2017 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

Cycling race

Cycling race
Women's road race
2017 UCI Road World Championships
Rainbow jersey
Rainbow jersey
Race details
Dates23 September 2017
Stages1 in Bergen, Norway
Distance152.8 km (94.95 mi)
Winning time4h 06' 30"[1]
Medalists
   Gold Netherlands Chantal Blaak (NED)
   Silver Australia Katrin Garfoot (AUS)
   Bronze Denmark Amalie Dideriksen (DEN)
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The Women's road race of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships is a cycling event that took place on 23 September 2017 in Bergen, Norway.[2] It was won by Chantal Blaak of the Netherlands, ahead of Australian Katrin Garfoot and the defending champion, Amalie Dideriksen of Denmark.[3]

Course

The race started and finished on the Festplassen in Bergen, with the riders completing eight laps of a circuit 19.1 kilometres (11.9 miles) in length.[4] The main feature of the circuit was the climb of Salmon Hill, about 7 kilometres (4.3 miles) into the lap; the climb was 1.5 kilometres (0.93 miles) long at an average gradient of 6.4%. At 152.8 kilometres (94.9 miles), the 2017 women's road race was the longest in the championships' history, surpassing the previous record of 140.05 kilometres (87.02 miles) in 2013.[5]

Qualification

Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 15 August 2017. The first five nations in this classification qualified seven riders to start, the next ten nations qualified six riders to start and the next five nations qualified five riders to start.[6] All other nations had the possibility to send three riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.[7]

Continental champions

Champion Name Note
Outgoing World Champion  Amalie Dideriksen (DEN) Competed
African Champion  Aurelie Halbwachs (MRI)
Asian Champion  Yang Qianyu (HKG)
European Champion  Marianne Vos (NED)
Pan American Champion  Paola Muñoz (CHI)
Oceanian Champion  Lisen Hockings (AUS) Did not compete

UCI World Ranking by Nations

Rankings as at 15 August 2017.

Rank Nation Points
1  Netherlands 4629.5
2  Italy 2655
3  Australia 2300.25
4  United States 2093
5  Great Britain 1759.5
6  Poland 1714.5
7  Belgium 1600.5
8  Denmark 1238
9  Germany 1202.5
10  Canada 1195.25
Rank Nation Points
11  Finland 992
12  South Africa 959
13  France 879.5
14  Norway 638.5
15  Spain 580.75
16  Sweden 578.75
17  Cuba 522
18  Luxembourg 467
19  Russia 431
20  Belarus 408

Participating nations

153 cyclists from 47 nations were entered in the women's road race, however Cuba's sole representative Marlies Mejías did not start the race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.[1]

  •  Argentina (2)
  •  Australia (7)
  •  Austria (3)
  •  Azerbaijan (1)
  •  Belgium (4)
  •  Brazil (1)
  •  Canada (6)
  •  Chile (2)
  •  Colombia (3)
  •  Cuba (1) (did not start)
  •  Cyprus (1)
  •  Czech Republic (1)
  •  Denmark (7)
  •  Ethiopia (2)
  •  Finland (2)
  •  France (6)
  •  Germany (6)
  •  Great Britain (7)
  •  Greece (1)
  •  Hong Kong (3)
  •  Hungary (2)
  •  Ireland (1)
  •  Israel (3)
  •  Italy (7)
  •  Japan (2)
  •  Kazakhstan (3)
  •  Lithuania (3)
  •  Luxembourg (4)
  •  Mauritius (1)
  •  Mexico (2)
  •  Netherlands (8)
  •  New Zealand (2)
  •  Norway (6)
  •  Paraguay (1)
  •  Poland (6)
  •  Romania (1)
  •  Russia (5)
  •  Serbia (1)
  •  Singapore (1)
  •  Slovakia (1)
  •  Slovenia (3)
  •  South Africa (2)
  •  Spain (6)
  •  Sweden (5)
  •   Switzerland (3)
  •  Ukraine (1)
  •  United States (7)

Final classification

Of the race's 153 entrants, 77 riders completed the full distance of 152.8 kilometres (94.9 miles).[1]

Rank Rider Country Time
1 Chantal Blaak  Netherlands 4h 06' 30"
2 Katrin Garfoot  Australia + 28"
3 Amalie Dideriksen  Denmark + 28"
4 Annemiek van Vleuten  Netherlands + 28"
5 Katarzyna Niewiadoma  Poland + 28"
6 Christine Majerus  Luxembourg + 28"
7 Susanne Andersen  Norway + 28"
8 Anna van der Breggen  Netherlands + 28"
9 Emilia Fahlin  Sweden + 28"
10 Elena Cecchini  Italy + 28"
11 Pauline Ferrand-Prévot  France + 28"
12 Leah Kirchmann  Canada + 28"
13 Lucinda Brand  Netherlands + 28"
14 Hannah Barnes  Great Britain + 28"
15 Ellen van Dijk  Netherlands + 28"
16 Rasa Leleivytė  Lithuania + 28"
17 Sheyla Gutiérrez  Spain + 28"
18 Coryn Rivera  United States + 28"
19 Sarah Roy  Australia + 28"
20 Dani King  Great Britain + 28"
21 Linda Villumsen  New Zealand + 28"
22 Urša Pintar  Slovenia + 28"
23 Gracie Elvin  Australia + 28"
24 Shara Gillow  Australia + 28"
25 Martina Ritter  Austria + 28"
26 Janneke Ensing  Netherlands + 28"
27 Polona Batagelj  Slovenia + 28"
28 Olga Zabelinskaya  Russia + 28"
29 Vita Heine  Norway + 28"
30 Ann-Sophie Duyck  Belgium + 28"
31 Paula Patiño  Colombia + 28"
32 Margarita Victoria García  Spain + 28"
33 Karol-Ann Canuel  Canada + 28"
34 Íngrid Drexel  Mexico + 28"
35 Eugenia Bujak  Poland + 28"
36 Hanna Nilsson  Sweden + 28"
37 Élise Delzenne  France + 28"
38 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig  Denmark + 36"
39 Tatiana Guderzo  Italy + 36"
40 Audrey Cordon  France + 37"
41 Amanda Spratt  Australia + 38"
42 Lizzie Deignan  Great Britain + 38"
43 Lisa Brennauer  Germany + 1' 19"
44 Ramona Forchini   Switzerland + 1' 19"
45 Amy Pieters  Netherlands + 1' 19"
46 Giorgia Bronzini  Italy + 1' 19"
47 Rossella Ratto  Italy + 1' 34"
48 Marianne Vos  Netherlands + 1' 50"
49 Hayley Simmonds  Great Britain + 2' 31"
50 Lisa Klein  Germany + 2' 31"
51 Eri Yonamine  Japan + 2' 31"
52 Trixi Worrack  Germany + 2' 31"
53 Diana Peñuela  Colombia + 3' 53"
54 Rachel Neylan  Australia + 4' 01"
55 Romy Kasper  Germany + 4' 01"
56 Eider Merino Cortazar  Spain + 4' 18"
57 Anastasiia Iakovenko  Russia + 4' 43"
58 Alison Jackson  Canada + 4' 43"
59 Chloe Hosking  Australia + 4' 43"
60 Georgia Williams  New Zealand + 4' 43"
61 Lauren Stephens  United States + 4' 43"
62 Nikola Nosková  Czech Republic + 4' 43"
63 Stine Borgli  Norway + 5' 51"
64 Camilla Møllebro  Denmark + 5' 51"
65 Olga Shekel  Ukraine + 5' 51"
66 Pernille Mathiesen  Denmark + 5' 57"
67 Elinor Barker  Great Britain + 6' 36"
68 Lex Albrecht  Canada + 8' 38"
69 Sara Bergen  Canada + 9' 37"
70 Omer Shapira  Israel + 9' 37"
71 Ruth Winder  United States + 9' 37"
72 Sofia Bertizzolo  Italy + 9' 37"
73 Amber Neben  United States + 13' 06"
74 Kirsti Lay  Canada + 14' 02"
75 Kseniya Dobrynina  Russia + 14' 02"
76 Eugénie Duval  France + 14' 52"
77 Aude Biannic  France + 14' 52"
Rider Country Time
Charlotte Becker  Germany DNF
Katie Hall  United States DNF
Claudia Lichtenberg  Germany DNF
Emilie Moberg  Norway DNF
Makhabbat Umutzhanova  Kazakhstan DNF
Tayler Wiles  United States DNF
Julie Leth  Denmark DNF
Alba Teruel Ribes  Spain DNF
Špela Kern  Slovenia DNF
Barbara Benkó  Hungary DNF
Linda Indergand   Switzerland DNF
Ashleigh Moolman  South Africa DNF
Juliette Labous  France DNF
Anna Plichta  Poland DNF
