UEC European Road Championships 2018

The UEC Road European Championships 2018 ( 2018 UEC Road European Championships ) took place from 5th to 9th August 2018 in Glasgow, UK, for the elite class. The road competitions for the juniors and the U23 drivers were held from July 12th to 15th in Brno, Czech Republic, and in Zlín . After 1995 ( Trutnov ) and 2013 ( Olomouc ) , the Czech Republic hosted the European Road Championships for the third time.

A total of twelve titles in the elite, junior and U23 categories were awarded to men and women at both championships. The elite European championships on the road as well as the European rail championships were held as part of the first ever multi-sport event, the European Championships , which was organized simultaneously in Glasgow and Berlin .

734 athletes from 42 countries registered their participation in the European Road Championships for Juniors / U23, in order to find eight titles among themselves. The individual time trials were held in Brno, the road races in Zlín.

Time schedule

date	Time (CET)	competition	Distance (km)	European Champion 2017	European Champion 2018
Competitions in Brno and Zlín
Thursday July 12th - Brno	10:00	Juniors - individual time trial	011.5	Elena Pirrone	Vittoria Guazzini
	13:00	Women U 23 - individual time trial	023.0	Pernille Mathiesen	Aafke Soet
Friday July 13th - Brno	9:00	Juniors - Individual Time Trial	023.0	Andreas Leknessund	Remco Evenepoel
	13:00	Men U23 - individual time trial	023.0	Kasper Asgreen	Edoardo Affini
Saturday 14 July - Zlín	11:00	Juniors - street races	75.6	Lorena Wiebes	Aygul Gareeva
	14:30	Women U23 - Road Race	108.0	Pernille Mathiesen	Nikola Nosková
Sunday 15th July - Zlín	9:00	Juniors - road racing	118.8	Michele Gazzoli	Remco Evenepoel
	13:00	Men U 23 - road race	140.4	Casper Pedersen	Marc Hirschi
Competitions in Glasgow
Sunday 5th August	12:30	Women's elite - road racing	130	Marianne Vos	Marta Bastianelli
Wednesday 8th August	8:45	Women Elite - Individual Time Trial	32	Ellen van Dijk	Ellen van Dijk
	12:45	Elite Men - Individual Time Trial	45.7	Victor Campenaerts	Victor Campenaerts
Sunday August 12th	10:30	Elite men - road racing	230	Alexander Kristoff	Matteo Trentin

Results

Women elite

Road racing

space	sportswoman	country	Time (h)
1	Marta Bastianelli	ITA	3:28:15 (37.45 km / h)
2	Marianne Vos	NED	equal time
3	Lisa Brennauer	GER	equal time
4th	Elena Cecchini	ITA	equal time
5	Rasa Leleivytė	LTU	equal time
6th	Christina Malling	THE	equal time
7th	Kaat Hannes	BEL	equal time
8th	Anna van der Breggen	NED	equal time
9	Lorena Wiebes	NED	equal time
10	Danielle Rowe	GBR	equal time
		...
24	Liane Lippert	GER	+ 0:08 min
48	Lisa Klein	GER	+ 3:47 min
49	Clara Koppenburg	GER	+ 3:47 min
50	Nicole Hanselmann	SUI	+ 3:47 min
52	Martina Ritter	AUT	+ 3:47 min
53	Kathrin Hammes	GER	+ 3:47 min
54	Trixi Worrack	GER	+ 3:47 min
63	Sarah Rijkes	AUT	+ 5:50 min
70	Desirée Ehrler	SUI	+ 10:11 min

Route length: 130 kilometers.

Marta Bastianelli was the European champion in the sprint of the front field ahead of Marianne Vos and Lisa Brennauer , who had won the single pursuit title at the European Railway Championships a few days earlier . Before that, a late attack by Anna van der Breggen and Elisa Longo Borghini was ended on the final kilometer.

There were 107 riders at the start, of which 73 made it to the finish. The race ended prematurely. a. Kathrin Schweinberger from Austria; Charlotte Becker and Mieke Kröger from Germany.

Individual time trial

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)	Distance (min)
1	Ellen van Dijk	NED	41: 39.80 (46.517 km / h)
2	Anna van der Breggen	NED	41: 41.83	+ 0: 02.13
3	Trixi Worrack	GER	42: 48.29	+1: 09.59
4th	Anastassija Pliaskina	RUS	43: 01.16	+1: 21.46
5	Audrey Cordon	FRA	43: 35.64	+1: 55.94
6th	Pernille Mathiesen	THE	43: 48.47	+ 2: 09.04
7th	Elisa Longo Borghini	ITA	43: 51.78	+ 2: 12.08
8th	Eugenia Bujak	SLO	44: 00.00	+ 2: 20.30
9	Hayley Simmonds	GBR	44: 07.07	+ 2: 27.37
10	Lotta Lepistö	FIN	44: 18.13	+ 2: 38.43
		...
11	Martina Ritter	AUT	44: 23.14	+ 2: 43.44
14th	Lisa Brennauer	GER	44: 40.69	+ 3: 00.09
15th	Nicole Hanselmann	SUI	45: 08.76	+ 3: 29.06
28	Marlen Reusser	SUI	31: 49.27	+ 2: 58.92
29	Martina Ritter	SUI	31: 52.70	+ 3: 02.35

Route length: 32.3 kilometers.

