UCI Road World Championships 2008

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Logo of the UCI Road World Championships 2008

The 75th UCI Road World Championships 2008 were from 23 to 28 September at the Italian Varese instead. In 1951 the UCI Road World Championships were held at the same location.

A total of six decisions were made in the individual time trial and road race disciplines, as well as in the women's elite, men's elite and men U23 classes .

Competitions

Men

Road Race (September 28th)

space athlete country time
1 Alessandro Ballan ItalyItaly ITA 6:37:30 h
2 Damiano Cunego ItalyItaly ITA +0: ​​04 min
3 Matti Breschel DenmarkDenmark THE equal time
4th Davide rebel ItalyItaly ITA equal time
5 Andrij Hrywko UkraineUkraine UKR equal time
6th Joaquim Rodríguez SpainSpain ESP equal time
7th Fabian Wegmann GermanyGermany GER equal time
8th Christian Pfannberger AustriaAustria AUT equal time
9 Nick Nuyens BelgiumBelgium BEL equal time
10 Robert Gesink NetherlandsNetherlands NED equal time

Individual time trial (September 25th)

space athlete country time
1 Bert Grabsch GermanyGermany GER 52: 1.60 min
2 Svein Tuft CanadaCanada CAN 52: 44.39 min
3 David Zabriskie United StatesUnited States United States 52: 53.87 min
4th Levi Leipheimer United StatesUnited States United States 53: 07.02 min
5 Gustav Erik Larsson SwedenSweden SWE 53: 07.44 min
6th Stijn Devolder BelgiumBelgium BEL 53: 17.01 min
7th Tony Martin GermanyGermany GER 53: 17.86 min
8th Janez Brajkovič SloveniaSlovenia SLO 53: 26.76 min
9 David Millar United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR 53: 26.86 min
10 Sylvain Chavanel FranceFrance FRA 53: 27.42 min

Women

Road Race (September 27th)

space Athlete country time
1 Nicole Cooke United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR 3:42:11 h
2 Marianne Vos NetherlandsNetherlands NED equal time
3 Judith Arndt GermanyGermany GER equal time
4th Emma Johansson SwedenSweden SWE + 0:05 min
5 Trixi Worrack GermanyGermany GER + 0:11 min
6th Diana Žiliūtė LithuaniaLithuania LIT + 1:47 min
7th Marta Vilajosana SpainSpain ESP equal time
8th Joanne Kiesanowski New ZealandNew Zealand NZL equal time
9 Alex Wrubleski CanadaCanada CAN equal time
10 Yulia Martissova RussiaRussia RUS equal time

Individual time trial (September 24th)

space Athlete country time
1 Amber addition United StatesUnited States United States 33: 51.35 min
2 Christiane Soeder AustriaAustria AUT 33: 58.91 min
3 Judith Arndt GermanyGermany GER 34: 13.12 min
4th Tatiana Antoshina RussiaRussia RUS 34: 14.74 min
5 Kristin Armstrong United StatesUnited States United States 34: 16.62 min
6th Karin Thürig SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI 34: 21.34 min
7th Susanne Ljungskog SwedenSweden SWE 34: 48.73 min
8th Emma Pooley United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR 34: 48.87 min
9 Charlotte Becker GermanyGermany GER 34: 54.67 min
10 Linda Villumsen DenmarkDenmark THE 34: 56.78 min

Men U23

Road Race (September 26th)

space athlete country time
1 Fabio Duarte ColombiaColombia COL 4:17:02 h
2 Simone Ponzi ItalyItaly ITA equal time
3 John Degenkolb GermanyGermany GER equal time
4th Ben Swift United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR equal time
5 Rui Costa PortugalPortugal POR equal time
6th Cyril Gautier FranceFrance FRA equal time
7th Yegor Silin RussiaRussia RUS equal time
8th Daniel Oss ItalyItaly ITA +0: ​​05 min
9 Dennis van Winden NetherlandsNetherlands NED +0: ​​07 min
10 Damiano Caruso ItalyItaly ITA +0: ​​12 min

Individual time trial (September 23)

space athlete country time
1 Adriano Malori ItalyItaly ITA 41: 35.98 min
2 Patrick Gretsch GermanyGermany GER 42: 25.65 min
3 Cameron Meyer AustraliaAustralia OUT 42: 40.34 min
4th Marcel Wyss SwitzerlandSwitzerland SUI 42: 47.54 min
5 Stefano Borchi ItalyItaly ITA 42: 59.00 min
6th Peter Stetina United StatesUnited States United States 43: 00.59 min
7th Kristijan Koren SloveniaSlovenia SLO 43: 00.81 min
8th Rui Costa PortugalPortugal POR 43: 02.81 min
9 Andreas Henig GermanyGermany GER 43: 08.69 min
10 Artyom Ovechkin RussiaRussia RUS 43: 13.49 min

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 ItalyItaly Italy 2 2 - 4th
2 GermanyGermany Germany 1 1 3 5
3 United StatesUnited States United States 1 - 1 2
4th ColombiaColombia Colombia 1 - - 1
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 1 - - 1
6th AustriaAustria Austria - 1 - 1
CanadaCanada Canada - 1 - 1
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - 1 - 1
9 AustraliaAustralia Australia - - 1 1
DenmarkDenmark Denmark - - 1 1

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