UCI Road World Championships
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The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championship
s for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale
(UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial
, and currently includes the following championships:
All the world championship events are ridden by national teams, not trade teams such as in the Tour de France
. The winner of each category is entitled to wear the rainbow jersey
in races of that category (either mass start or time trial) until the next championships.
in Germany
where Italian
Alfredo Binda
won the professional men's race and Belgian
Jean Aerts
won the men's amateur race. The women's road race was introduced in 1958. The time trials in all categories were added in 1994.
Until 1995, there were separate races for male professional and amateur riders. In 1996, the amateur category was replaced with a category for men under-23 years old with the professional category becoming an open (later elite) category.
Since 1995, the race has been held towards the end of the European season in late September, usually following the Vuelta a España
. Before that, the event had always been a summer race, held in late August or the first week of September (with the exception of 1970, when it was a mid-season summer event).
The world championships are located in a different city or region every year. The event can be held over a relatively flat course which favors cycling sprinter
s or a hilly course which favors a climbing specialist or all-round. In each case the course is usually held on a circuit of which the riders complete multiple laps.
The world championship and two of the three Grand Tours (namely the Giro d'Italia
and the Tour de France
) form the Triple Crown of Cycling
.
World championship
A world championship is the top achievement for any sport or contest. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best nation, team, individual in the world in a particular field. Certain sports do not have a world championship, instead...
s for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale
Union Cycliste Internationale
Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland....
(UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial
Individual time trial
An individual time trial is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock . There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials...
, and currently includes the following championships:
- Junior Women road race
- Junior Women time trial
- Junior Men time trialUCI Road World Championships - Junior Men's Time TrialUCI Juniors Road World Championships – Men's time trial is the annual world championship for road bicycle racing in the discipline of time trial, organised by the world governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale. The event was first run in 1994....
- Junior Men road race
- Elite Men's road race
- Elite Women's road race
- Under 23 Men's road race
- Elite Men's time trial
- Elite Women's time trial
- Under 23 Men's time trial
All the world championship events are ridden by national teams, not trade teams such as in the Tour de France
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
. The winner of each category is entitled to wear the rainbow jersey
Rainbow jersey
The Rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a bicycle racing discipline. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue; the same colours...
in races of that category (either mass start or time trial) until the next championships.
History
The first world championships took place in 1921, though the only event that was contested was the Men's Road Race for Amateurs. The first professional world championship took place in July 1927 at the NürburgringNürburgring
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...
in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
where Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
Alfredo Binda
Alfredo Binda
Alfredo Binda was an Italian cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s, later trainer of Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali. Binda was the first multiple Giro d'Italia champion, securing five victories between 1925 and 1933 that redefined the way stage races were ridden...
won the professional men's race and Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
Jean Aerts
Jean Aerts
Jean Aerts was a Belgian road bicycle racer who specialized as a sprinter. Aerts became the first man to win both the world amateur and professional road race championships...
won the men's amateur race. The women's road race was introduced in 1958. The time trials in all categories were added in 1994.
Until 1995, there were separate races for male professional and amateur riders. In 1996, the amateur category was replaced with a category for men under-23 years old with the professional category becoming an open (later elite) category.
Since 1995, the race has been held towards the end of the European season in late September, usually following the Vuelta a España
Vuelta a España
The Vuelta a España is a three-week road bicycle racing stage race that is one of the three "Grand Tours" of Europe and part of the UCI World Ranking calendar. The race lasts three weeks and attracts cyclists from around the world. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages...
. Before that, the event had always been a summer race, held in late August or the first week of September (with the exception of 1970, when it was a mid-season summer event).
The world championships are located in a different city or region every year. The event can be held over a relatively flat course which favors cycling sprinter
Cycling sprinter
A cycling sprinter is a road bicycle racer or track racer who can finish a race very explosively by accelerating quickly to a high speed, often using the slipstream of another cyclist or group of cyclists tactically to conserve energy.-The road sprinter:...
s or a hilly course which favors a climbing specialist or all-round. In each case the course is usually held on a circuit of which the riders complete multiple laps.
The world championship and two of the three Grand Tours (namely the Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...
and the Tour de France
Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race held in France and nearby countries. First staged in 1903, the race covers more than and lasts three weeks. As the best known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours", the Tour de France attracts riders and teams from around the world. The...
