Moser, Hinault, LeMond 𓂃and Bugno plus peloton's current stars
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2001 Worlds: Don't ▨worry Paolo Bettin𒁏i...your chance will come to win rainbow stripes(Image credit: Sirotti)
2006 Worlds: Michael Boogerd (Netherlands) and Fre🉐d Rodriguez (USA) in act🌌ion in Salzburg, Austria(Image credit: AFP)
1984 ওWorlds: Italy's team car in action during the men's ro♏ad race(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: The pro꧑ men's peloton stretched out in Ba🌌rcelona, Spain(Image credit: Sirotti)
♐1983 Worlds: Phil Anderso൩n (Australia) forces the pace in Altenrhein, Switzerland(Image credit: Sirotti)
1983 Worlds: Moreno Argentin (Italy), Gilbert Glauss (Switzerland) and Francesco Moser (Italy) roll along in th❀e pro road race in Altenrhein, Swit❀zerland(Image credit: Sirotti)
1983 Worlds: Ireland's Sean Kelly on t♋he front of the 💝peloton in a race eventually won by Greg LeMond (USA)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1982 Worlds: It would be two more years before Claudeဣ Criquielion (Belgium) would win a world championship. Here he's in action in Goodwood, England where Giuseppe Saronni (Italy) would win the only world title of his career(Image credit: Sirotti)
1968 Worlds: Vittori Adorni (Italy), the 1965 Giro champion, attacked with 93km to go and won the rainbow jersey bওy an unfathoma🐼ble 10 minutes on a car circuit in Imola, Italy.(Image credit: Sirotti)
1968 Worlds: Cycling legends Eddy Merck💦x (Belgium) and Felice Gimondi (Italy) in a🏅ction in Imola, Italy(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 🏅Worlds: Dag Otto Lauritze♓n (Norway) leads defending champion Greg LeMond (USA)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Defendꦬi𓆏ng champion Greg LeMond (USA) on the wheel of Belgium's Rudy Dhaenens(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Phil Anderson (Australia) front and center, flanked by Matt Eaton (USA). Eventual br🎃onze medalist Steve Bauer (Canada) and defending champion Greg LeMond (USA) in background(Image credit: Sirotti)
198💙4 Worlds: Italy's Moreno Argentin in action. From 1985 through 1987 he would complete the cycle of gold, silver and br🎶onze at the world championships(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Steve Bauer (Canada) alongside Italy's Silvano Contini and France🌳sco Moser(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Steve Bauer (Canada) had quite a year in 1984 by winning silver at the Olympic road race in Los Angeles then turning pro one month la🦄ter to take bronze at Worlds in Barcelona, Spain - his first professional road race(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: USA teammates Jonathan Boyဣer and John Eustice lead Bernard HInault (France)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds🌳: Franceꦍsco Moser (Italy) in action in Barcelona, Spain(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Claudio Cort෴i (Italy) en route to a silver medal in Barcelona, Spain(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Claude Criquielion (Belgium) would win gold i👍n Barcelona, Spain(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Defending champion Greg LeMond 🃏(USA) previews the Barcelona, Spain circuit with teammates including Doug Shapiro, left, and Matt Eaton, left of LeMond.(Image credit: Sirotti)
1984 Worlds: Powerhouse Italian Moreno Argentin, left, pre-rides the c🍌ircuit in Barcelona, Spain(Image credit: Sirotti)
1993 Worlds: 21-year-old Lance Armstrong (US✨A) became one of the youngest pro road race word champions in Oslo, Norway. He's joined on the podium by Miguel Indurain (Spain) and Olaf Ludwig (German🅘y)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worlds: 1983 world champion Greg LeMond would add a second pro rainbow jersey to his collec🐲tion later in the day in Chambéry, France to go alongꦇ with his stunning Tour de France victory earlier that summer(Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worlds: The pro men's peloton lines up in Chambéry, France for the 🦩world championship road race(Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worlds: Franco Ballerini (Italy) sets tempo in the pr🦋o men's championship raꩵce in Chambéry, France(Image credit: Sirotti)
