1998 UCI Road World Championships
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The 1998
UCI Road World Championships
took place in Valkenburg aan de Geul
, Netherlands
, between October 4 and October 11, 1998. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.
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UCI Road World Championships
UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale...
took place in Valkenburg aan de Geul
Valkenburg aan de Geul
Valkenburg aan de Geul is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.-History:Siege and conquest were characteristic of the history of Valkenburg. Each event is withheld, followed by subsequent restorations. This most definitely holds for the castle perched atop of a hill in the middle of the...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, between October 4 and October 11, 1998. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.
Summary
| Men's Events | ||||||
| Men's road race |
Oskar Camenzind |
6h01'30" | Peter van Petegem Peter van Petegem Peter van Petegem is a former professional road racing cyclist. Van Petegem last rode for Quick Step-Innergetic, in 2007. He lived in Horebeke. He was a specialist in spring classics, one of ten riders to win the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris–Roubaix in the same season... |
+ 23" | Michele Bartoli Michele Bartoli Michele Bartoli is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. He was a single-day race specialist, winning three of the five Monument races. Bartoli won the UCI Road World Cup in 1997 and 1998.-Biography:... |
+ 24" |
| Men's time trial |
Abraham Olano Ábraham Olano Abraham Olano Manzano is a Spanish Basque former professional road racing cyclist. His crowning achievement came in 1995 when he became World Road Champion... |
54'32" | Melchior Mauri |
+ 37" | Serhiy Honchar Serhiy Honchar Serhiy Honchar is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He is a former world time trial champion. In the 2006 Tour de France, Honchar lead the general classification after a time-trial win in stage 7.... |
+ 47" |
| Women's Events | ||||||
| Women's road race |
Diana Žiliūtė Diana Žiliute Diana Žiliūtė is a Lithuanian racing cyclist who dominated the sport in the late 1990s, and continues to be a formidable force in road cycling to this day.... |
2h35'35" | Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel |
s.t. | Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel is a German professional cycle racer. Currently her primary focus is cyclocross racing, however, she has won major road, track and mountain bike races... |
s.t. |
| Women's time trial |
Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel |
31'51" | Zulfiya Zabirova Zulfiya Zabirova Zulfiya Zabirova is a Russian professional cycle racer who won the Gold medal in the time trial event in the 1996 Olympics and later, in 2002, won the World Time Trial Championship.-Biography:... |
s.t. | Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel Hanka Kupfernagel is a German professional cycle racer. Currently her primary focus is cyclocross racing, however, she has won major road, track and mountain bike races... |
+ 2" |
| Men's Under-23 Events | ||||||
| Men's under-23 road race |
Ivan Basso Ivan Basso Ivan Basso is an Italian professional road bicycle racer who is currently racing with UCI ProTeam . Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, is among the best mountain riders in the professional field in the 21st century, and is considered one of the strongest stage race riders... |
4h30" | Rinaldo Nocentini Rinaldo Nocentini Rinaldo Nocentini is an Italian racing cyclist with UCI ProTour team .In the 2009 Tour de France, his first participation in the race, he became leader in the General Classification after participating in a stage-long breakaway on stage 7 to take the yellow jersey from Fabian Cancellara with an... |
+ 16" | Danilo Di Luca Danilo Di Luca Danilo Di Luca is an Italian professional road racing cyclist who rode for numerous UCI Professional Continental teams throughout his career including Liquigas-Bianchi and . He holds victories in the Giro di Lombardia in 2001, the 2005 UCI ProTour and won both the Giro d'Italia and the spring... |
s.t. |
| Men's under-23 time trial |
Thor Hushovd Thor Hushovd Thor Hushovd is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer riding . He has signed for from 2012 onwards. He is known for sprinting and time trialing and is the 2010 Norwegian and world road champion. He is the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road... |
43'19" | Frédéric Finot |
+ 11" | Gianmario Ortenzi |
+ 16" |
| Men's Junior Events | ||||||
| Men's Junior Road Race |
Mark Scanlon |
2h54'36" | Filippo Pozzato Filippo Pozzato Filippo "Pippo" Pozzato is an Italian road racing cyclist with UCI ProTour Team Katusha.-Career:... |
s.t. | Eduard Kiwischow |
s.t. |
| Men's Junior Time Trial |
Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . A time trial specialist, he is a four-time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist... |
29'39" | Torsten Hiekmann Torsten Hiekmann Torsten Hiekmann is a German former professional road bicycle racer.- Palmares :* Regio-Tour - 1 stage * GP Schwarzland * 2nd, National U23 Road Race Championship World U19 Time Trial Champion... |
+ 2" | Filippo Pozzato Filippo Pozzato Filippo "Pippo" Pozzato is an Italian road racing cyclist with UCI ProTour Team Katusha.-Career:... |
+ 7" |
| Women's Junior Events | ||||||
| Women's Junior Road Race |
Tina Liebig Tina Liebig Tina Liebig is a German professional racing cyclist.-Career wins:... |
1h46'51" | Olga Sabelinskaja |
s.t. | Nathalie Bates |
s.t. |
| Women's Junior Time Trial |
Trixi Worrack Trixi Worrack Beatrix Worrack is an elite professional road racing cyclist and the 2003 German national road race champion... |
23'22" | Olga Sabelinskaja |
+ 6" | Geneviève Jeanson Geneviève Jeanson Geneviève Jeanson is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year... |
+ 24" |