The Women's time trial of the 2010 UCI Road World Championships

2010 UCI Road World Championships

The 2010 UCI Road World Championships took place in Geelong and Melbourne, Australia, over 5 days from 29 September to 3 October 2010. It was the 77th UCI Road World Championships and the first time that Australia had held the event...

 cycling event took place on 29 September in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Australia

Australia

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.

Emma Pooley

Emma Pooley

Emma Jane Pooley is an English professional cyclist and Olympic silver medallist currently riding for . Pooley was the 2010 World Time Trial Champion and is a former British Road Race and Time Trial Champion.-Biography:...

 became Great Britain

Great Britain

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's first gold medal winner in the discipline, recording a time 15 seconds quicker than Germany

Germany

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's Judith Arndt

Judith Arndt

Judith Arndt is a German professional cyclist for the T-Mobile Women cycling team. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 m pursuit event at the 1996 Summer Olympics when she was 20...

 – finishing second for the third time – with New Zealand

New Zealand

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's Linda Villumsen

Linda Villumsen

Linda Melanie Villumsen Serup is a Danish-born road racing cyclist. She finished 5th in the Women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics and finished third in Women's Time Trial at the 2009 World Championships in Mendriso....

finishing marginally behind Arndt in third, taking her second consecutive third place in the time trial.

Final classification

Rank	Rider	Time
1		32' 48.44"
2		+ 15.17"
3		+ 15.80"
4		+ 37.66"
5		+ 43.94"
6		+ 1' 00.08"
7		+ 1' 05.91"
8		+ 1' 13.18"
9		+ 1' 22.20"
10		+ 1' 25.55"
11		+ 1' 33.88"
12		+ 1' 41.15"
13		+ 1' 50.79"
14		+ 1' 53.95"
15		+ 1' 54.81"
16		+ 2' 05.39"
17		+ 2' 16.26"
18		+ 2' 19.31"
19		+ 2' 23.78"
20		+ 2' 29.85"
21		+ 2' 59.75"
22		+ 3' 00.98"
23		+ 3' 01.50"
24		+ 3' 17.65"
25		+ 3' 23.46"
26		+ 3' 38.37"
27		+ 4' 07.49"
28		+ 4' 23.65"
29		+ 4' 27.95"
30		+ 5' 12.53"
31		+ 5' 25.97"
32		+ 5' 40.63"
33		+ 5' 57.56"
34		+ 5' 58.22"
35		+ 6' 45.81"
36		+ 6' 52.90"
37		+ 7' 24.47"
		DSQ

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