1988 Worlds: Who would have gue🙈ssed that Maurizio Fondriest (Italy) would be crඣowned world champion several hours later in Ronse, Belgium?(Image credit: Sirotti)
1987 Worlds: Pedro Delgado (Spain) awaits the start of the pro men's road race in Villach, Austria. Stephen Roche (Irelanౠd) would win the rainbow jersey to complete a legendary Triple Crown that year(Image credit: Sirotti)
2003 Worlds: Alejandro Valverde completes a 1-2 f﷽inish for Spain by winning the sprint for second ahead of Peter Van Petegem (Belgium) moments after comp♉atriot Igor Astarloa soloed to victory in Hamilton, Ontario.(Image credit: Sirotti)
2004 Worlds: Luca Paolini (Italy) en route to a bronze medal in Verona, Italy. The 2013🐠 Worlds in Florence will be the final world championship for the Italian.(Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worlds: One of the all-time gr🐻eat world championships𓄧 saw Greg LeMond (USA) win his second pro world title ahead of Dmitri Konyshev (Russia) and Sean Kelly (Ireland) in the rain in Chambéry, France(Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worlds: Fred Mengoni and Andyඣ Hampsten (USA𓆏) prior to the start of the men's pro race in Chambéry, France(Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worl❀ds: One of the day's protagonists, La⛦urent Fignon (France), rolls to the start in Chambéry, France (Image credit: Sirotti)
1989 Worlds:✱ Claudio Chiapucci (Italy) awaits the start in Chambéꦯ;ry, France(Image credit: Sirotti)
1992 Worlds: Defending ꧋champion Gianni Bugno (Italy) awaits the start along with 1987 champion Stephen Roche (It🌠aly) and Claudio Chiapucci (Italy)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1992 Worlds: The pro men's podium included (L-R) Laurent Jalabert (France), Gianni Bug🦩no (Italy) and Dmitri Konyshev (Russia)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1992 Worlds:🐷 Gia🍸nni Bugno (Italy) makes his way to the podium after winning his second straight world championship in Benidorm, Spain(Image credit: Sirotti)
1994 Worlds: Luc Leblance (France) soloed to victory in S𝔍icily in ♉the city of Agrigento(Image credit: Sirotti)
1995 Worlds: Th꧅e world championships moved later in the season for the first time and the road race podium in Duitama, Colombia consisted of (L-R) Miguel Indurain (Spain), Abraham Olano (Spain) and Marco Pantani (ꦅItaly)(Image credit: Sirotti)
1998 Worlds: Osca𝐆r Camenzind (Switzerlands) soloed to victory on a cold, wet day in the Netheꦦrlands(Image credit: Sirotti)
2002 Worlds: Mario Cipollini (Italy) won his world title in Zolder, Belgium while teammates ce𝓀lebrate in the background(Image credit: Sirotti)
2004 Worlds: Oscar Freire (Sp🦹ain)💮 is now a three-time world champion(Image credit: AFP)
200♚4 Worlds: He did it again...Oscar Freire (Spain) wins the rainbow jersey for th🗹e third time in his career(Image credit: AFP)
2004 Worlds: Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic) celebrates victory in the junior men's world c🤡hampionship road race in Verona, Italy(Image credit: AFP)
2004 ⛦Worlds: Alexandre Vinokourov leads the Kazakhstan team on a tra🍃ining ride in Vernon, Italy(Image credit: AFP)
2004 Worlds: The junior men's time trial podium had some stars of the future (L-R) Thomas Dekker (Netherlands), Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia) and Vinzenzo🌟 Nibali (Italy)(Image credit: AFP)
2002 Worlds: My kingdom for a fuꦿnctioning front wheel. Defending champion Oscar Freire (Spain) had⛦ a mechanical inside the final two kilometres and was unable to contest the sprint finale.(Image credit: AFP)
2002 Worlds: ⛄The elite men's p🐻odium (L-R) of Robbie McEwen (Australia), Mario Cipollini (Italy) and Erik Zabel (Germany)(Image credit: AFP)
2002 Worlds: Was there any doubt that Mario Cipollini (Italy) would prevail on the very sprinter-friendly parcours in Zolder, Belg🔴ium?(Image credit: AFP)
