UCI Road World Championships

History Of UCI Road World Championships

• The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships 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 as of 2012 Team Time Trials.
  
• 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 Nürburgring 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. A men's team time trial, contested by national teams, was introduced in 1962. Beginning in 1972, the team time trial was discontinued in Olympic years only. Individual time trials in all categories were added in 1994, which was also the last year for the original incarnation of the men's team time trial. In 2012, the men's team time trial was reinstated, and a women's team time trial added to the program; both are contested by trade teams.
  
• 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 sprinters 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.
  

Events:

All the world championship events, except team time trials from 2012, are ridden by national teams, not trade teams such as in most other major races. 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. It currently includes the following championships:

• Elite Men's road race
  
• Elite Men's time trial
  
• Men's team time trial (for trade teams)
  
• Under-23 Men's road race
  
• Under-23 Men's time trial
  
• Junior Men's road race
  
• Junior Men's time trial
  
• Elite Women's road race
  
• Elite Women's time trial
  
• Women's team time trial (for trade teams)
  
• Junior Women's road race
  
• Junior Women's time trial
  

Former events:

• Men's amateur road race
  
• Men's team time trial (for national teams)
  
• Women's team time trial (for national teams)
  

UCI Road World Championships Archieve

1921-Gunnar Sköld

1922-David Marsh (cyclist)

1923-Liberio Ferrario

1924-André Leducq

1925-Henri Hoevenaers

1926-Octave Dayen

1927

• Professional Road Race-Alfredo Binda
  
• Amateur Road Race-Jean Aerts
  

1928

• Professional Road Race-Georges Ronsse
  
• Amateur Road Race-Allegro Grandi
  

1929

• Professional Road Race-Georges Ronsse
  
• Amateur Road Race-Piero Bertolazzo
  

1930

• Professional Road Race-Alfredo Binda
  
• Amateur Road Race-Giuseppe Martano
  

1931

• Professional Road Race-Learco Guerra
  
• Amateur Road Race-Henry Hansen
  

1932

• Professional Road Race-Alfredo Binda
  
• Amateur Road Race-Giuseppe Martano
  

1933

• Professional Road Race-Georges Speicher
  
• Amateur Road Race-Paul Egli
  

1934

• Professional Road Race-Karel Kaers
  
• Amateur Road Race-Kees Pellenaars
  

1935

• Professional Road Race-Jean Aerts
  
• Amateur Road Race-Ivo Mancini
  

1936

• Professional Road Race-Antonin Magne
  
• Amateur Road Race-Edgar Buchwalder
  

1937

• Professional Road Race-Eloi Meulenberg
  
• Amateur Road Race-Adolfo Leoni
  

1938

• Professional Road Race-Marcel Kint
  
• Amateur Road Race-Hans Knecht
  

2007

Men's Events

• Men's road race-Paolo Bettini
  
• Men's time trial-Fabian Cancellara
  

Women's Events

• Women's road race-Marta Bastianelli
  
• Women's time trial-Hanka Kupfernagel
  
• Men's Under-23 Events
  
• Men's under-23 road race-Peter Velits
  
• Men's under-23 time trial-Lars Boom
  

2008

Men's Events

• Men's road race-Alessandro Ballan
  
• Men's time trial-Bert Grabsch
  

Women's Events

• Women's road race-Nicole Cooke
  
• Women's time trial-Amber Neben
  
• Men's Under-23 Events
  
• Men's under-23 road race-Fabio Duarte
  
• Men's under-23 time trial-Adriano Malori
  

2009

Men's Events

• Men's road race-Cadel Evans
  
• Men's time trial-Fabian Cancellara
  

Women's Events

• Women's road race-Tatiana Guderzo
  
• Women's time trial-Kristin Armstrong
  
• Men's Under-23 Events
  
• Men's under-23 road race-Romain Sicard
  
• Men's under-23 time trial-Jack Bobridge
  

2010

Men's Events

• Men's road race-Thor Hushovd
  
• Men's time trial-Fabian Cancellara
  

Women's Events

• Women's road race-Giorgia Bronzini
  
• Women's time trial-Emma Pooley
  
• Men's Under-23 Events
  
• Men's under-23 road race-Michael Matthews
  
• Men's under-23 time trial-Taylor Phinney
  

2013

Men's Events

• Men's road race-Rui Costa
  
• Men's time trial-Tony Martin
  
• Men's team time trial-Sylvain Chavanel ,Michal Kwiatkowski ,Tony Martin ,Niki Terpstra ,Kristof Vandewalle ,Slovakia Peter Velits 
  

Women's Events

• Women's road race-Marianne Vos
  
• Women's time trial-Ellen van Dijk
  
• Women's team time trial- Lisa Brennauer ,Katie Colclough ,Carmen Small ,Evelyn Stevens ,Ellen van Dijk ,Trixi Worrack 
  

2014

Men's Events

• Men's road race- Michal Kwiatkowski 
  
• Men's time trial-Bradley Wiggins
  
• Men's team time trial- Rohan Dennis,Silvan Dillier ,Daniel Oss ,Manuel Quinziato ,Tejay van Garderen ,Peter Velits 
  

Women's Events

• Women's road race- Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
  
• Women's time trial-Lisa Brennauer
  
• Women's team time trial- Chantal Blaak ,Lisa Brennauer ,Karol-Ann Canuel ,Carmen Small ,Evelyn Stevens ,Trixi Worrack