34 riders started, 32 of whom were rated.

Men's elite

Road racing

space	athlete	country	time
1	Matteo Trentin	ITA	5:50:02 h (39.493 km / h)
2	Mathieu van der Poel	NED	equal time
3	Wout Van Aert	BEL	equal time
4th	Jesús Herrada	ESP	equal time
5	Davide Cimolai	ITA	equal time
6th	Xandro Meurisse	BEL	+ 00:07
7th	Michael Albasini	SUI	+ 00:07
8th	Pierre-Luc Périchon	FRA	+ 00:07
9	Nico Denz	GER	+ 00:25
10	Maurits Lammertink	NED	+ 02:15
		...
13	Rick Zabel	GER	+ 02:22
17th	Joshua Huppertz	GER	+ 02:25
27	Alexander Krieger	GER	+ 02:32
28	Matthias Krizek	AUT	+ 02:32
31	John Degenkolb	GER	+ 02:32
34	Claudio Imhof	SUI	+ 02:32
35	Roland Thalmann	SUI	+ 02:32
36	Jonas Koch	GER	+ 02:32
40	Lukas Spengler	GER	+ 03:18
44	Stephan Rabitsch	AUT	+ 04:12

Route length: 230.4 kilometers.

European champion in the sprint of a six-man lead group was Matteo Trentin ahead of reigning Cyclocross europameister Mathieu van der Poel and reigning cyclo-cross world champion Wout Van Aert . The original group of ten riders formed about 50 kilometers from the finish after an attack by Nico Denz , but fell apart nine kilometers later after a fall. There were 136 drivers at the start, 51 of which reached the finish. The reigning road world champion Peter Sagan was one of the retired drivers .

The Germans Roger Kluge and Marcel Meisen as well as the Swiss Fabian Lienhard and Dylan Page also had to give up .

Individual time trial

For the second time in a row European champion in the individual time trial: Victor Campenaerts from Belgium

space	athlete	country	Time (min)	Distance (min)
1	Victor Campenaerts	BEL	53: 38.78 (51.112 km / h)
2	Jonathan Castroviejo	ESP	53: 39.41	+ 0: 00.63
3	Maximilian Schachmann	GER	54: 06.16	+ 0: 27.38
4th	Yves Lampaert	BEL	54: 09.77	+ 0: 30.99
5	Alex Dowsett	GBR	54: 13.84	+ 0: 35.06
6th	Ryan Mullen	IRL	54: 19.21	+ 0: 40.43
7th	Stefan Küng	SUI	54: 23.23	+ 0: 44.45
8th	Jos van Emden	NED	54: 33.98	+ 0: 55.20
9	Rasmus Christian Quaade	THE	54: 34.28	+ 0: 55.50
10	Dylan van Baarle	NED	54: 42.27	+1: 03.49
		...
14th	Marco Mathis	GER	55: 45.23	+ 2: 06.45
23	Matthias Brändle	AUT	57: 30.96	+ 3: 52.18

Route length: 45.7 kilometers.
There were 34 drivers at the start.

Women U23

Road race (108 km) space sportswoman country Time (h) Nikola Nosková  CZE 3:31:47 (30.60 km / h) Aafke Soet  NED + 3:49 min Letizia Paternoster  ITA + 7:15 min

Individual time trial (23 km) space sportswoman country Time (min) Aafke Soet  NED 33: 24.34 (41.32 km / h) Lisa Klein  GER +1: 05.65 Nikola Nosková  CZE +1: 08.21

Men U23

Road race (140.4 km) space athlete country time Marc Hirschi  SUI 3: 58: 14h (35.36 km / h) Fernando Barceló Aragón  ESP equal time Victor Lafay  FRA equal time

Time trial (23 km) space athlete country Time (min) Edoardo Affini  ITA 29:26:53 (46.89 km / h) Izidor Penko  SLO + 25.71 s Markus Wildauer  AUT + 31.78 s

Juniors

Road race (75.6 km) space sportswoman country Time (h) Aygul Gareeva  RUS 2:28:29 (30.55 km / h) Vittoria Guazzini  ITA + 6:01 min Hannah Ludwig  GER equal time

Individual time trial (11.5 km) space sportswoman country Time (min) Vittoria Guazzini  ITA 17: 00.57 (40.59 km / h) Hannah Ludwig  GER + 8.17 s Marta Jakulska  POLE + 11.09 s

Juniors

Road Race (118.8 km) space athlete country Time (h) Remco Evenepoel  BEL 3:15:19 (36.49 km / h) Alexandre Balmer  SUI + 9:44 min Carlos Rodriguez Cano  ESP + 9:46 min