2002 Worlds: The one-and-only Mario Cipollini puts in some pre-race training time at Zolder,♔ Belgium resplendent in the one-and-only kit of his trade team Acqua & Sapone(Image credit: AFP)
2001 Worlds: The thrill ඣo♚f victory for Oscar Freire (Spain) and the agony of defeat for silver medalist Paolo Bettini (Italy)(Image credit: AFP)
2001 Worlds: The elite m🌱en's♕ peloton on the start line in Lisbon, Portugal(Image credit: AFP)
2001 Worlds: France's 𝓰Laurent Brochard is ready to rock in Lisbon, Portugal(Image credit: AFP)
2001 Worlds: Jan Ullrich (German) 🔥awaits the start of the men's road race in Lisbon, Portugal(Image credit: AFP)
2000 Worlds: Elite men's podium (L-R) of Zbigni🌸ew Spruch (Poland), Romans Vainsteins (Latvia) and Oscar Freire (Spain)(Image credit: AFP)
2000 Worlds: Romans Vainsteins (Latvia) wins the 🍬world title ahead of Zbigniew Spruch (Poland) and Oscar Freire (Spain)(Image credit: AFP)
2000 Worlds: Christophe Moreau (France) on the attack durin𒊎g the 🎃Plouay, France-hosted world championship(Image credit: AFP)
1998 Worlds: Eventual world 🍸champion Oscar Camenzind (Switzerland) at the head of an elite selection containing Michael Boogerd, Lance Armstrong, Peter Van Petegem and Michele Bartoli(Image credit: AFP)
2005 Worlds: Erik Zabel (Germany) and Alessandro Petacchi (Italy) in Madrid, Spain for🤡 the world championships(Image credit: AFP)
2005 Worlds: Juan Antonio Flecha (Spain) 🀅snaps a photo during a training session on the road circuit in Madr🌱id, Spain(Image credit: AFP)
2006 Worlds: If you can't finish on the podium you can at least wow them with style as Brazil's Luciano Pagliarini displays during the men's raꦇce in Salzburg, Austria(Image credit: AFP)
2006 Worlds: Alejandro Valverde (Spain) nudges into the Paolo Betti♛ni part🦩y to congratulate the new world champion(Image credit: AFP)
2006 Worlds: Elite men's 𓆉podium of (L-R) Alejandro Valverde (Spain), Paolo Bettini (Italy) and Erik Zabel (Germany)(Image credit: AFP)
2006 Worlds:🌼 You think Paolo Bettini (Italy) is pleased with his world championship victory?(Image credit: AFP)
2006 Worlds: Gerald Ciolek (Germanಌy) signalled what was to come with a victory in the U23 ro🎀ad race in Salzburg, Austria(Image credit: AFP)
2006 Worlds: How sweet it is as Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland) wins the first time trial world championship of his career in Salzburg, ༒Austria(Image credit: AFP)
2007 Wo🍎rlds: A none-too-subtle Paolo Bettini (Italy) takes aim at his critics as he wins his second straight road world championship in 𒁃Stuttgart, Germany(Image credit: AFP)
2007 Worlds: Paolo Bettini (Italy) wins the world championship in Stuttgart, Germany, for back-to-ba☂ck world ꦿtitles(Image credit: AFP)
2007 Worlds: Fans express their displeasu♏re with doping while the peloton rolls alo𝓰ng in Stuttgart, Germany(Image credit: AFP)
2007 Wor♛ꦑlds: Peter Velits (Slovakia) won the U23 men's road race while in his wake Blel Kadri (France) and Martin Kohler (Switzerland) crash heavily against the barriers(Image credit: AFP)
2003 Worlds: Igor Astarloa (Spain) soloed to the men🧜's world title♒ in Canada(Image credit: AFP)
2003 Worlds: Elite men's podium (L-R) of Alejanꦜdro Valverde ꧒(Spain), Igor Astarloa (Spain) and Peter Van Petegem (Belgium)(Image credit: AFP)
1997 Worlds: Alex ﷽Zulle and his Swiss teammates preview the parcours in San Sebastian, Spain(Image credit: AFP)
2005 Worl🔴ds: Elite men's podium (L-R) Alejandro Valverde (Spain), Tom Booneꩵn (Belgium) and Anthony Geslin (France)(Image credit: AFP)
2005 Wor📖lds: Tom Boonen (Belgium) sprints to the ♔world championship in Madrid, Spain(Image credit: AFP)
200ܫ5 Worlds: Madrid, Spain hosted the road world championships(Image credit: AFP)
200ꦍ5 Worlds: Tom Boonen (Belgium) and Paolo Bettini (༺Italy) shoot the breeze(Image credit: AFP)
1998 Worlds: Just how windy and rainy was it for the elite men's world champions♔hip road race in Valgenbꦫurg, the Netherlands?(Image credit: AFP)
