UCI Road World Championships 2022
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Day 7 - Remco Evenepoel wins Wollongong World Championships with🃏 stunning solo attack
Belgian Remco Evenepoel has soared to a spectacular solo victory in the 2022 World Championships Elite Men Road Race, with Christophe Laporte taking silver for France and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Matthews the bronze for host nation Australia.
In a memorably do𓂃minating and clinically efficient performance, the 22-year-old claimed the victory alone and more than two minutes ahead of the field.
After despatching his most persistent pursuer 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alexey Lutsenko (Kazakhstan) with some 25 kilometres to go, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel&nb♒sp;forged his own path to Belgium’s first World Championships in a decade.
As the first Belgian Grand Tour champion in 44 years in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España this September, as well as being the winner of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liege-Bastogne-Liege ✅;this spring, Evenepoel’s latest victory culminates 𒐪a dramatically successful year.
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Day 6 - Annemiek van Vleuten stuns the Worlds to♋ snatch road race title w𝓰ith last-gasp attack
Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)&🅷nbsp;pulled off a spectacular late attack and won the elite women's road race at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships. It was her second road ti♌tle at the Worlds, last winning in 2019 in Yorkshire, and this time racing with a fractured elbow.
Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) took the silver medal as she led a group o🦩f 11 across the rain-soaked finish line one second behind the Dutch winner, while Silvia Persico (Italy) rounded out the podium with the bronze medal.
The Dutchwoman, who had crashed badly and was injured in the mixed relay team time trial event just three days 🐈before, launched her winning move in the final kilometre of the 164.3km event, held from fro🥂m Helensburgh to Wollongong.
With medals on offer for both the women’s elite and the under-23 category in the same race, Niamh Fisher-Black (New Zealand), 12th across the line, was the first-ever U23 champion. Pfeiffer Georgi (Great Britain) clai🌟med the U23 silve𝓀r medal and Ricarda Bauernfeind (Germany) the bronze.
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Day 6 - Zoe Backsted𓄧t dominates junior women's road race to win ☂second world title in Wollongong
Great Britain's Zoe Backstedt won her second rainbow jersey of the week in Wollongong at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships as she dominated ꧒the 67.2km junior women's road race.
The remaining two spots on the podium were decided in a two-up sprint, Eglantine Rayer (France) taking the silver while Nienke Vinke (Netherlands) earned bronze. The pair finished 2 𒅌minutes, 7 seconds behind the defending junior world champion.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Backstedt won the individual time trial for junior women on Tuesday. It was also her fifth consecutive world title having defe📖nded the junior women's road race world title that she won last year in Flanders, to go along with the world titles she won in the Madison and cyclo-cross🥀 disciplines earned earlier in the year.
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Day 5 - Yevgeniꦉy Fedorov emerges from the rain to win Under-23 world title
Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kazakhstan) won the men's under-23 road race at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships in Australia, surging near the lin💮e to outdistance breakaway companion and silver medalist Mathias Vacek (Czech Republic).
Under-23 tꦰime trial World Champion Søren Wærenskjold (Norway) won the bron🌞ze medal, taking the sprint ahead of a chase group of just 20 riders.
The duo of Fedorov and Vacek, who both ride for WorldTour teams, struck out on a late attack and went clear on the final climb of Mount Pleasant on the 169.8km race. They opened an 18-🧜second gap, enough to hold off the chasers and sprint for the world tit🉐le.
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Day 5 - Herzog outsprints Morgado to win the junior men's road race at World Cham🎐pionships
Germany’s Emil Herzog outsprinted Antꦓónio Morgado of Portugal and won the men’s junior road race title at the Road World Championships on a rainy Friday morning in in Wollongong, Australia.
In the bunch sprint for the bronze medal, Vlad van Mechelen (Belgium) was the best of a 11 riders. Paul Magnier (France) was fourth a🌼nd Artem Shmidt (United States) was fifth.
With 42.5km to go in the 135.6km race, Morgado was part of a chase group that caught an early breakaway, and then powered away from his companions on the final 17km. Herzog attacked on the descent of Mount Pleasant and caught Morgado with 2.4km to go t💎o♓ set up the two-man contest.
On the first of eight descents of Mount Pleasant, the slippery roads caused a crash of three faꩲvourites, Joshua Tarling (Gre🥀at Britain), Harnish McKenzie (Australia) and Max van der Meulen (Netherlands). McKenzie finished 37th among the 60 finishers of the 106 riders to start the race, while Tarling and Van der Meulen were not able to complete the event.
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Day 4 - Switzerland wins W♑orlds team time trial mixed relay
Switzerland claimed its first 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI World Road Championships title in the team time trial mixed relay on a 28.2km course in Wollongong, securing the victory by three seconds over Italy. The Australian team spent a good part of the day in the hot seat with an early lead, but settled for bronze, 38 seconds off the winninꦺg pace.
