2019 UCI Road World Championships
Harrogate is located in North Yorkshire
Harrogate
Harrogate
Harrogate is located in the United Kingdom
Harrogate
Harrogate
VenueHarrogate, United Kingdom
Date(s) (2019-09-22 - 2019-09-29)22–29 September 2019
Coordinates53°59′30″N 1°32′15″W / 53.99167°N 1.53750°W / 53.99167; -1.53750
Events11

The 2019 UCI Road World Championships was the 92nd edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It took place between 22 and 29 September 2019 in the historic county of Yorkshire, United Kingdom, the fourth to be held in the United Kingdom. The championships are traditionally hosted by a single town or city but, while each event in 2019 finished in the North Yorkshire town of Harrogate, the whole historic county of Yorkshire was the official host. Heavy rainfall caused some of the events to be re-routed and delayed.

Men and women were split into the categories of elite, under-23 (only men) and junior, competing individually in the two traditional road race and time trial disciplines of road bicycle racing. The 2019 championships saw the introduction of the mixed team relay, a team time trial which was raced together by the elite men and women. Mads Pedersen of Denmark won the men's elite road race and Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands won the women's elite road race. The elite time trial titles were taken by Australian Rohan Dennis and American Chloé Dygert Owen.

Race locations

Starting point for the junior women's and under-23 men's road races in Doncaster[1]

In July 2017, it was announced that Harrogate would host two circuit races and the other races were to start in locations across the historic county of Yorkshire, including Beverley, Doncaster, Leeds, Northallerton, Ripon and York.[2]

At the 2018 UCI Road World Championships in September 2018, further details for the championships were announced.[3] Harrogate would host the finishes for all eleven races during the eight days of racing,[4] including the new-for-2019 mixed team time trial relay; three of these races will be contested entirely within a circuit of 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) in and around Harrogate. Ripon was announced to hold the start of two time trials, while the men's time trial will start in Northallerton.[5] For the road races, Richmond was announced as the start location for the men's junior road race, while Doncaster would hold the start for the two remaining age-group races.[5] The elite races were announced to be starting in Bradford (women) and Leeds (men) respectively.[3]

The men's and women's elite road races followed separate routes before entering a 14 km (9 mi) circuit in and around the town of Harrogate. The men's elite road race integrated the route from stage one of the 2014 Tour de France for the first 185 kilometres (115 miles) before completing seven laps of the final circuit, for a total distance of 284.5 kilometres (176.8 miles).[6] However, heavy rainfall necessitated last minute changes to the route of the men's elite road race, shortening the route to 260.7 kilometres (162.0 miles).[7]

Schedule

All times listed below were for the local time – British Summer Time or UTC+01:00.

Date Timings Event Location
(start)		 Location
(finish)		 Distance Laps[lower-alpha 1]
Mixed team relay
22 September 13:10 15:37 Mixed relay Harrogate 27.6 km (17.1 mi)[9] 2
Individual time trial events
23 September 10:10 11:42 Junior women Harrogate 13.7 km (8.5 mi)[10] 1
13:10 16:41 Junior men 27.6 km (17.1 mi)[11] 2
24 September 10:10 12:29 Under-23 men Ripon Harrogate 30.3 km (18.8 mi)[12][13] 1
14:40 16:48 Elite women
25 September 13:10 15:48 Elite men Northallerton 54 km (34 mi)[14] —
Road race events
26 September 12:10 15:48 Junior men Richmond Harrogate 148.1 km (92.0 mi)[15] 3
27 September 08:40 11:19 Junior women Doncaster 86 km (53 mi)[16] —
14:10 19:06 Under-23 men 171.6 km (106.6 mi)[17] 2
28 September 11:40 15:47 Elite women Bradford 149.4 km (92.8 mi)[18] 3
29 September 09:10 15:35 Elite men Leeds 260.7 km (162.0 mi)[lower-alpha 2] 9

Race summaries

Elite men's road race

The start of the men's road race in Leeds

Mads Pedersen surprised in the men's road race by becoming the first Danish world champion in the event after winning the sprint in a three-man breakaway.[23] Italy's Matteo Trentin started the sprint but took silver while Stefan Küng of Switzerland took bronze.[24] One of the favourites, Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands, had also been in the breakaway but could not follow it on the last lap and finished over ten minutes behind. The day was marred by atrocious, torrential, downpours and bitterly cold, windy weather. This left four men where Italy's Gianni Moscon later lost contact; he finished in fourth place but was unable to help his teammate Trentin. Three-time champion Peter Sagan of Slovakia made a late breakaway from a larger chase group but could not catch the leaders and came fifth, followed by Michael Valgren of Denmark.[25]

Elite women's road race

Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten won the race, after a solo breakaway for more than 100 km (62 mi). Defending champion Anna van der Breggen, also of the Netherlands, finished as runner-up, with Australian cyclist Amanda Spratt finishing in third.[26][27]