) form the Triple Crown of Cycling
Triple Crown of Cycling
The Triple Crown of Cycling is considered the greatest achievement in cycling. Although more definitions for the term are used, mostly it means winning the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Road World Cycling Championship in one year, although occasionally a broader definition where one...
.
Championships
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| 1927 1927 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Nürburgring Nürburgring The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about... |
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| 1928 1928 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
 Hungary |
Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter... |
| 1929 1929 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Zürich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... |
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| 1930 1930 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Liège | |
| 1931 1931 UCI Road World Championships The 1931 UCI Road World Championships took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unusually, the race was not run as a traditional road race, but rather as an individual time-trial.- Events Summary :... |
Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| 1932 1932 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
 Italy |
Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... |
| 1933 1933 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Montlhéry Montlhéry Montlhéry is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located from Paris.Inhabitants of Montlhéry are known as Montlhériens.-History:... |
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| 1934 1934 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
 Germany |
Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing... |
| 1935 1935 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Floreffe Floreffe Floreffe is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 7,405 inhabitants. The total area is 38.89 km², giving a population density of 190 inhabitants per km².... |
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| 1936 1936 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Berne Berne The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000... |
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| 1937 1937 UCI Road World Championships The 1937 UCI Road World Championships took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Only eight riders finished the Professional Road Race.- Events Summary :... |
Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| 1938 1938 UCI Road World Championships The 1938 UCI Road World Championships took place in Valkenburg, the Netherlands.- Events Summary :... |
Valkenburg 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... |
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| no race from 1939 to 1945 because of World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... |
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| 1946 1946 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Zürich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... |
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| 1947 1947 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Reims Reims Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire.... |
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| 1948 1948 UCI Road World Championships The 1948 UCI Road World Championships took place in Valkenburg, the Netherlands.- Events Summary :... |
Valkenburg 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... |
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| 1949 1949 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| 1950 1950 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Moorslede Moorslede Moorslede is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Dadizele and Moorslede proper. On 1 January 2006, Moorslede had a total population of 10,618... |
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| 1951 1951 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Varese Varese Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :... |
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| 1952 1952 UCI Road World Championships The 1952 UCI Road World Championships took place in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.- Events Summary :... |
Luxembourg Luxembourg (city) The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg... |
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| 1953 1953 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Lugano Lugano Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy... |
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| 1954 1954 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Solingen Solingen Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and with a 2009 population of 161,366 is the second largest city in the Bergisches Land... |
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| 1955 1955 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Frascati Frascati Frascati is a town and comune in the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific... |
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| 1956 1956 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| 1957 1957 UCI Road World Championships - Events Summary :... |
Waregem Waregem Waregem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality lies in the valley of the Leie River, between Kortrijk and Ghent. It is part of the arrondissement of Kortrijk and comprises the towns of Beveren, Desselgem, Sint-Eloois-Vijve and Waregem proper. On... |
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| 1958 1958 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Reims Reims Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire.... |
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| 1959 1959 UCI Road World Championships The 1959 UCI Road World Championships took place on 16 August 1959 in Zandvoort, Netherlands.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Zandvoort Zandvoort Zandvoort is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.Zandvoort is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach, bordered by coastal dunes... |
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| 1960 1960 UCI Road World Championships The 1960 UCI Road World Championships took place on 14 August 1960 in Sachsenring for the two men's races, and in Leipzig for the women's race, in East Germany.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Karl-Marx-Stadt | |
| Year | Country | City |
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| 1961 1961 UCI Road World Championships The 1961 UCI Road World Championships took place on 3 September 1961 in Bern, Switzerland.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Berne Berne The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000... |