The Swiss trio of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stefan Küng, Mauro Schmid, and Stefan Bissegger was the fastest of the men's squads on the course in New South Wales, setting up the trio of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Elise Chabbey, Marlen Reusser, and Nicole Koller to hold the lead and take th🌱e win.
The Dutch ꦅsquad, winners in 2019 and second in 2021, finished a disappointing fifth after Bauke Mollema experienced an early mechanical and then Olympic TT champion Annemiek van Vleuten crashed just moments after the women rolled down the start ramp.
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Day 3 - Josh Tarling snatches junior🌃 men's time trial title
Josh Tarling captured the men’s junior time trial title at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong on T♓uesday afternoon in a sweep for Great Britain in the juni✨or races.
Australia's Hamish McKenzie sat in t𒈔he hot seat for most of the event, but was bumped to the silver medal by Tarling's fast time of 34:59, which was 19 seconds faster. Germany's Emil Herzog took the bronze in a time of 35:32.
Tarling turns 19 in February, when he will ride for WorldTour squad Ineos Grenadiers in 2023. The Welsma♌n won a silver medal last year but moved to the top step of the podium and pulled on the🐻 rainbow jersey just hours after Zoe Backstedt won the junior women’s title for Britain.
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Day 3 - Zoe Backsꩲtedt dominates junior women's time tri♌al at Wollongong Worlds
Great Britain's Zoe Backstedt won the junior women's time trial title in dominant fashion Tuesday morning at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. 🎉She covered the 14.1km course in 18:26, a full minute and 35 seconds faster than runner-up Justyna Czapla (Germany). Febe Jooris (Belgium) posted a time another 13 seconds back to claim third.
The clear favourite after taking the silver medal in the same event last year in Flanders, Backstedt was the last of 37 riders on the rolling and technical course. By the half-way point on the climb of Mount Ousely, she was the only rider to go under nine minutes. She never eased her pace and caꦏptured a second rainbow jersey to her collection, having won the junior road race in 2021.
Jooris had a strong second-half ride and was in the top spot by half a second over Eliška Kvasničkova (Czech Republic) with three riders on the course. Czapla ousted her from the top spot and then both were steamrolled by Backstedt but held on to podium positions.
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Day 2 - Waerenskjold shows future talents to win World Championships U23 time🦄 trial
Norway's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Søren Wærenskjold claimed the under-23 men's world time trial title on Monday in Wollongong, covering the 28.8km 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Championship course in 34:13 to take the rainbow jersey.
The 22-year-old, who rides for Uno-X, secured the top step of the final podium with A𒈔lec Segaert (Belgium) the runne🧸r-up and Leo Hayter (Great Britain) taking third on the day.
One month after he nabbed a third career stage win at the Tour de l'Avenir, Wærenskjold put in a powꦑerful ꦑand consistent ride out on the TT course in Wollongong, delivering a particularly solid second half of his effort to take over the provisional lead from Hayter.
Wærenskjold then spent nearly an hour in the hot seat as rivals tried to match his mark. Segaert, the day's penultimate starter and a major rival came closest, going faster through the first split, but he could not maintain the 🍃high pace through the remainder of his ride.
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Day 1 - Van Dijk beats Brown to win third eli🍰te women's time trial title at World Championships
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ellen van Dijk picked up her second straight elite world time trial gold, and the third of her career, on Saturday in Woll💟ongong, Australia, successfully defending her title in a 34.2km race.
"I never expected to win. I didn't think it was a perfect course for me but I had a good mental and physical approach with my coach. I just thought I would give it my all today, a podium spot would be nice, but if it's not, it's not, I still had a great year. I never thought I wou🧸ld win today," Van Dijk said.
As the reigning champion, Van Dijk was the final starter out on the road, and she did not disappoint. When Van Dijk set out of the start ramp, the hot seat was in the possession of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Grace Brown, and the Australian's time continued to s๊tand out as the day's best as one riva⛄l after another crossed the finish line.
Switzerland's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marlen Reusser appeared on pace to cha༺llenge Brown after setting a faster time through the first intermediate, and then Van Dijk stormed through the time check nine seconds faster than that.
Van Dijk did not fade. The Dutchwoman cruise𒐪d through the twists and turns of the occasionally lumpy course to arrive 12 seconds faster than Reusser, securing a second world time🐎 trial title in a row with a time of 44:29.
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Day 1 - Tobias Foss stuns fa🐬vourites to win🅷 World Championships time trial
Norway's Tobias Foss took a stunning vic⛦tory in the elite men's time trial at the UCI Road World Championships on Sunday in Wollongong, A💙ustralia.
The 25-year-old bested 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stefan Küng (Switzerland), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel (Belgium), and quite a few other TT talents on a 34.2km course to claim his first title in the event.&nbꦅsp;
Filippo Ganna (Italy), winner of the past two world titles, was way o꧂ff the pace and finished seventh at nearly a minute in arrears.
Foss, Norway's two-t🌌ime reigning champion in the d💟iscipline, set a time of 40:02 on the course to take over the hot seat from Stefan Bissegger (Switzerland).