1998 Worlds: Mark🌸 Scanlon (Ireland), right, was the winner of the junior men's road race ahead of Filippo Pozzato (Italy), left(Image credit: AFP)
20💫11 Worlds: Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) celebrates the first world championship of ꦿhis career(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2011 Worlds: As is usually the cas🐈e,♈ colossal crowds are on hand to watch the world championship road race(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2011 Worlds: Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) ꦗsolos away from his rivals i♔n the finale en route to a world championship(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2012 Worlds: Elite men's podium (L-R) Edvald Boasson Hage⭕n (Norway), Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) and Alejandro Valverde (Spain)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2011 Worlds: Mark Cavendish 🐲(Great Britain) takes a narrow sprint victory to claim the world championship(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2011 Worlds: Elite men's podium (L-R) Matt Goss (Australia), Mark Cavendi💧sh (Great Britain) and Andre Greipel (German🌳y)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2011 Worlds: W✨orld champion Mark Cavendish (Great Britaওin) full of emotion on the podium(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2011 Worlds: The Devil is out and about in Copenhagen fo🌜r the road world championships(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2010 🧜Worlds: Thos Hushovd (Norway) resplendent in the rainbow jersey(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
🤡2010 Worlds: The peloton in action in Geel♏ong, Australia(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2010 Worlds: Thor Hushovd (Norway) wins the world championship ahead of Matti Breschel (De🏅nmark) and Allan Davis (Australia)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2009 Worlds: Australia's Cadel Evans basks in the moment of winning the wor🧸ld championship(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
🌱2009 Worlds: Cadel Evans (Australia) attacks with all his might in the closing kilometres and rides away alone to a world title(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2009 Worlds: It's not a world championship road race until ♏somebody lets loose with some smoke flares(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2008 Worlds: The peloton and tifosi inꦜ all ꧑of their colorful spendor(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2008 Worlds: Elit💯e men's podium (L-R) of Damiano Cunego (Italy), Alessandro Ballan (Italy) and Matti Breschel (Denmark)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
2008 Worlds: Alessandro Ballan (Italy) is moments away from the bigg🦄est victory of his career(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
1999 Worlds: Damiano Cunego wins the U23 world championship on ꦕhome soil in Verona, Italy(Image credit: AFP)
1999💟 Worlds: Frank Vandenbroucke (Belgium) 🅷on the start line in Verona(Image credit: AFP)
1998 Worlds: A cl🍰ean sweep for Italy in the U23 men's road rac꧂e via (L-R) Rinaldo Nocentini, Ivan Basso and Danilo Di Luca(Image credit: AFP)
1997 Worlds: France had plenty to celebrate in San Seb♎astian, Spain as Laurent Broch♒ard won the road race while compatriot Laurent Jalabert earned the time trial world title(Image credit: AFP)
1997 Worlds: Laurent Brochard (France) earns the rainbow jersey in San Sebastianℱ, Spain ahead of Bo Hamburger (Denmark) and Leon van ℱBon (Netherlands)(Image credit: AFP)
1997 W☂orlds: Check out the Spinergy wheels in action amidst the men's peloton in San Sebastian, Spain 🌌for the world championship road race(Image credit: AFP)
1997 Worlds: If�ജ� it's the Worlds then Oscar Freire (Spain) is in the mix. Here he finishes 2nd to Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Norway) in the U23 road race in San Sebastian, Spain(Image credit: AFP)
1997 Worlds: Franc🗹e's Richard Virenque and Laurent Jalabert in San Sebastian, Spain, for the world chღampionships(Image credit: AFP)
