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.

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:

Former events:

History

The first world championships took place in 1921, though the only event that was contested was the Men's Road Race for Amateurs.[1] 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.

Championships

Year Country Location Best Nation
1921  Denmark Copenhagen
1922  United Kingdom Liverpool  United Kingdom (3)
1923   Switzerland Zürich
1924  France Paris
1925  Netherlands Apeldoorn
1926  Italy Milan
1927  Germany Nürburgring
1928  Hungary Budapest
1929   Switzerland Zürich (2)
1930  Belgium Liège
1931  Denmark Copenhagen (2)
1932  Italy Rome
1933  France Montlhéry
1934  Germany Leipzig
1935  Belgium Floreffe
1936   Switzerland Berne
1937  Denmark Copenhagen (3)
1938  Netherlands Valkenburg
no race from 1939 to 1945 because of World War II
1946   Switzerland Zürich (3)
1947  France Reims
1948  Netherlands Valkenburg (2)
1949  Denmark Copenhagen (4)
1950  Belgium Moorslede
1951  Italy Varese
1952  Luxembourg Luxembourg
1953   Switzerland Lugano
1954  West Germany Solingen  Denmark (3)
1955  Italy Frascati
1956  Denmark Copenhagen (5)
1957  Belgium Waregem
1958  France Reims (2)
1959  Netherlands Zandvoort
1960  East Germany Karl-Marx-Stadt

Year Country City
1961   Switzerland Berne (2)
1962  Italy Salò di Garda
1963  Belgium Ronse
1964  France Sallanches
1965  Spain San Sebastián
1966  West Germany Nürburgring (2)
1967  Netherlands Heerlen
1968  Italy Imola
1969  BelgiumZolder
1970  United Kingdom Leicester
1971   Switzerland Mendrisio
1972  France Gap
1973  Spain Barcelona
1974  Canada Montreal
1975  Belgium Yvoir
1976  Italy Ostuni
1977  Venezuela San Cristóbal
1978  West Germany Nürburgring (3)
1979  Netherlands Valkenburg (3)
1980  France Sallanches (2)  Sweden (3)
1981  Czechoslovakia Prague  Soviet Union (5)
1982  United Kingdom Goodwood
1983   Switzerland Altenrhein   Switzerland (9)
1984  Spain Barcelona (2) Belgium (24)
1985  Italy Giavera del Montello
1986  United States Colorado Springs
1987  Austria Villach
1988  Belgium Ronse (2)
1989  France Chambéry
1990  Japan Utsunomiya
1991  Germany Stuttgart
1992  Spain Benidorm
1993  Norway Oslo
1994  Italy Agrigento

Year Country City
1995  Colombia Duitama
1996   Switzerland Lugano (2)
1997  Spain San Sebastián (2)  France (20)
1998  Netherlands Valkenburg (4)
1999  Italy Verona
2000  France Plouay  Poland (2)
2001  Portugal Lisbon
2002  Belgium Zolder (2) and Hasselt
2003  Canada Hamilton
2004  Italy Verona (2)
2005  Spain Madrid  Spain(4)
2006  Austria Salzburg  Germany
 United States(4)
2007  Germany Stuttgart (2)  Italy
 Netherlands(7)
2008  Italy Varese (2)
2009   Switzerland Mendrisio (2)  Italy (30)
2010  Australia Melbourne and Geelong  Germany (10)
2011  Denmark Copenhagen (6)  United Kingdom (5)
2012  Netherlands Valkenburg (5)
2013  Italy Florence
2014  Spain Ponferrada  Australia (3)
2015  United States Richmond  Netherlands (8)
2016  Qatar Doha
2017  Norway Bergen
2018  Austria Innsbruck

All-time medal table

Updated after 2015 Championships.

Medal table includes only medals achieved in elite (senior) events. Mixed nation team events such as the Team Time Trial from 2012 to 2015 are excluded.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Italy 50 45 40 135
2  Belgium 38 27 27 92
3  France 32 29 30 91
4  Netherlands 28 23 24 75
5   Switzerland 15 21 18 54
6  Germany 13 16 19 48
7  Great Britain 13 10 8 31
8  Soviet Union 12 16 16 44
9  United States 11 13 11 35
10  East Germany 10 2 4 16
11  Sweden 9 5 7 21
12  Spain 8 13 16 37
13  Poland 7 7 3 17
14  Denmark 5 11 8 24
15  Australia 4 9 3 16
16  West Germany 4 4 5 3
17  Russia 3 4 4 11
18  Lithuania 3 3 5 11
19  Norway 2 1 4 7
20  Belarus 2 0 1 3
21  Luxembourg 1 3 4 8
22  New Zealand 1 2 2 5
23  Ukraine 1 2 1 4
24  Ireland 1 1 3 5
25  Latvia 1 1 0 2
 Slovakia 1 1 0 2
27  Colombia 1 0 2 3
28  Portugal 1 0 0 1
29  Canada 0 3 2 5
30  Czechoslovakia 0 2 2 4
31  Austria 0 1 2 3
32  Hungary 0 1 1 2
33  Brazil 0 1 0 1
34  Kazakhstan 0 0 2 2
35  Czech Republic 0 0 1 1
 Slovenia 0 0 1 1
 Uruguay 0 0 1 1
Total 277 277 277 831

Countries

See also

References

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