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The UCI Road World Championships Elite Men's Road Race is a one-day event for professional cyclists that takes place annually. The winner is considered the World Cycling Champion (or World Road Cycling Champion) and earns the right to wear the Rainbow Jersey for a full year in road race or stage events. The event is a single 'mass start' road ...
Three Days of De Panne, Belgium. Giro del Trentino, Italy (2.HC since 2011) Tour of Turkey, Turkey (2.HC since 2010) Four Days of Dunkirk, France. Tour of California, United States. Tour of Norway, Norway. Tour of Belgium, Belgium. Tour de Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Tour of Qinghai Lake, People's Republic of China.
The 2021 UCI Road World Championships was the 94th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It was held between 19 and 26 September 2021 in the Flanders region of Belgium. [1] [2] [3] The region was chosen in light of the centenary of the world championships with the UCI opting for a ...
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. [1] A men's team time trial, contested by national teams, was introduced in 1962.
12. ← 2014. 2016 →. The 2015 UCI Road World Championships took place in Richmond, Virginia, United States from September 19–27, 2015. [1] It was the 88th Road World Championships. Peter Sagan won the men's road race and Lizzie Armitstead won the women's road race. Banner of the Championships.
Paris–Roubaix. Paris–Roubaix [pa.ʁi.ʁu.bɛ] is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the ' Monuments ' or classics of the European calendar, and contributes points towards the UCI World ...
The UCI World Championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winners wear a white jersey with coloured bands around the chest for the following year.
When Roche won the World Championship Road Race later in the season, he became only the second rider (after Merckx) to win cycling's Triple Crown, which meant winning the Giro d'Italia, the Tour and the Road World Cycling Championship in one calendar year. Lévitan helped drive an internationalization of the Tour de France, and cycling in ...