Individual time trial (23 km) space athlete country Time (min) Remco Evenepoel  BEL 29: 51.30 (46.23 km / h) Ilan Van Wilder  BEL + 24.14 s Antonio Tiberi  ITA + 40.26 s

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	4th	1	2	7th
2	Belgium	3	1	1	5
3	Netherlands	2	4th	-	6th
4th	Switzerland	1	1	-	2
5	Czech Republic	1	-	1	2
6th	Russia	1	-	-	1
7th	Germany	-	2	4th	6th
8th	Spain	-	1	2	3
9	France	-	1	-	1
	Slovenia	-	1	-	1
11	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
Total		12	12	12	36

Bids

Association of German Cyclists

• U23 women time trial: Lisa Klein , Christa Riffel
• U23 women street races: Lisa Klein , Christa Riffel , Lea Lin Teutenberg , Jacqueline Dietrich , Wiebke Rodieck
• U23 men time trial: Juri Hollmann , Leon Heinschke
• U23 men street races: Johannes Adamietz , Georg Zimmermann , Tobias Nolde , Victor Brück , Dorian Lübbers , Juri Hollmann
• Junior women time trial: Hannah Ludwig
• Junior street races: Hannah Ludwig
• Juniors time trial: Jakob Geßner , Michael Heßmann
• Junior road races: Jakob Geßner , Michael Heßmann , Marius Mayrhofer , Felix Engelhardt , Pirmin Benz , Erik Vater . Substitute driver: Tom Lindner
• Women time trial. Lisa Brennauer , Trixi Worrack
• Women's street races: Charlotte Becker , Lisa Brennauer , Kathrin Hammes , Lisa Klein , Clara Koppenburg , Mieke Kröger , Liane Lippert
• Men time trial: Marco Mathis , Maximilian Schachmann
• Men street races: Nico Denz , John Degenkolb , André Greipel , Joshua Huppertz , Jonas Koch , Roger Kluge , Alexander Krieger , Marcel Meisen , Marcel Sieberg , Rick Zabel

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  Lea-Lin Teutenberg

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  Lisa Klein

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  Juri Hollmann

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  Tobias Nolde

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  Jakob Geßner

Austrian Cycling Association

• U23 women time trial: Hannah Gruber-Stadler
• U23 women street races: Hannah Gruber-Stadler , Christina Schweinberger , Kathrin Schweinberger
• U23 men time trial: Patrick Gamper , Markus Wildauer
• U23 men street races: Tobias Bayer , Mario Gamper , Patrick Gamper , Markus Wildauer , Florian Kierner , Felix Ritzinger . Substitute driver: Moran Vermeulen
• Junior time trial: Janine Kokas
• Junior street races: Katharina Kreidl , Hannah Streicher
• Juniors time trial: Valentin Götzinger , Maximilian Kabas , Maximilian Schmidbauer
• Junior road races: Paul Bleyer , Alexander Gratzer , Maximilian Kabas , Maximilian Schmidbauer , Valentin Götzinger , Florian Maier , Jakob Reiter , Mario Holzleitner , Nikolas Riegler , Fabian Steininger

• 

  Kathrin Schweinberger

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  Christina Schweinberger

Swiss Cycling

• Elite women time trial: Nicole Hanselmann
• Elite women street races: Desirée Ehrler , Nicole Hanselmann
• Elite men time trial: Stefan Küng
• Elite men street races: Michael Albasini , Claudio Imhof , Fabian Lienhard , Dylan Page , Lukas Spengler , Roland Thalmann . Substitute driver: Colin Stüssi
• U23 women time trial: Fabienne Buri
• U23 women road races: Fabienne Buri , Meret Zimmermann
• U23 men time trial: Stefan Bissegger , Marc Hirschi . Substitute driver: Gino Mäder
• U23 men street races: Gordian Banzer , Dimitri Bussard , Marc Hirschi , Gino Mäder , Justin Paroz , Joab Schneiter . Substitute drivers: Reto Müller , Stefan Bissegger
• Junior time trial: Noemi Rüegg
• Junior street races: Noemi Rüegg , Lara Stehli
• Junior time trial: Alexandre Balmer
• Junior road races: Alexandre Balmer , Jonathan Bögli , Ruben Eggenberg , Igor Humbert , Simon Imboden , Manuel Naegeli

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  Stefan Bissegger

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  Marc Hirschi

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  Gino Mäder

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  Joab Schneiter

See also

• UEC European Rail Championships 2018
• UEC European Junior Championships / U23 2018

Web links

• Official website of Glasgow
• Technical Guide Brno

• Results Brno / Zlín

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 734 Registered for # Euroroad18 Junior / Under23 in Brno / Zlin. In: uec.ch. July 10, 2018, accessed July 10, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Brennauer wins the bronze medal in the Glasgow street race. In: radsport-news.com. August 5, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Trentino new European road championship. In: rad-net.de. August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Trentin defeats van der Poel and Van Aert in a tight sprint. In: radsport-news.com. August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .