UCI Road World Championships


The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and as of 2012 Team Time Trials.

Events

All the world championship events, are ridden by national teams, not trade teams such as in most other major races. The winner of each category is entitled to wear the rainbow jersey in races of that category until the next championships.
It currently includes the following championships:
Former events:
The first world championships took place in 1921, though the only event that was contested was the Men's Road Race for Amateurs. 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. A men's team time trial, contested by national teams, was introduced in 1962. Beginning in 1972, the team time trial was discontinued in Olympic years only. Individual time trials in all categories were added in 1994, which was also the last year for the original incarnation of the men's team time trial. In 2012, the men's team time trial was reinstated, and a women's team time trial added to the program; both were contested by trade teams. In 2019, the team time trial events for men and women will be replaced by a mixed relay team time trial.
Until 1995, there were separate races for male professional and amateur riders. In 1996, the amateur category was replaced with a category for men under-23 years old with the professional category becoming an open category.
Since 1995, the race has been held towards the end of the European season in late September, usually following the Vuelta a España. Before that, the event had always been a summer race, held in late August or the first week of September.
The world championships are located in a different city or region every year. The event can be held over a relatively flat course which favors cycling sprinters or a hilly course which favors a climbing specialist or all-round. In each case the course is usually held on a circuit of which the riders complete multiple laps.
The world championship road race and two of the three Grand Tours form the Triple Crown of Cycling.

Championships

YearCountryLocation
1961 Berne
1962 Salò di Garda
1963 Ronse
1964 Sallanches
1965San Sebastián
1966 Nürburgring
1967 Heerlen
1968 Imola
1969 Zolder
1970 Leicester
1971 Mendrisio
1972 Gap
1973 Barcelona
1974Montreal
1975 Yvoir
1976 Ostuni
1977San Cristóbal
1978 Nürburgring
1979 Valkenburg
1980 Sallanches
1981Prague
1982 Goodwood
1983 Altenrhein
1984 Barcelona
1985 Giavera del Montello
1986Colorado Springs
1987Villach
1988 Ronse
1989 Chambéry
1990Utsunomiya
1991 Stuttgart
1992 Benidorm
1993Oslo
1994 Agrigento

YearCountryLocation
1995Duitama
1996 Lugano
1997 San Sebastián
1998 Valkenburg
1999 Verona
2000 Plouay
2001Lisbon
2002 Zolder
2003 Hamilton
2004 Verona
2005 Madrid
2006 Salzburg
2007 Stuttgart
2008 Varese
2009 Mendrisio
2010Melbourne
2011 Copenhagen
2012 Valkenburg
2013 Florence
2014 Ponferrada
2015 Richmond
2016Doha
2017 Bergen
2018 Innsbruck
2019 Harrogate
2020 Aigle and Martigny
2021 Bruges and Leuven
2022 Wollongong
2023 Glasgow
2024 Zurich

All-time medal table

Medal table includes only medals achieved in senior events. Mixed nation team events such as the Team Time Trial from 2012 to 2018 are excluded.

Countries