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| 1962 1962 UCI Road World Championships The 1962 UCI Road World Championships took place on 2 September 1962 in Salò, Italy. The team time trial made their debut.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Salò di Garda | |
| 1963 1963 UCI Road World Championships The 1963 UCI Road World Championships took place on 11 August 1963 in Renaix, Belgium.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Ronse Ronse Ronse is a Belgian city and a municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality only comprises the city of Ronse proper.- Early settlements to 14th century :... |
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| 1964 1964 UCI Road World Championships The 1964 UCI Road World Championships took place on 6 September 1964 in Sallanches, France.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Sallanches Sallanches Sallanches is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-Media:Sallanches is mentioned in American author Willa Cather's 1935 novel Lucy Gayheart.-External links:*... |
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| 1965 1965 UCI Road World Championships The 1965 UCI Road World Championships took place on 5 September 1965 in Lasarte-Oria in Spain.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
 Spain |
San Sebastián San Sebastián Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its... |
| 1966 1966 UCI Road World Championships The 1966 UCI Road World Championships took place on 28 August 1966 at the Nürburgring, Germany.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Nürburgring Nürburgring The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about... |
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| 1967 1967 UCI Road World Championships The 1967 UCI Road World Championships took place on 3 September 1967 in Heerlen, Netherlands.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Heerlen Heerlen Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen... |
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| 1968 1968 UCI Road World Championships The 1968 UCI Road World Championships took place on 1 September 1968 in Imola, Italy.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Imola Imola thumb|250px|The Cathedral of Imola.Imola is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy... |
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| 1969 1969 UCI Road World Championships The 1969 UCI Road World Championships took place on 10 August 1969 in Zolder, Belgium.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Zolder Zolder The Circuit Zolder, also known as Circuit Terlaemen, is an undulating motorsport race track in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.Built in 1963, Zolder hosted the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix on 10 separate occasions in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1980 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix. The F1 circus... |
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| 1970 1970 UCI Road World Championships The 1970 UCI Road World Championships took place on 15 August 1970 in Leicester, United Kingdom.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Leicester Leicester Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest... |
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| 1971 1971 UCI Road World Championships The 1971 UCI Road World Championships took place on 4 September 1971 in Mendrisio, Switzerland.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Mendrisio Mendrisio Mendrisio is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian speaking Switzerland .... |
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| 1972 1972 UCI Road World Championships The 1972 UCI Road World Championships took place on the 6 August 1972 in Gap, France. Only two professional races took place due to the Munich Olympics.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Gap Gap, Hautes-Alpes Gap is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Hautes-Alpes department.-Geography:An Alpine crossroads at the intersection of D994 and Route nationale 85 the Route Napoléon, Gap lies above sea level along the right bank of the Luye River... |
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| 1973 1973 UCI Road World Championships The 1973 UCI Road World Championships took place on 2 September 1973 in Montjuich, Spain.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Spain |
Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... |
| 1974 1974 UCI Road World Championships The 1974 UCI Road World Championships took place on 25 August 1974 in Montreal, Canada.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... |
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| 1975 | Yvoir Yvoir Yvoir is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 8,450 inhabitants. The total area is 56.84 km², making it a population density of 149 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the villages Dorinne, Durnal, Evrehailles,... |
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| 1976 1976 UCI Road World Championships The 1976 UCI Road World Championships took place on 5 September 1976 in Ostuni, Italy. Only two races took place due to the Montreal Olympics.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Ostuni Ostuni Ostuni is a city and comune in the province of Brindisi , with a population of about 32,000 located about 8 km from the coast. Its main economic activities include tourism, attracted by its nearby pristine beaches, as well as a vibrant olive and grape agribusiness.- History :The region around... |
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| 1977 1977 UCI Road World Championships The 1977 UCI Road World Championships took place on 27 August 1977 in San Cristóbal, Venezuela.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
San Cristóbal San Cristóbal, Táchira San Cristóbal is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Táchira. It is located in a mountainous region of Western Venezuela. The city is situated 818 m/2,625 ft above sea level in the northern Andes overlooking the Torbes River, 56 km/35 mi from the Colombian border. San... |
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| 1978 1978 UCI Road World Championships The 1978 UCI Road World Championships took place on 27 August 1978 in Nürburg, West Germany.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Nürburgring Nürburgring The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about... |
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| 1979 1979 UCI Road World Championships The 1979 UCI Road World Championships took place on 26 August 1979 in Valkenburg, the Netherlands.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Valkenburg 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... |
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| 1980 1980 UCI Road World Championships The 1980 UCI Road World Championships took place on 30 August 1980 in Sallanches, France. Only two races took place because of the Moscow Olympics.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Sallanches Sallanches Sallanches is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-Media:Sallanches is mentioned in American author Willa Cather's 1935 novel Lucy Gayheart.-External links:*... |
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| 1981 1981 UCI Road World Championships The 1981 UCI Road World Championships took place on 30 August 1981 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.- Results :- Medal table :- List of professional riders :NB : List of teams by number of riders then alphabetically.... |
Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million... |
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| 1982 1982 UCI Road World Championships The 1982 UCI Road World Championships took place on 5 September 1982 in Goodwood, Great Britain.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Goodwood Goodwood House Goodwood House is a country house in West Sussex in southern England. It is the seat of the Dukes of Richmond. Several architects have contributed to the design of the house, including James Wyatt. It was the intention to build the house to a unique octagonal layout, but only three of the eight... |
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| 1983 1983 UCI Road World Championships The 1983 UCI Road World Championships took place on 4 September 1983 in Altenrhein, Switzerland.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Altenrhein Thal, Switzerland Thal is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Rorschach in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.-History:Thal is first mentioned in 1163 as curtis tale.... |
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| 1984 1984 UCI Road World Championships The 1984 UCI Road World Championships took place on 1 September 1984 in Barcelona, Spain. Only one race took place due to the Los Angeles Olympic Games.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of... |
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| 1985 1985 UCI Road World Championships The 1985 UCI Road World Championships took place on 1 September 1985 in Giavera del Montello, Italy.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
Giavera del Montello Giavera del Montello Giavera del Montello is a comune in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 40 km northwest of Venice and about 15 km northwest of Treviso.... |
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| 1986 1986 UCI Road World Championships The 1986 UCI Road World Championships took place on 6 September 1986 in Colorado Springs, USA.- Results :- Medal table :- External links :* *... |
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| 1987 1987 UCI Road World Championships The 1987 UCI Road World Championships took place in Villach, Austria. Stephen Roche completed the rare Triple Crown of Cycling, meaning he won the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, before winning the Men's Road Race. Before this was only achieved by Eddy Merckx in 1974.- Events summary :... |
Villach Villach Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:... |
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| 1988 1988 UCI Road World Championships The 1988 UCI Road World Championships took place in Ronse, Belgium. Unlike the previous year, no women's road race, amateur men's road race or men's team time trial were held in these world championships. The men's road race was decided in a sprint involving three riders, Maurizio Fondriest, Claude... |
Ronse Ronse Ronse is a Belgian city and a municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality only comprises the city of Ronse proper.- Early settlements to 14th century :... |
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| 1989 1989 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Chambéry Chambéry Chambéry is a city in the department of Savoie, located in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France.It is the capital of the department and has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made the city his seat of power.-Geography:Chambéry... |
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| 1990 1990 UCI Road World Championships The 1990 UCI Road World Championships took place in Utsunomiya, Japan, from August 31 to September 2, 1990.- Events summary :-References:*... |
Utsunomiya | |
| 1991 1991 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... |
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| 1992 1992 UCI Road World Championships The 1992 UCI Road World Championships took place in Benidorm, Spain. As this was an Olympic year all the Olympic events served as World Championships, leaving just the Professional road race and the Women's Team Time Trial to be contested.- Events summary :... |
Benidorm Benidorm Benidorm is a coastal town and municipality located in the comarca of Marina Baixa, in the province of Alicante, Valencian community, Spain, by the Western Mediterranean.... |
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| 1993 1993 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Oslo Oslo Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King... |
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| 1994 1994 UCI Road World Championships - Events summary :... |
Agrigento Agrigento Agrigento , is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, and capital of the province of Agrigento. It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas , one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden... |
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| 1995 1995 UCI Road World Championships The 1995 UCI Road World Championships took place in Duitama, Colombia from October 4 to October 8, 1995. It was the last world championship that had an amateur road race: in 1996 this was replaced by an event for cyclists under 23 years.- Events summary :... |
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| 1996 1996 UCI Road World Championships The 1996 UCI Road World Championships took place in Lugano, Switzerland, between October 9 and October 13, 1996. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.- Events summary :... |
Lugano Lugano Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy... |
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| 1997 1997 UCI Road World Championships The 1997 UCI Road World Championships took place in San Sebastián, Spain, between October 7 and October 12, 1997. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.- Events summary :... |
San Sebastián San Sebastián Donostia-San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the north of Spain, in the coast of the Bay of Biscay and 20 km away from the French border. The city is the capital of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. The municipality’s population is 186,122 , and its... |
