UCI Road World Championships 2020

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Jersey rainbow.svg UCI Road World Championships 2020
output 87th UCI Road World Championships
organizer Union Cycliste Internationale
sport Road cycling
host
date 20.-27. September 2020
Competitions 11
Official website
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It is still uncertain whether the 87th UCI Road World Championships 2020 will be held (as of August 29, 2020).

It was originally planned to take place in Vicenza , Italy , but funding could not be secured there. Then they should take place from September 20 to 27, 2020 in the Swiss towns of Aigle and Martigny . On August 12th of the year the world title fights were canceled due to the extension of the regulations by the Swiss Federal Council for mass events until the end of September due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland . These world championships were supposed to be the eleventh road world championships in Switzerland, but this would be the first time in the French-speaking part of the countryhas been carried out. The competitions should primarily take place in the Rhone Valley . The headquarters of the World Cycling Association UCI is located in Aigle .

The world association UCI wants to make a decision by September 1, 2020 on whether and where the world championships will take place. The region of Tuscany and Imola have now expressed their interest as possible organizers, and according to media reports, the Dutch province of Drenthe as well . The French cycling federation FFC announced at the end of August that it was working with the Haute-Saône department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region on a plan for hosting the World Cup on the Planche des Belles Filles .

Time schedule

(Schedule is not up to date)

date time class Distance (km) Round Altitude Start finish World Champion 2020 World Champion 2019
Individual time trial
Sunday 20th September 13:10 Elite men AustraliaAustralia Rohan Dennis
Monday, September 21 09:10 Men U23 DenmarkDenmark Mikkel Bjerg
14:40 Women United StatesUnited States Chloé Dygert
Tuesday, September 22nd 09:10 Juniors RussiaRussia Aigul Gareeva
13:40 Juniors ItalyItaly Antonio Tiberi
Mixed relay
Wednesday 23 September 13:40 Elite men and women NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Road racing
Friday September 25th 08:30 Juniors United StatesUnited States Megan Jastrab
12:30 Men U 23 ItalyItaly Samuele Battistella
Saturday, September 26th 08:20 Juniors United StatesUnited States Quinn Simmons
13:15 Elite women NetherlandsNetherlands Annemiek van Vleuten
Sunday September 27th 09:55 Elite men DenmarkDenmark Mads Pedersen

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2020 World Championships awarded to Switzerland, 2021 event to take place in Flanders. In: Cycling News. September 27, 2018, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The UCI awards a record number of World Championships for the period 2020-2024. In: uci.org. September 27, 2018, accessed May 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Relaxation comes too late - bike: Road World Cup in Switzerland does not take place. In: Swiss radio and television . August 12, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ France wants to bring the Road World Cup to the Planche des Belles Filles. In: rad-net.de. August 29, 2020, accessed August 29, 2020 .