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| 1991 |
Colorado Springs
|
Jeff Evanshire
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| 1992 |
 Olympia
|
Giuseppe Palumbo
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| 1993 |
 Perth
|
Giuseppe Palumbo
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All the winners of the Junior Road World Championships in road racing and individual time trials are listed below:
Juniors
All winners of the road world championships for junior women in road races and individual time trials are listed below:
Record winner
- Men's road races (professionals): Alfredo Binda , Rik Van Steenbergen , Eddy Merckx , Óscar Freire Gomez and Peter Sagan (3 each)
- Street races of men (amateurs): Giuseppe Martano and Gustav-Adolf Schur (2 each)
- Men's individual time trial: Fabian Cancellara and Tony Martin (4 each)
- Men's U23 individual time trial: Mikkel Bjerg (3)
- Men's four-man team time trial: Italy (8)
- Women's road race: Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (5)
- Women's individual time trial: Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli (4)
- Junior road race: Giuseppe Palumbo and Diego Ulissi (2 each)
- Individual time trial of the juniors: Fabian Cancellara , Michail Ignatjew and Marcel Kittel (2 each)
- Juniors Road Race: Nicole Cooke (2)
In the road race of the men under 23, as well as in the individual time trial of the juniors, no one has been able to secure the world title more than once.
Medal table
(As of April 28, 2020)
This list contains the medals of the individual decisions of men & women professionals.
| Men | Women | total | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total | gold | silver | bronze | total | gold | silver | bronze | total |
| 1. |
Belgium
|
26th | 12 | 13 | 51 | 6th | 6th | 4th | 16 | 32 | 18th | 17th | 67 |
| 2. |
Netherlands
|
8th | 5 | 8th | 21st | 17th | 20th | 7th | 44 | 25th | 25th | 15th | 65 |
| 3. |
Italy
|
19th | 23 | 17th | 59 | 5 | 7th | 11 | 23 | 24 | 30th | 28 | 82 |
| 4th |
France
|
9 | 12 | 16 | 37 | 14th | 7th | 3 | 24 | 23 | 19th | 19th | 61 |
| 5. |
Germany
|
9 | 12 | 11 | 32 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 24 | 18th | 17th | 21st | 56 |
| 6th |
United States
|
3 | 4th | 1 | 8th | 9 | 7th | 8th | 24 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 32 |
| 7th |
Switzerland
|
8th | 6th | 9 | 23 | 3 | 4th | 1 | 8th | 11 | 10 | 9 | 31 |
| 8th. |
United Kingdom
|
4th | 6th | 3 | 13 | 6th | 3 | 4th | 13 | 10 | 9 | 7th | 26th |
| 9. |
Spain
|
8th | 9 | 14th | 31 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 9 | 10 | 16 | 35 |
| 10. |
Australia
|
6th | 4th | 2 | 12 | 0 | 6th | 5 | 11 | 6th | 10 | 7th | 23 |
| 11. |
Russia
|
0 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 4th | 9 | 13 | 26th | 4th | 12 | 14th | 30th |
| 12. |
 Lithuania
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4th | 9 | 4th | 2 | 4th | 10 |
| 13. |
Sweden
|
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8th | 3 | 4th | 3 | 10 |
| 14th |
Slovakia
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 15th |
Denmark
|
1 | 3 | 2 | 6th | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 9 |
| 16. |
 Belarus
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
| 17th |
 Luxembourg
|
0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6th |
| 18th |
New Zealand
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 19th |
 Ukraine
|
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4th |
| 20th |
 Norway
|
1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 21st |
 Ireland
|
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 22nd |
Poland
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 23. |
 Colombia
|
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24. |
 Portugal
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 25th |
 Canada
|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 0 | 3 | 4th | 7th |
| 26th |
Austria
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 26th |
 Slovenia
|
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 26th |
 Hungary
|
0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 29 |
 Kazakhstan
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 30th |
 Finland
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The list does not include the medals from junior and U23 competitions. As of May 6, 2020
| Medal table | |||||
| space | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Italy
|
52 | 48 | 43 | 143 |
| 2 |
Belgium
|
42 | 29 | 30th | 101 |
| 3 |
Netherlands
|
40 | 35 | 30th | 105 |
| 4th |
Germany including the German Democratic Republic
|
35 | 28 | 33 | 96 |
| 5 |
France
|
32 | 31 | 30th | 93 |
| 6th |
United States
|
19th | 18th | 13 | 50 |
| 7th |
Soviet Union
|
16 | 16 | 18th | 50 |
| 8th |
Switzerland
|
15th | 22nd | 19th | 56 |
| 9 |
United Kingdom
|
13 | 11 | 12 | 36 |
| 10 |
Sweden
|
10 | 5 | 8th | 23 |
| 11 |
Spain
|
9 | 13 | 18th | 40 |
| 12 |
Australia
|
7th | 16 | 10 | 33 |
| 13 |
Denmark
|
7th | 11 | 9 | 27 |
| 14th |
Poland
|
7th | 11 | 4th | 22nd |
| 15th |
Russia
|
3 | 4th | 4th | 11 |
| 16 |
Lithuania
|
3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 17th |
Slovakia
|
3 | 1 | - | 4th |
| 18th |
Norway
|
2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 19th |
Belarus
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
| 20th |
Luxembourg
|
1 | 3 | 4th | 8th |
| 21st |
New Zealand
|
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 22nd |
Ukraine
|
1 | 2 | 1 | 4th |
| 23 |
Ireland
|
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 24 |
 Latvia
|
1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
| 25th |
Colombia
|
1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 26th |
Portugal
|
1 | - | - | 1 |
| 27 |
Canada
|
- | 4th | 4th | 8th |
| 28 |
 Czechoslovakia
|
- | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 29 |
Austria
|
- | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 30th |
Slovenia
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 30th |
Hungary
|
- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 32 |
 Brazil
|
- | 1 | - | 1 |
| 33 |
Kazakhstan
|
- | - | 2 | 2 |
| 34 |
Uruguay
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
| 34 |
 Czech Republic
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
| 34 |
 Ecuador
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
| 34 |
Finland
|
- | - | 1 | 1 |
Web links
- Official website
- Results of the road races on uci.ch (PDF)
- Results of the time trial on uci.ch (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship. Covadonga Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 .
- ↑ UCI regulations "General organization of cycling as a sport", 1.3.063 there, accessed on July 26, 2012.
- ↑ UCI 'B' WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2003 in AIGLE and MONTHEY: RECORD NUMBER OF ENTRIES EXPECTED ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ UCI Technical Guide pdf 3.37 MB (English) accessed on July 19, 2012.
- ↑ Joachim Logisch: Many regret the end of the World Championship team time trial. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
- ↑ UCI qualification criteria for the World Championships Men Elite 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. (English / French), accessed May 17, 2011.
- ↑ a b UCI regulations for world championships ( 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. , there 9.2.014ff (English / French), accessed on May 17, 2011.
- ↑ UCI qualification criteria for the World Championships Men U23 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. (English / French), accessed May 17, 2011.
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