Ewelina Szybiak  Poland DNF
Katrine Aalerud  Norway DNF
Antri Christoforou  Cyprus DNF
Alice Barnes  Great Britain DNF
Melissa Lowther  Great Britain DNF
Jolien D'Hoore  Belgium DNF
Elisa Balsamo  Italy DNF
Elisa Longo Borghini  Italy DNF
Mónika Király  Hungary DNF
Ana Sanabria  Colombia DNF
Agua Marina Espínola  Paraguay DNF
Jelena Erić  Serbia DNF
Małgorzata Jasińska  Poland DNF
Nicole Hanselmann   Switzerland DNF
Marta Lach  Poland DNF
Wing Yee Leung  Hong Kong DNF
Anna Potokina  Russia DNF
Maria Yapura Plaza  Argentina DNF
Olena Pavlukhina  Azerbaijan DNF
Varvara Fasoi  Greece DNF
Christina Perchtold  Austria DNF
Natalya Saifutdinova  Kazakhstan DNF
Elise Maes  Luxembourg DNF
Lydia Boylan  Ireland DNF
Lourdes Oyarbide  Spain DNF
Alicia González Blanco  Spain DNF
Yumi Kajihara  Japan DNF
Kelly Van den Steen  Belgium DNF
Megan Guarnier  United States DNF
Lotta Lepistö  Finland DNF
Ingrid Moe  Norway DNF
Claire Faber  Luxembourg DNF
Sara Penton  Sweden DNF
Eyeru Tesfoam Gebru  Ethiopia DNF
Daiva Tušlaitė  Lithuania DNF
Christina Siggaard  Denmark DNF
Trine Schmidt  Denmark DNF
Amiliya Iskakova  Kazakhstan DNF
Estefania Pilz  Argentina DNF
Chantal Hoffmann  Luxembourg DNF
Alexandra Nessmar  Sweden DNF
Aurelie Halbwachs  Mauritius DNF
Alžbeta Pavlendová  Slovakia DNF
Brenda Santoyo  Mexico DNF
Ana Maria Covrig  Romania DNF
Rotem Gafinovitz  Israel DNF
Kathrin Schweinberger  Austria DNF
Justina Jovaišytė  Lithuania DNF
Serene Lee  Singapore DNF
Svetlana Kuznetsova  Russia DNF
Aranza Villalón  Chile DNF
Pang Yao  Hong Kong DNF
Chane Jonker  South Africa DNF
Yang Qianyu  Hong Kong DNF
Nicolle Borges  Brazil DNF
Paola Muñoz  Chile DNF
Laura Vainionpää  Finland DNF
Jessy Druyts  Belgium DNF
Hilla Yizhaq  Israel DNF
Selam Amha  Ethiopia DNF
Julia Karlsson  Sweden DNF
Marlies Mejías  Cuba DNS

References

  1. ^ a b c "Final Results / Résultat final: Women Elite Road Race / Course en ligne Femmes Elite". Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 23 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  2. ^ "World Championships WE – Road Race". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Chantal Blaak nets elite women's road race world title despite crash". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Countdown to the road races". Bergen2017.no. Bergen 2017 AS. 23 September 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017. The women's race will go a distance of 152,8 km, including 8 laps on the 19.1 km long circuit.
  5. ^ "Technical Guide – 2017 UCI Road World Championships" (PDF). UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 16 September 2017. p. 51. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Qualification system for the 2017 UCI Road World Championships" (PDF). UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 19 July 2017. p. 6. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Quota allocation for the Bergen 2017 UCI Road World Championships" (PDF). UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 27 August 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.

External links

  • Road race page at Bergen 2017 website
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UCI Road World Champions – Women's road race