Elite time trials

The men's time trial was 54 km (34 mi). Defending champion Rohan Dennis of Australia won by more than a minute. The silver went to the 19-year-old Belgian Remco Evenepoel who skipped the under-23 event after winning both the road race and time trial for juniors in 2018. Italy's Filippo Ganna rounded out the podium.[28]

The women's time trial was 30.3 km (18.8 mi). The American Chloé Dygert Owen won by 1 minute 32 seconds, the largest margin ever in a world championship time trial. Anna van der Breggen took silver. Two-time defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten, had to settle with bronze. Four days later she won the road race after riding solo for more than three times as long.[29]

The new mixed team time trial relay was 27.6 km (17.1 mi) in total, one lap for three men and one for three women. The inaugural event was won by one of the favourites, the Dutch team, with the female trio of Lucinda Brand, Riejanne Markus, Amy Pieters, and the male triumvirate Koen Bouwman, Bauke Mollema and Jos van Emden. Germany and the host Great Britain took silver and bronze, 23 seconds and 51 seconds behind.[30]

Under-23 events

The start of the men's under-23 road race in Doncaster

As usual, there were only under-23 events for men. In the road race, Nils Eekhoff of the Netherlands won the sprint in a seven-man group but was later disqualified for drafting behind his team car for too long after a crash. The gold then went to Italy's Samuele Battistella. Stefan Bissegger of Switzerland was elevated to silver and Tom Pidcock got into the podium with a bronze for the British hosts.[31]

The Danish favourite Mikkel Bjerg won his third consecutive gold in the under-23 time trial. The Americans Ian Garrison and Brandon McNulty took silver and bronze one second apart, but 27 seconds behind Bjerg who started as the last rider.[32]

Junior events

Both junior road races were won by Americans. Quinn Simmons finished solo in the men's race[33] while Megan Jastrab won a sprint for women.[34] The victories contributed to the United States winning the most golds in the 2019 championships, three in total.

Antonio Tiberi of Italy won the junior time trial for men by 8 seconds.[35] Russia's Aigul Gareeva won for women by four seconds.[36]

Events summary

Elite events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Events
Men's road race[21]
  Mads Pedersen (DEN) 6h 27' 28"  Matteo Trentin (ITA) + 0"  Stefan Küng (SUI) + 2"
Men's time trial[14]
  Rohan Dennis (AUS) 1h 05' 05.35"  Remco Evenepoel (BEL) + 1' 08.93"  Filippo Ganna (ITA) + 1' 55.00"
Women's Events
Women's road race[37]
  Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) 4h 06' 05"  Anna van der Breggen (NED) + 2' 15"  Amanda Spratt (AUS) + 2' 28"
Women's time trial[38]
  Chloé Dygert Owen (USA) 42' 11.57"  Anna van der Breggen (NED) + 1' 32.35"  Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) + 1' 52.66"
Mixed Event
Mixed relay[9]
 Netherlands Netherlands 38' 27.60" Germany Germany + 22.75" United Kingdom United Kingdom + 51.27"

Under-23 events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 road race[17]
  Samuele Battistella (ITA) 3h 53' 52"  Stefan Bissegger (SUI) + 0"  Tom Pidcock (GBR) + 0"
Men's under-23 time trial[39]
  Mikkel Bjerg (DEN) 40' 20.42"  Ian Garrison (USA) + 26.45"  Brandon McNulty (USA) + 27.69"

Junior events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Juniors Events
Men's junior road race[40]
  Quinn Simmons (USA) 3h 38' 04"  Alessio Martinelli (ITA) + 56"  Magnus Sheffield (USA) + 1' 33"
Men's junior time trial[41]
  Antonio Tiberi (ITA) 38' 28.25"  Enzo Leijnse (NED) + 7.79"  Marco Brenner (GER) + 12.62"
Women's Juniors Events
Women's junior road race[42]
  Megan Jastrab (USA) 2h 08' 00"  Julie de Wilde (BEL) + 0"  Lieke Nooijen (NED) + 0"
Women's junior time trial[43]
  Aigul Gareeva (RUS) 22' 16.23"  Shirin van Anrooij (NED) + 3.61"  Elynor Bäckstedt (GBR) + 10.93"

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Great Britain)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)3126
2 Netherlands (NED)2428
3 Italy (ITA)2215
4 Denmark (DEN)2002
5 Australia (AUS)1012
6 Russia (RUS)1001
7 Belgium (BEL)0202
8 Germany (GER)0112
  Switzerland (SUI)0112
10 Great Britain (GBR)*0033
Totals (10 entries)11111133

Legacy

The legacy of the Worlds event has been reported with £15 million worth of funding to go towards the construction of 27 off-road racing venues around the country, "to ensure that every part of Britain has close access to a closed road circuit, velodrome, BMX track or mountain bike trail".[44]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Denotes the number of laps completed of the 14 km (8.7 mi) circuit in Harrogate.[8]
  2. ↑ The race was initially scheduled to be contested over 280 km (170 mi) including seven laps of the Harrogate finish circuit.[19] Due to flooding on the course,[20] the race was reduced to 260.7 km (162.0 mi),[21] although two additional laps of the finish circuit were added to the itinerary.[22]

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