Küng, who seemed to be in the driver's seat after a fast start, faded slightly in the second half of his effort 🐎and settled for runner-up honours at just three seconds back, with Evenepoel rounding out the podium nine seconds slower than Foss.
When al༒l was said and done, Foss was still in the hot seat, having secured Norway's first men's world TT title.
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The Aust🌞ralian coastal city of Wollongong will host the UCI Road World Championships in 2022, marking only the second time the the rainbow jersey deciding event has been held in the nation.&nbs🦄p;
It will🍃 provide a stark contrast to the well-raced roads of Flanders in 2021, presenting fresh territory for the majority of the field, just like the last Road World Championships in the nation, which was held in Geelong in 2010.
The racing for 13 world titles – with 𒊎an Under 23 women's time trial and road race rainbow jersey being added for the first time – will largely take place on circuits around Wollongong. The elite road races also incorporat🅺e a Helensburgh start which takes riders past some of the spectacular coastal cliffs south of Sydney, opening up the possibility of some action in the cross winds before the field takes to the inland Mount Keira circuit and city circuit, which includes the Mount Pleasant climb.
It's a course which delivers a mixture of fast straights, sharp climbs and technical sections.
The racing through theꦬ rainforest, and past the cliffs and coastline of New South Wales marks the welcome return of international racing to Australia, which has been off the menu the past two years with COVID-19 related border closures having led to the cancellation of the Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race in 2021 and 2022.
Road Worlds information
When is the 2022 Road World Championships?
The 2022 Road World Championships takes pla𒀰ce from September 18-25.
Where is the Road World Championships?
Most of the racing starts and finishes in the Australian city of Wollongong – which is located on Dharawal country – and is 💜just 80 kilometres south of the centre of Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales.
The elite road races start in the town of Helensburgh, which sits about 250ജ metres above sea level and is about halfway between 🔜Wollongong and Sydney.
Road Worlds key news and features
- 2022 UCI Road World Championships – 5 riders to watch in the men's time trial
- 2022 UCI Road World Championships – 6 riders to watch in the elite-U23 women's time trial
- 2022 UCI Road World Championships – 10 riders to watch in the elite men's road race
- 2022 UCI Road World Championships – 10 riders to watch in the elite women's road race
- A winner with no race – The enigmatic new women's U23 category at the World Championships
- The logistics, dynamics, and talking points of the new U23 women's category at World Championships
- How to watch the 2022 Road World Championships – live TV and streaming
- UCI Road World Championships 2022 - The Essential Preview
- Can a sprinter win on the 2022 Road Worlds course?
- Back to an old stomping ground for 2022 Road Worlds race director Scott Sunderland
- Wollongong Road Worlds a light at end of tunnel for Australian cycling
Road Worlds teams analysis
- Analysing Belgium's 2022 UCI Road World Championships teams
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- Analysing the USA's 2022 Road World Championships teams
- Analysing the Netherlands' men's and women's 2022 Road World Championships teams
- Analysing Great Britain's 2022 Road World Championships teams
- Analysing France's men's and women's 2022 Road World Championships teams
Road World Championships overview
The 2022 UCI Road World Championᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚships is the 95th edition of the event, first contested 101 years ago for amateurs in 1921. It will be the first edition of the race where titles are rewarded in the women's Under 23 category, with the two additional rainbow jerseys taking the number of titles up for grabs to 13. That wi꧋ll not, however, mean any extra events are added to the schedule with the U23 competition taking place within the elite women's event.
Last year's host Belgium has welcomed the Road World Championships nine times – six of those being in Flanders – while 2022 is only the second time the event will be held in the Southern Hemisphere. The Victorian city of Geelong was the first time, in 2010.
In 2023 th𝄹e event will be in Glasgow, Great Britain, then the racing will move to Zurich, Switzerland in 2024 and the 2025 host is Kiga🍰li, Rwanda.
UCI Road World Championships Facts and Figures
First edition: Race for amateurs began in 1921
First UCI Road World Champion: Sweden’s Gunnar Sköld
First edition with professionals: In 1927 the first Championships for professional men took place in Nürburgring, Germany
First women's race at event: In 1958 the women's road race was added to the program
First women to win a rainbow jersey: Luxembourg’s Elsy Jacobs
Most world titles: French rider Jeannie Longo won five rainbow jerseys in the road race and four more in the individual time trial
Youth categories: Dedicated races and medals were introduced in 1975
Most recent event added to schedule: The team time trial mixed relay was put on the schedule in 2019
U23 Women's titles: 2022 will be the first year titles are awarded to U23 women in the time trial and road race, with the winner being the first under 23 rider over the line in the elite women's events
U23 Women stand-alone events: The category will have its𓆉 own races on the 💙schedule from 2025
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UCI Road World Championships 202217 September 2022 - 25 September 2022 | Wollongong, NSW | CM
- 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Past winners🐼 of the UCI Road World Championships
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