2020 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race
2020 UCI Road World Championships | ||||||||||
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Race details | ||||||||||
Dates | 26 September 2020 | |||||||||
Stages | 1 in Imola, Italy | |||||||||
Distance | 143 km (88.86 mi) | |||||||||
Winning time | 4h 09' 57"[1] | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Events at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships | ||
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Elite events | ||
Elite road race | men | women |
Elite time trial | men | women |
The Women's road race of the 2020 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 26 September 2020 in Imola, Italy.[2] Annemiek van Vleuten was the defending champion.[3]
Anna van der Breggen from the Netherlands became the first rider in 25 years to win both the road race and time trial titles at a single World Championships, after a 40-kilometre (25-mile) solo attack.[4] She finished 80 seconds clear of her closest competitors,[5] to win her second world title in three years. The silver medal went to compatriot van Vleuten, who was riding the race with a brace on a fractured wrist – having completed a U-turn on competing in the race – following a crash the week prior at the Giro Rosa.[6][7][8] The bronze medal was taken by Italy's Elisa Longo Borghini, losing out to van Vleuten in a two-up sprint.[4][5]
The race took place on a 28.8 kilometres (17.9 mi) course, starting and finishing at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a motor racing circuit).[9] Heading out from the Autodromo into the Emilia-Romagna countryside, the course used two climbs with an average gradient of 10% separated by the town of Riolo Terme, before returning to the Autodromo. The women's road race lapped the course five times, making a total of 143 kilometres (89 mi).[9]
Qualification
[edit]Participating nations
[edit]Following the withdrawals of Chloé Dygert and Rotem Gafinovitz after the time trial two days prior to the race, 143 cyclists from 41 nations were listed to start the 143-kilometre (89 mi)-long course.[10] Three further riders did not start the race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
- Argentina (1)
- Australia (7)
- Austria (3)
- Belgium (6)
- Belarus (
21) - Canada (6)
- Chile (1)
- Colombia (3)
- Cuba (1)
- Czech Republic (3)
- Denmark (6)
- Spain (6)
- Estonia (1)
- Ethiopia (1)
- France (5)
- Germany (7)
- Great Britain (6)
- Hungary (1)
- Iceland (3)
- Israel (1)
- Italy (7)
- Japan (1)
- Latvia (1)
- Lithuania (3)
- Luxembourg (3)
- Morocco (2)
- Mexico (4)
- Netherlands (8)
- Norway (
65) - New Zealand (3)
- Poland (6)
- South Africa (2)
- Russia (3)
- Slovenia (5)
- Switzerland (4)
- Slovakia (1)
- Sweden (3)
- Trinidad and Tobago (1)
- Ukraine (3)
- United States (6)
- Uzbekistan (
10)
Final classification
[edit]Of the race's 140 entrants, 105 riders completed the full distance of 143-kilometre (89 mi).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Final Results / Résultat final: Women Elite Road Race". Tissot Timing. Tissot. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ "Road World Championships 2020 route: Maps and profiles for revised events". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ Skelton, Jack (28 September 2019). "Road World Championships: Annemiek van Vleuten wins first women's world road title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ a b Frattini, Kirsten (26 September 2020). "Anna van der Breggen wins elite women's world title at Imola World Championships". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Road World Championships: Anna van der Breggen wins women's road race for rare double". BBC Sport. BBC. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ "Giro Rosa: Race leader Annemiek van Vleuten will miss worlds after suffering broken wrist". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "Van Vleuten not ruling out World Championships participation despite broken wrist". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 20 September 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ Farrand, Stephen (25 September 2020). "Van Vleuten cleared to ride UCI World Championships road race". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
- ^ a b "The UCI reveals the routes for the Imola – Emilia-Romagna 2020 UCI Road World Championships". www.uci.org. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "2020 UCI Road World Championships - Start list - Women Elite Road Race" (PDF). UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.