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Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a handicap ) and race to a set finish point; and time trials , where individual riders or teams ...
The Taiwan KOM Challenge is a one-day road cycling race held annually in Taiwan. Created in 2012, the event is recognized as one of the most difficult cycling races in the world due having nearly 3500m of climbing over a 105 kilometer course. [1] Vincenzo Nibali, the 2017 winner, holds the record for the fastest time, with a time of 3:19:54. [2]
The Dirty Dozen is a one-day road cycling race in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, held annually on the Saturday before the Halloween holiday in October. [2] The event is contested over a 50-mile (80 km) course that features 13 of the steepest hills in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area .
From 1921 to 1964, the Amateur Bicycle League of America (ABLA) National Championships were held as an omnium of track-style events for Men, Women, and Juniors, rather than as a road race. In 1964 the American Cycling Newsletter (later Bicycling) reported the results of a Flemington, NJ race as the national road racing championships, but these ...
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The Pan American Cycling Championships are the continental cycling championships for road bicycle racing held annually for member nations of the Pan American Cycling Confederation. The events were first held in 1974 in Cali, Colombia for the road and track disciplines. The events consist of the: Pan American Road Championships
The Race Across America, or RAAM, is an ultra-distance road cycling race held across the United States that started in 1982 as the Great American Bike Race. RAAM 2015 team start RAAM is one of the longest annual endurance events in the world.
The winner of each category is entitled to wear the rainbow jersey in races of that category [1] (either mass start or time trial) until the next championships. It currently includes the following championships: Elite Men's road race; Elite Men's time trial; Under-23 Men's road race; Under-23 Men's time trial; Junior Men's road race; Junior Men ...