UCI Road World Championships 2002

The 69th UCI Road World Championships 2002 took place from October 8th to 13th in the Belgian city of Zolder . The start and finish area was on Circuit Zolder . A total of ten decisions were made in the disciplines of time trials and road races as well as in the categories women, men, men U23, juniors and juniors.

Men

Road race (256 km)

Platza	athlete	country	time
1	Mario Cipollini	ITA	5:30:03 h
2	Robbie McEwen	OUT	same time
3	Erik Zabel	GER	same time

Individual time trial (45 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Santiago Botero	COL	48: 08.4 min
2	Michael Rich	GER	48: 16.7 min
3	Igor González de Galdeano	ESP	48: 25.6 min

Women

Road race (128 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Susanne Ljungskog	SWE	2:59:15 h
2	Nicole Brändli	SUI	same time
3	Joane Somarriba	ESP	same time

Individual time trial (23 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Sulphia Sabirova	RUS	30: 02.6 min
2	Nicole Brändli	SUI	30: 17.3 min
3	Karin Thürig	SUI	30: 18.3 min

U23 men

Road race (166 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Francesco Chicchi	ITA	3:36:28 h
2	Francisco Gutierrez	ESP	same time
3	David Loosli	SUI	same time

Individual time trial (33 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Tomas Vaitkus	LTU	38: 40.8 min
2	Alexander Bespalov	RUS	39: 22.5 min
3	Sérgio Paulinho	POR	40: 09.8 min

Juniors

Road race (128 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Arnaud Gérard	FRA	2:50:17 h
2	Jukka Vastaranta	FIN	same time
3	Nicholas Sanderson	OUT	same time

Individual time trial (23 km)

space	athlete	country	time
1	Mikhail Ignatiev	RUS	28: 30.4 min
2	Mark Jamieson	OUT	28: 40.7 min
3	Vincenzo Nibali	ITA	28: 56.4 min

Juniors

Road race (77 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Suzanne de Goede	NED	1:59:00 h
2	Claudia Stumpf	GER	same time
3	Monica Holer	SWE	same time

Individual time trial (11 km)

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Anna Zugno	ITA	15: 54.2 min
2	Tatiana Guderzo	ITA	4:00 p.m., 7 min
3	Claudia Hecht	GER	16:01.4 min

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	3	1	1	5
2	Russia	2	1	-	3
3	Sweden	1	-	1	2
4th	France	1	-	-	1
	Colombia	1	-	-	1
	Lithuania	1	-	-	1
	Netherlands	1	-	-	1
8th	Germany	-	2	2	4th
	Switzerland	-	2	2	4th
10	Australia	-	2	1	3
11	Spain	-	1	2	3
12	Finland	-	1	-	1
13	Portugal	-	-	1	1

See also

• UCI Track World Championships 2002