2001 UCI Road World Championships
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The 2001 UCI Road World Championships
took place in Lisbon
, Portugal
, between October 9 and October 14, 2001. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.
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 Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, between October 9 and October 14, 2001. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.
Events summary
| Men's Events | ||||||
| Men's road race |
Óscar Freire Óscar Freire Óscar Freire Gómez is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, riding for the UCI ProTeam Rabobank. He is one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship a three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen and Eddy Merckx... |
6h07'21" | Paolo Bettini Paolo Bettini Paolo Bettini is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the coach of the Italian national cycling team. Considered the best classics specialist of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006... |
s.t. | Andrej Hauptman Andrej Hauptman Andrej Hauptman is a Slovenian former professional road racing cyclist.-Palmarès:2000... |
s.t. |
| Men's time trial |
Jan Ullrich Jan Ullrich Jan Ullrich is a German former professional road bicycle racer. In 1997, he was the first German to win the Tour de France. He went on to take five second places and a fourth in 2004 and third in 2005. He is considered one of the best time-trialists in the history of the sport... |
51'50" | David Millar David Millar David Millar is a British road racing cyclist riding for . He has won three stages of the Tour de France, two of the Vuelta a España and one Stage of the Giro d'Italia. He was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both in 2007... |
Santiago Botero Santiago Botero Santiago Botero Echeverry is a Colombian former professional road bicycle racer. He was a pro from 1996 to 2010, during which time he raced in three editions of the Tour de France and four editions of the Vuelta a España... |
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| Women's Events | ||||||
| Women's road race |
Rasa Polikeviciute Rasa Polikeviciute Rasa Polikevičiūtė is a Lithuanian cycle racer. She was one of the first in a long line of Lithuanian cyclists who, together, established Lithuania as one of the powerhouses of women's cycle racing in the 1990s and beyond... |
2h59'15" | Edita Pučinskaitė Edita Pucinskaite Edita Pučinskaitė is a Lithuanian racing cyclist. For many years, she has been one of the top competitors in women's racing on the international level with a victory in the World Road Race Championships in 1999 and several very high finishes in major tours, World Championship competition and on... |
s.t. | Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli |
s.t. |
| Women's time trial |
Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli |
29'08" | Nicole Brändli Nicole Brändli Nicole Brändli is a professional cyclist from Switzerland. She's a three time winner of Giro d'Italia Femminile.-Palmarès:... |
s.t. | Teodora Ruano Teodora Ruano María Teodora Adoracion Ruano Sanchón is a retired female track and road racing cyclist from Spain. She represented her native country at three Summer Olympics: in 1992, 2000, and 2004... |
+ 44" |
| Men's Under-23 Events | ||||||
| Men's under-23 road race |
Yaroslav Popovych Yaroslav Popovych Yaroslav Popovych is a Ukrainian cyclist with the UCI ProTour team . He was born in Drohobych, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Under-23 road race champion in 2001, Popovych turned professional in 2002 with , where he performed particularly strongly in the Giro d'Italia, finishing third in 2003... |
3h36'28" | Giampaolo Caruso Giampaolo Caruso Giampaolo Caruso is an Italian professional road bicycle racer.Caruso was accused in the Operación Puerto doping case, but his case was soon dropped by the Spanish federation. The Italian Olympic Committee wanted him suspended for two years, but he was acquitted of involvement by the Court for... |
+ 17" | Ruslan Gryschenko |
+ 1'24" |
| Men's under-23 time trial |
Danny Pate Danny Pate Danny Pate is a professional bicycle racer who currently rides for and for 2012 will join . He was born on 23 March 1979 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is experienced and accomplished in road, cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing.... |
46'29" | Sebastian Lang Sebastian Lang Sebastian Lang is a German professional road bicycle racer and time trialist for UCI ProTour team . He rode on Team Gerolsteiner from 2002 until its demise in 2008, and in 2006 became Germany's national time trial champion.... |
+ 38" | James Lewis Perry James Lewis Perry James Lewis Perry , is a South African professional cyclist who rode for the UCI Professional Continental team Barloworld until the team's demise. In 2001 he won a bronze medal at the World Under 23 Time Trial Championship. He has been a professional since 2002... |
+ 39" |
| Men's Junior Events | ||||||
| Men's Junior Road Race |
Olexandr Kwatschuk |
2h58'43" | Niels Scheuneman Niels Scheuneman Niels Scheuneman is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer.-Biography:When Scheuneman was still a junior, won a silver and a bronze medal in the junior races of the 2001 UCI Road World Championships... |
+ 7" | Mathieu Perget Mathieu Perget Mathieu Perget is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team .- Palmarès :2005... |
s.t. |
| Men's Junior Time Trial |
Jurgen van den Broeck Jurgen Van Den Broeck Jurgen Van Den Broeck is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . He specializes in the time trial, having been Junior World Champion in time trialing... |
27'28" | Olexandr Kwatschuk |
s.t. | Niels Scheuneman Niels Scheuneman Niels Scheuneman is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer.-Biography:When Scheuneman was still a junior, won a silver and a bronze medal in the junior races of the 2001 UCI Road World Championships... |
+ 1" |
| Women's Junior Events | ||||||
| Women's Junior Road Race |
Nicole Cooke Nicole Cooke Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE is a Welsh professional road bicycle racer for the Mario Cipollini - Giordana Team team, and is the current Olympic road race champion.-Early life:... |
2h01'25" | Pleuni Mohlmann |
+ 17" | Maja Włoszczowska |
+ 29" |
| Women's Junior Time Trial |
Nicole Cooke Nicole Cooke Nicole Denise Cooke, MBE is a Welsh professional road bicycle racer for the Mario Cipollini - Giordana Team team, and is the current Olympic road race champion.-Early life:... |
18'45" | Natalia Bojarskaja |
+ 9" | Diana Elmentaite |
+ 10" |