1993 Worlds: Lance Armstrong (USA) soloed to a world c🐟hampionship in Oslo, Norway(Image credit: AFP)
1980 Wordls: E🍌lite men's podium (L-R) Gianbattista Baronchelli (Italy), Bernard Hinault (France) and Juan Fernandez (Spain)(Image credit: AFP)
1980 Worlds: Soon 🐭to be crowned world champion Bernard Hinault (France) looks ready to devour what's left of his competition in one of the most arduous Worlds road racesᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ of the modern era(Image credit: AFP)
1995 Worlds: Miguel Indurain🏅 is moments away from winning the time trial world championship in Colombia, the only world title i🐠n his palmares(Image credit: AFP)
1995 World🍒s: To say it rained during the elite men's world championship road race in Duitama, Colombia is a bit of an understatement(Image credit: AFP)
1995 Worlds: Abraham Olano (Spain) rode in a rear flat tire in the closing kilome꧙terᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs for a world championship victory in Duitama, Colombia(Image credit: AFP)
1995 Worlds: Miguel Indurain (Spain) oustprints Spinaci-wielding Marco Pantani (Italy) for the silver medal and a 1-2 Spanish finish behind Abraham Olano in Duitama, Colombꦓia(Image credit: AFP)
1996 W🐻orlds: Johan Museeuw (Belgium) celebrates his world🗹 championship victory in Lugano, Switzerland(Image credit: AFP)
19ꦗ71 Worlds: Eddy Merckx (Belgium) outsprints Felice Gimondi (Italy) to win his second world championship in Mendrisio, Switzerland(Image credit: AFP)
1999 Worlds: Oscar who? Spain'🍌s Oscar Freire jumped away from an elite group in the final 500 meters to earn the first of three road world championships(Image credit: AFP)
1999 Worlds: Elite men's podium (L-ཧR) Markus Zberg (Switzerland), Oscar Freire (Spain) an🌳d Jean-Cyril Robin (France)(Image credit: AFP)
2008 Worlds: Italy's Matteo Tosatto and Paolo Bettini approach the finish line in celebration mode in the knowledge that teammates Alessandro Ballan and Damiano Cunego finished 1-2 on hoome soil in༒ Varese(Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Another chapter of the elite men's road race world championship is waiting to be written on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sunday afternoon and with 25 of the top 30 riders in the world slated to start, including all three Grand Tour winners from this year as well as the previous four rainbow jersey winners, the racing should ✃be stellar.
Tꦛhe parcours in Florence, Italy, will be punishing, featuring 3,000 meters of climbing over a 272km rou🐠te and undoubtedly a worthy champion will be crowned.
To whet your appetite for Sunday's finale Cyclingnews has compi🍌led images from 30 🔯different world championship editions, stretching back to 1968 where Vittorio Adorni crushed the peloton and won alone by an astonishing 10 minutes on home soil in Imola, Italy.
The world ꦚc♑hampionships are a special day of racing as it's the one event each year where trade team kits, albeit not always loyalties, are traded for the colours of one's national team.
Check out the 116 photo gallery for a trip down memory lane consisting of cycling luminaries such as Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser, Bernard Hin🅰ault, Greg LeMond, Moreno Argentin, Gianni Bugno as well as the champions of a more recent vintage.
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Based in the southeastern United States, Peter produces race coverage for all disciplines, edits news and writes features. The New Jersey native 🅘has 30 years of road racing and cyclo-c🐼ross experience, starting in the early 1980s as a Junior in the days of toe clips and leather hairnets. Over the years he's had the good fortune to race throughout the United States and has competed in national championships for both road and 'cross in the Junior and Masters categories. The passion for cycling started young, as before he switched to the road Peter's mission in life was catching big air on his BMX bike.
