UCI Road World Championships 2009

The 76th UCI Road World Championships were from 23 to 27 September 2009 at the Swiss Mendrisio instead. The last road cycling world championship was held there in 1971 .

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

stretch

The start of the road race was in Mendrisio at an altitude of 342  m above sea level. M. The route led with up to 10% gradient to Castel San Pietro , where at 438  m above sea level. M. the highest point has been reached. The drivers then reached the lowest point at 250  m above sea level via a longer descent to Balerna . M. After passing the marshalling yard of Chiasso the route again rose up to 10%, to the village of Novazzano ( 376  m above sea level. M. ). The rest of the way to the finish was gently sloping. The length of the circuit was 13.8 km, the difference in altitude 245 m.

The individual time trial of the men and the men under 23 took place on a 16.6 km long circuit with a difference in altitude of 120 m. The first section from Mendrisio ( 342  m above sea level ) via Capolago to Riva San Vitale ( 273  m above sea level ) was slightly sloping. On the way to Rancate ( 359  m above sea level ) a 10% steep incline had to be overcome. It continued flat over Ligornetto ( 362  m above sea level ), Stabio ( 340  m above sea level ) and Genestrerio ( 340  m above sea level ) back to Mendrisio. The women's time trial circuit was similar, except that it did not touch the villages of Capolago and Riva San Vitale; here the length was 13.4 km and the difference in altitude 110 m.

Men

Road racing

space	athlete	country	time
1	Cadel Evans	OUT	6:56:26 h
2	Alexander Kolobnew	RUS	+ 0:27 min
3	Joaquim Rodríguez	ESP	equal time
4th	Samuel Sánchez	ESP	+ 0:30 min
5	Fabian Cancellara	SUI	equal time
6th	Philippe Gilbert	BEL	+ 0:51 min
7th	Matti Breschel	THE	equal time
8th	Damiano Cunego	ITA	equal time
9	Alejandro Valverde	ESP	equal time
10	Simon Gerrans	OUT	+ 1:47 min

Date: September 27th
Length: 262.2 km (19 laps), 4655 meters in altitude

Individual time trial

space	athlete	country	time
1	Fabian Cancellara	SUI	57: 55.74 min
2	Gustav Larsson	SWE	+ 1:27 min
3	Tony Martin	GER	+ 2:30 min
	Tom Zirbel *	United States	+ 2:47 min
4th	Marco Pinotti	ITA	+ 3:03 min
5	Janez Brajkovič	SLO	+ 3:09 min
6th	Koos Moerenhout	NED	+ 3:12 min
7th	Alexander Vinokurov	KAZ	+ 3:21 min
8th	Ignatas Konovalovas	LTU	+ 3:34 min
9	Bert Grabsch	GER	+ 3:38 min

Date: September 24th
Length: 49.8 km (3 laps), 360 meters in altitude

* Tom Zirbel was removed from the list of results because of a positive doping test on August 29, 2009.

Women

Road racing

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Tatiana Guderzo	ITA	3:33:25 h
2	Marianne Vos	NED	+ 0:19 min
3	Noemi Cantele	ITA	equal time
4th	Kristin Armstrong	United States	equal time
5	Diana Žiliūtė	LTU	+ 1:07 min
6th	Judith Arndt	GER	equal time
7th	Remember Willock	CAN	equal time
8th	Nicole Brändli	SUI	equal time
9	Grace Verbeke	BEL	equal time
10	Catherine Cheatley	NZL	equal time

Date: September 27th
Length: 124.2 km (9 laps), 2205 meters in altitude

Individual time trial

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Kristin Armstrong	United States	35: 26.09 min
2	Noemi Cantele	ITA	+ 0: 55.01 min
3	Linda Villumsen	THE	+ 0: 58.25 min
4th	Judith Arndt	GER	+1: 24.25 min
5	Christiane Soeder	AUT	+1: 28.27 min
6th	Amber addition	United States	+1: 29.74 min
7th	Tatiana Antoshina	RUS	+1: 31.75 min
8th	Tara Whitten	CAN	+1: 33.99 min
9	Karin Thürig	SUI	+1: 38.01 min
10	Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli	FRA	+1: 48.34 min

Date: 23 September
Length: 26.8 km (2 laps), 220 meters in altitude

Men U23

Road racing

space	athlete	country	time
1	Romain Sicard	FRA	4:41:54 min
2	Carlos Betancur	COL	+ 0:27 min
3	Yegor Silin	RUS	equal time
4th	Peter Kennaugh	GBR	+ 0:49 min
5	Jérôme Baugnies	BEL	+ 0:54 min
6th	Marko Kump	SLO	equal time
7th	Yevgeny Nepomnyachchi	KAZ	equal time
8th	Cayetano Sarmiento	COL	equal time
9	Matthias Brändle	AUT	+ 1:00 min
10	Damiano Caruso	ITA	+ 1:33 min

Date: September 26th
Length: 179.4 km (13 laps), 3185 meters in altitude

Individual time trial

space	athlete	country	time
1	Jack Bobridge	OUT	40: 44.79 min
2	Nélson Oliveira	POR	+ 0:18 min
3	Patrick Gretsch	GER	+ 0:27 min
4th	Marcel Kittel	GER	+ 0:34 min
5	Adriano Malori	ITA	+ 0:36 min
6th	Alfredo Balloni	ITA	+ 0:39 min
7th	Alex Dowsett	GBR	+ 0:43 min
8th	Blaž Jarc	SLO	+ 0:59 min
9	Rasmus Christian Quaade	THE	+ 1:06 min
10	David Veilleux	CAN	+ 1:11 min

Date: September 23
Length: 33.2 km (2 laps), 240 meters in altitude

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Australia	2	-	-	2
2	Italy	1	1	1	3
3	United States	1	-	-	1
3	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
3	France	1	-	-	1
6th	Portugal	-	1	-	1
6th	Sweden	-	1	-	1
6th	Colombia	-	1	-	1
6th	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
10	Russia	-	1	1	2
11	Germany	-	-	2	2
12	Denmark	-	-	1	1
12	Spain	-	-	1	1

Web links

• The Mendrisio worlds and other memories at velonews.competitor.com , accessed April 8, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the road race route ( memento from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) STREET RACES MEN ELITE + U23 + WOMEN ( Memento from November 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Description of the route time trial men and U23 ( Memento from November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Description of the route time trial women ( Memento from January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

See also

• UCI Track World Championships 2009