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| 1998 1998 UCI Road World Championships 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.- Summary :... |
Valkenburg 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... |
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| 1999 1999 UCI Road World Championships The 1999 UCI Road World Championships took place in Treviso and Verona, Italy, between October 3 and October 10, 1999. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.- Events summary :... |
Verona Verona Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona... |
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| 2000 2000 UCI Road World Championships The 2000 UCI Road World Championships took place in Plouay, France, between October 9 and October 15, 2000. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.- Events summary :- External links :*... |
Plouay Plouay Plouay is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.Plouay hosts the GP Ouest-France and the GP de Plouay, an annual cycling race . It was also the location of the World Championships of Cycling in 2000... |
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| 2001 2001 UCI Road World Championships 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.- Events summary :- External links :... |
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... |
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| 2002 2002 UCI Road World Championships The 2002 UCI Road World Championships took place in the region of Limburg, Belgium, between October 8 and October 13, 2002. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.- Events summary :... |
Zolder Heusden-Zolder Heusden-Zolder is a municipality located in the Belgian province of province of Limburg near Hasselt. On 1 January 2006 Heusden-Zolder had a total population of 30,769... and Hasselt Hasselt Hasselt is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital of the Flemish province of Limburg... |
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| 2003 2003 UCI Road World Championships The 2003 UCI Road World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, between October 7 and October 12, 2003. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.... |
Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe... |
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| 2004 2004 UCI Road World Championships The 2004 UCI Road World Championships took place in Verona, Italy, between September 27 and October 3, 2004. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, junior men and junior women.- Events summary :... |
Verona Verona Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona... |
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| 2005 2005 UCI Road World Championships The 2005 UCI Road World Championships took place in Madrid, Spain, between September 19 and September 25, 2005. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.The Men's road race saw Belgian cyclist Tom Boonen winning.... |
Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... |
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| 2006 2006 UCI Road World Championships The 2006 UCI Road World Championships took place in Salzburg, Austria, between September 19 and September 24, 2006. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.... |
Salzburg Salzburg -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for... |
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| 2007 2007 UCI Road World Championships The 2007 UCI Road World Championships took place in Stuttgart, Germany, between September 25 and September 30, 2007. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23... |
Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... |
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| 2008 2008 UCI Road World Championships The 2008 UCI Road World Championships took place in Varese, Italy, between September 23 and September 28, 2008. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.-Medals table:-Events summary:-External links:**... |
Varese Varese Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :... |
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| 2009 2009 UCI Road World Championships The 2009 UCI Road World Championships were held in Mendrisio, Switzerland, between September 23 and September 27, 2009. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23.-Medals table:-Individual time trials:... |
Mendrisio Mendrisio Mendrisio is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian speaking Switzerland .... |
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| 2010 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... |
Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater... and Geelong |
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| 2011 2011 UCI Road World Championships The 2011 UCI Road World Championships took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, over 19–25 September 2011. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23, and for the first time since 2004 the junior men and junior women competed at the same event as the elite riders. It... |
Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| 2012 2012 UCI Road World Championships The 2012 UCI Road World Championships will take place in Limburg, the Netherlands, between 15 and 23 September 2012. The event consists of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23. It will be the 79th Road World Championships. Castelfidardo near Loreto in Italy was also a... |
Limburg Limburg (Netherlands) Limburg is the southernmost of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. It is located in the southeastern part of the country and bordered by the province of Gelderland to the north, Germany to the east, Belgium to the south and part of the west, andthe Dutch province of North Brabant partly to... |
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| 2013 | Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... |
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| 2014 2014 UCI Road World Championships The 2014 UCI Road World Championships will take place in Ponferrada, Spain, from the 13th to the 21th September 2014. The event consists of a road race and a time trial for men, women, men under 23 and the junior men and junior women. It will be the 81th Road World Championships and the seventh... |
Ponferrada Ponferrada Ponferrada is a city in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. It lies on the Sil River, a tributary of the river Miño, in the El Bierzo valley, completely surrounded by mountains. It is the last major town along the French route of the Way of St. James before it reaches its destination... |
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| 2015 2015 UCI Road World Championships The 2015 UCI Road World Championships will take place in Richmond, Virginia. The event consists of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 23... |
Richmond Richmond, Virginia Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area... |