UCI Road World Championships 2021

This article describes a recent event . The information can therefore change quickly. The event will run until September 26, 2021 .

UCI Road World Championships 2021
output	88th UCI Road World Championships
organizer	Union Cycliste Internationale
sport	Road cycling
host	Flanders region
date	September 19-26, 2021
Competitions	11
Official website	flanders2021.com
<Imola 2020	> Wollongong 2022

The 88th UCI Road World Championships will be held in the Belgian region of Flanders from September 19 to 26, 2021 .

Flanders would thus host the UCI road world championships for the seventh time , after 1950 in Moorslede , 1957 in Waregem , 1963 and 1988 in Ronse and 1969 and 2002 in Zolder .

The time trials are held from Sunday to Tuesday; Start is in Knokke-Heist and finish in the historic center of Bruges . The road races are planned from Thursday to Sunday, starting in Antwerp and finishing in Leuven . Several laps are to be driven in the area around Leuven.

This year the road world championships will be 100 years old: the first event took place in Copenhagen in 1921 , but only for amateurs , as the UCI believed that there were too few professional racing drivers for their own race at that time.

Time schedule

date	Time	Great	Distance (km)	Round	Altitude difference	Start finish	World Champion 2021	World Champion 2020
Individual time trial
Sunday September 19th	14:30	Men's elite	43.3		78	Knokke-Heist - Bruges	Filippo Ganna	Filippo Ganna
Monday 20th September	10:40	Men U23	30.3		54	Knokke-Heist – Bruges		Mikkel Bjerg (2019)
	14:40	Women elite	30.3		54	Knokke-Heist – Bruges		Anna van der Breggen
Tuesday, September 21	10:30	Juniors	19.3		32	Knokke-Heist – Bruges		Aigul Garejewa (2019)
	14:55	Juniors	22.3		44	Knokke-Heist – Bruges		Antonio Tiberi (2019)
Wednesday September 22nd	13:45	Mixed season	44.5		129	Knokke-Heist – Bruges		Netherlands (2019)
Road racing
Friday September 24th	8:15	Juniors	73.7		624	Lions - lions		Quinn Simmons (2019)
	13:25	Men U23	162.6		1049	Antwerp - Lions		Samuele Battistella (2019)
Saturday September 25th	8:15	Juniors	119.4		995	Lions-lions		Megan Jastrab (2019)
	12:20	Women elite	157.7		1047	Antwerp – Lions		Anna van der Breggen
Sunday September 26th	10:25	Men's elite	267.7		2562	Antwerp – Lions		Julian Alaphilippe

• In 2020 only the road races and individual time trials of the elite (women and men) were held due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Results

Men's elite

Individual time trial

Filippo Ganna (here as world champion in the single pursuit) became world champion in the individual time trial for the second time in a row

place	athlete	country	Time (h)	Distance (min)
1	Filippo Ganna	ITA	47: 47.83 (54.355 km / h)
2	Wout van Aert	BEL	47: 53.20	+ 0: 05.37
3	Remco Evenepoel	BEL	48: 31.17	+ 0: 43.34
4th	Kasper Asgreen	THE	48: 33.47	+ 0: 45.64
5	Stefan Küng	SUI	48: 54.03	+1: 06.20
6th	Tony Martin	GER	49: 05.10	+1: 17.27
7th	Stefan Bissegger	SUI	49: 13.27	+1: 25.44
8th	Ethan Hayter	GBR	49: 14.04	+1: 26.21
9	Edoardo Affini	ITA	49: 36.53	+1: 48.70
10	Tadej Pogačar	SLO	49: 40.37	+1: 52.54
		...
11	Max Walscheid	GER	49: 41.30	+1: 53.47
37	Felix Ritzinger	AUT	52: 55.82	+ 5: 07.99

Track length: 43.3 kilometers
55 drivers from 39 nations started.

Men U23

Individual time trial

place	athlete	country	Time (min)	distance
1	Johan Price-Pejtersen	THE	34: 29.75 (52.702 km / h)
2	Lucas Plapp	THE END	34: 39.99	+ 0: 10.24
3	Florian Vermeersch	BEL	34: 41.14	+ 0: 11.39
4th	Søren Wærenskjold	NOR	34: 43.17	+ 0: 13.42
5	Mick van Dijke	NED	34: 54.16	+ 0: 24.41
6th	Daan Hoole	NED	35: 09.66	+ 0: 39.91
7th	Ethan Vernon	GBR	35: 13.53	+ 0: 43.78
8th	Michel Hessmann	GER	35: 18.04	+ 0: 48.29
9	Filippo Baroncini	AUT	35: 27.60	+ 0: 57.85
10	Magnus Sheffield	United States	35: 28.70	+ 0: 58.95
		...
17th	Tobias Bayer	AUT	35: 49.70	+1: 19.95
19th	Alexandre Balmer	SUI	35: 54.04	+1: 24.29
24	Valère Thiebaud	SUI	36: 01.03	+1: 31.28
28	Maurice Ballerstedt	GER	36: 20.46	+ 1:50, 71

Route length: 30.3 kilometers.
68 drivers from 43 nations were registered, one driver did not start, another did not finish the race.

Web links

• official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 2021 World Road Championships in Flanders! In: cyclinginflanders.cc. October 1, 2018, accessed September 27, 2020 .