UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

The UCI Road World Championships Elite Women'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 race with the winner being the first across the line at the completion of the full race distance. The road race is contested by riders organized by national cycling teams as opposed to commercially sponsored or trade teams, which is the standard in professional cycling.

Women's road race
Race details
DateEnd of season
DisciplineOne-day road race
OrganiserUCI
History
Most wins Jeannie Longo (FRA) (5 wins)
Most recent Lotte Kopecky (BEL)

History

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The UCI Road World Championships for women made its debut in Reims, France in 1958. Due to the Summer Olympics, the Road World Championships were not held in 1984, 1988 and 1992.

Until about 1990, the race varied in length from a low of 46.6 km in 1966 to around 72 km (30 to 50 miles). From 1991, the race length began to gradually increase, first to 79 km (Stuttgart, Germany), and then to over 100 km in 1996 (Lugano, Switzerland). Since 2010, the course has varied in length between 130 kilometres (81 mi) and 160 kilometres (99 mi).

The event can be held over either a relatively flat course which favors cycling sprinters or over a hilly course which favors more of a climbing specialist or all-round type of cyclist. It usually involves laps of a circuit, albeit with fewer laps than the Elite Men's race.

From 2022 to 2024, competitors in this race under the age of 23 at the end of the previous year were also competing for honours in their own classification.

Historically, European nations have dominated this event.

Results

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
Women road race medallists[1]
1958   Elsy Jacobs (LUX)   Tamara Novikova (URS)   Mariya Loukchina (URS)
1959   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)   Aino Puronen (URS)   Vera Gorbatcheva (URS)
1960   Beryl Burton (GBR)   Rosa Sels (BEL)   Elisabeth Kleinhaus (GDR)
1961   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)   Beryl Burton (GBR)   Elsy Jacobs (LUX)
1962   Marie-Rose Gaillard (BEL)   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)   Marie-Therese Naessens (BEL)
1963   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)   Rosa Sels (BEL)   Aino Puronen (URS)
1964   Emīlija Sonka (URS)   Galina Yudina (URS)   Rosa Sels (BEL)
1965   Elisabeth Eicholz (GDR)   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)   Aino Puronen (URS)
1966   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)   Aino Puronen (URS)
1967   Beryl Burton (GBR)   Lyubov Zadorojnala (URS)   Anna Konkina (URS)
1968   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)   Baiba Caune (URS)   Morena Tartagni (ITA)
1969   Audrey McElmury (USA)   Bernadette Swinnerton (GBR)   Nina Trofimova (URS)
1970   Anna Konkina (URS)   Morena Tartagni (ITA)   Raisa Obodovskaia (URS)
1971   Anna Konkina (URS)   Morena Tartagni (ITA)   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)
1972   Geneviève Gambillon (FRA)   Lyubov Zadorojnala (URS)   Anna Konkina (URS)
1973   Nicole Vandenbroeck (BEL)   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)   Valentina Rebrovskala (URS)
1974   Geneviève Gambillon (FRA)   Baiba Caune (URS)   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)
1975   Tineke Fopma (NED)   Geneviève Gambillon (FRA)   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)
1976   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)   Laura Bissoli (ITA)   Yvonne Reynders (BEL)
1977   Josiane Bost (FRA)   Connie Carpenter (USA)   Minnie Brinkhof (NED)
1978   Beate Habetz (FRG)   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED)   Eva Lorenzo (ITA)
1979   Petra de Bruijn (NED)   Jen De Smet (BEL)   Beate Habetz (FRG)
1980   Beth Heiden (USA)   Tullikke Jahre (SWE)   Mandy Jones (GBR)
1981   Ute Enzenauer (FRG)   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Connie Carpenter (USA)
1982   Mandy Jones (GBR)   Maria Canins (ITA)   Gerda Sierens (BEL)
1983   Marianne Berglund (SWE)   Rebecca Twigg (USA)   Maria Canins (ITA)
1984 No race
1985   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Maria Canins (ITA)   Sandra Schumacher (FRG)
1986   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Janelle Parks (USA)   Alla Jakovleva (URS)
1987   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Heleen Hage (NED)   Connie Meyer (NED)
1988 No race
1989   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Catherine Marsal (FRA)   Maria Canins (ITA)
1990   Catherine Marsal (FRA)   Ruthie Matthes (USA)   Luisa Seghezzi (ITA)
1991   Leontien van Moorsel (NED)   Inga Thompson (USA)   Alison Sydor (CAN)
1992 No race
1993   Leontien van Moorsel (NED)   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Laura Charameda (USA)
1994   Monica Valvik (NOR)   Patsy Maegerman (BEL)   Jeanne Golay (USA)
1995   Jeannie Longo (FRA)   Catherine Marsal (FRA)   Edita Pučinskaitė (LTU)
1996   Barbara Heeb (SUI)   Rasa Polikevičiūtė (LTU)   Linda Jackson (CAN)
1997   Alessandra Cappellotto (ITA)   Elizabeth Tadich (AUS)   Catherine Marsal (FRA)
1998   Diana Žiliūtė (LTU)   Leontien van Moorsel (NED)   Hanka Kupfernagel (GER)
1999   Edita Pučinskaitė (LTU)   Anna Wilson (AUS)   Diana Žiliūtė (LTU)
2000   Zinaida Stahurskaia (BLR)   Chantal Beltman (NED)   Madeleine Lindberg (SWE)
2001   Rasa Polikevičiūtė (LTU)   Edita Pučinskaitė (LTU)   Jeannie Longo (FRA)
2002   Susanne Ljungskog (SWE)   Nicole Brändli (SUI)   Joane Somarriba (ESP)
2003   Susanne Ljungskog (SWE)   Mirjam Melchers (NED)   Nicole Cooke (GBR)
2004   Judith Arndt (GER)   Tatiana Guderzo (ITA)   Anita Valen (NOR)
2005   Regina Schleicher (GER)   Nicole Cooke (GBR)   Oenone Wood (AUS)
2006   Marianne Vos (NED)   Trixi Worrack (GER)   Nicole Cooke (GBR)
2007   Marta Bastianelli (ITA)   Marianne Vos (NED)   Giorgia Bronzini (ITA)
2008   Nicole Cooke (GBR)   Marianne Vos (NED)   Judith Arndt (GER)
2009   Tatiana Guderzo (ITA)   Marianne Vos (NED)   Noemi Cantele (ITA)
2010   Giorgia Bronzini (ITA)   Marianne Vos (NED)   Emma Johansson (SWE)
2011   Giorgia Bronzini (ITA)   Marianne Vos (NED)   Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (GER)
2012   Marianne Vos (NED)   Rachel Neylan (AUS)   Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
2013   Marianne Vos (NED)   Emma Johansson (SWE)   Rossella Ratto (ITA)
2014   Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA)   Lisa Brennauer (GER)   Emma Johansson (SWE)
2015   Lizzie Armitstead (GBR)   Anna van der Breggen (NED)   Megan Guarnier (USA)
2016   Amalie Dideriksen (DEN)   Kirsten Wild (NED)   Lotta Lepistö (FIN)
2017   Chantal Blaak (NED)   Katrin Garfoot (AUS)   Amalie Dideriksen (DEN)
2018   Anna van der Breggen (NED)   Amanda Spratt (AUS)   Tatiana Guderzo (ITA)
2019   Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)   Anna van der Breggen (NED)   Amanda Spratt (AUS)
2020   Anna van der Breggen (NED)   Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)   Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)
2021   Elisa Balsamo (ITA)   Marianne Vos (NED)   Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL)
2022   Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)   Lotte Kopecky (BEL)   Silvia Persico (ITA)
2023   Lotte Kopecky (BEL)   Demi Vollering (NED)   Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN)
2024   Lotte Kopecky (BEL)   Chloe Dygert (USA)   Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)

Most successful riders

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Updated after the 2024 UCI Road World Championships

Rank Name and country Gold Silver Bronze Total Winning years
1   Jeannie Longo (FRA) 5 2 1 8 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1995
2   Yvonne Reynders (BEL) 4 2 1 7 1959, 1961, 1963, 1966
3   Marianne Vos (NED) 3 6 0 9 2006, 2012, 2013
4   Keetie van Oosten-Hage (NED) 2 3 3 8 1968, 1976
5   Anna van der Breggen (NED) 2 2 0 4 2018, 2020
6   Beryl Burton (GBR) 2 1 0 3 1960, 1967
  Geneviève Gambillon (FRA) 2 1 0 3 1972, 1974
  Leontien van Moorsel (NED) 2 1 0 3 1991, 1993
  Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) 2 1 0 3 2019, 2022
  Lotte Kopecky (BEL) 2 1 0 3 2023, 2024
11   Anna Konkina (URS) 2 0 2 4 1970, 1971
12   Giorgia Bronzini (ITA) 2 0 1 3 2010, 2011

Medalists per nation

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Updated after the 2024 UCI Road World Championships

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Netherlands (NED)1418537
2  France (FRA)105217
3  Belgium (BEL)87419
4  Italy (ITA)661325
5  Great Britain (GBR)53311
6  Germany (GER)42511
7  Soviet Union (URS)371121
8  Sweden (SWE)3238
9  Lithuania (LTU)3227
10  United States (USA)26412
11  Switzerland (SUI)1102
12  Denmark (DEN)1023
13  East Germany (GDR)1012
  Luxembourg (LUX)1012
  Norway (NOR)1012
16  Belarus (BLR)1001
17  Australia (AUS)0527
18  Canada (CAN)0022
19  Finland (FIN)0011
  Poland (POL)0011
  Spain (ESP)0011
Totals (21 entries)646464192

References

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  1. ^ "UCI Road World Championships, Women Elite – Road race" (PDF). UCI. Retrieved 21 September 2015.