2013 UCI Road World Championships

2013 UCI Road World Championships
Tuscany is located in Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is located in Italy
Tuscany
Tuscany
VenueTuscany, Italy
Date(s)22–29 September 2013
Coordinates43°46′17″N 11°15′15″E / 43.77139°N 11.25417°E / 43.77139; 11.25417
Nations participating76
Events12
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The 2013 UCI Road World Championships took place in Tuscany, Italy, between 22 and 29 September 2013.[1][2]

The Championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 86th Road World Championships, the 13th in Italy and the first time that the event took place in Tuscany. The different events finished near the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence. Host cities for the starts were Florence, Pistoia, Lucca and Montecatini Terme.

Marketing

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Tickets for crucial points of the course in Florence and Fiesole could be bought in advance. Ticket prices ranged from 20 Euro to 100 Euro for seating near the finish line of the men's road race.[3] Related to the Championships, many events were organized including expositions, exhibitions, a cyclosportive, and the Bicycle Film Festival.[4] Poste italiane made a stamp dedicated to the Championships in 3.290,000 pieces and Chianti Classico produced wine bottles with special Championships labels.[5][6]

Mascot Pinocchio

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The organizers showed the mascot for the event, Pinocchio the brainchild of Florentine writer Carlo Collodi, on 26 October 2012. The wooden figure is dressed in a rainbow sweater and a hat with the same motif.[7] The choice of Pinocchio, whose nose grows when he lies, appeared to be significant after the cycling world was rocked by the doping case of Lance Armstrong. The decision for the mascot however, was taken much earlier according to the organizers.[8]

Traveling

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To promote the public transport, more trains ran during the Championships to Florence and a special ticket was produced to ride on all regional trains.[9][10] For safety reasons, all schools in Fiesole were closed on 27 and 28 September, because reaching schools was complicated.[11]

Schedule

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2013 UCI Road World Championships is located in Tuscany
Firenze
Firenze
Pistoia
Pistoia
Montecatini
Montecatini
Lucca
Lucca
Host cities in Tuscany
Date Timings Event Distance Start Finish
Team time trial events
22 September 10:00 11:35 Women's teams 42.79 km (26.59 mi) Pistoia Firenze (Nelson Mandela Forum)
14:00 17:10 Men's teams 57.20 km (35.54 mi) Montecatini
Individual time trial events
23 September 10:00 11:25 Junior women 16.27 km (10.11 mi) Firenze (Parco delle Cascine) Firenze (Nelson Mandela Forum)
14:00 16:35 Under-23 men 43.49 km (27.02 mi) Pistoia
24 September 10:00 12:15 Junior men 22.05 km (13.70 mi) Firenze (Parco delle Cascine)
14:30 16:30 Elite women
25 September 13:15 16:40 Elite men 57.90 km (35.98 mi) Montecatini
Road race events
27 September 08:30 10:50 Junior women 82.85 km (51.48 mi) Firenze (Nelson Mandela Forum) Firenze (Nelson Mandela Forum)
13:00 17:20 Under-23 men 173.19 km (107.62 mi) Montecatini
28 September 08:30 12:05 Junior men 140.05 km (87.02 mi)
14:10 17:50 Elite women
29 September 10:00 16:45 Elite men 272.26 km (169.17 mi) Lucca

Events summary

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Elite events

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The finish of all events

On the first day, the team time trial events were for the second consecutive year won by Specialized–lululemon (women) and Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (men). The men's squad's victory in the men's team time trial came by 0.81 seconds over Orica–GreenEDGE. Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands, who won a gold medal in the women's team time trial, won her second gold medal in the women's time trial. Van Dijk won with an advantage of 24 seconds over Linda Villumsen, who finished on the podium for the fourth successive Championships. Van Dijk became the second Dutch woman to win in the discipline, after Leontien van Moorsel's victories in 1998 and 1999.[12] Tony Martin, who also won with his team a gold medal in the team time trial, won his third successive men's time trial gold medal, beating main rivals Bradley Wiggins and Fabian Cancellara. In the last weekend of the championships, Marianne Vos won her third gold and her eighth medal in the women's road race. With help from Anna van der Breggen who helped close down the breakaway attempts, Vos made her break on the final ascent of the 600 m (2,000 ft) long Via Salviati – with around 5 km (3.1 mi) to go – and soloed to a 15-second victory over Emma Johansson and Rossella Ratto.[13] On the last day of the Championships, Rui Costa from Portugal won the rain-soaked Men's road race as he beat Spain's Joaquim Rodríguez by a bike-length on the finish line, with Alejandro Valverde from Spain taking bronze.[14]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's events
Men's road race[15]
details
Portugal Rui Costa (POR) 7h 25' 44" Spain Joaquim Rodríguez (ESP) s.t. Spain Alejandro Valverde (ESP) + 15"
Men's time trial[16]
details
Germany Tony Martin (GER) 1h 05' 36.65" United Kingdom Bradley Wiggins (GBR) + 46.09" Switzerland Fabian Cancellara (SUI) + 48.34"
Men's team time trial[17]
details
Belgium Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 1h 04' 16.81" Australia Orica–GreenEDGE + 0.81" United Kingdom Team Sky + 22.55"
France Sylvain Chavanel (FRA)
Poland Michał Kwiatkowski (POL)
Germany Tony Martin (GER)
Netherlands Niki Terpstra (NED)
Belgium Kristof Vandewalle (BEL)
Slovakia Peter Velits (SVK)
Australia Luke Durbridge (AUS)
Australia Michael Hepburn (AUS)
South Africa Daryl Impey (RSA)
Australia Brett Lancaster (AUS)
Netherlands Jens Mouris (NED)
Canada Svein Tuft (CAN)
Norway Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
United Kingdom Chris Froome (GBR)
Belarus Vasil Kiryienka (BLR)
Australia Richie Porte (AUS)
Belarus Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR)
United Kingdom Geraint Thomas (GBR)
Women's events
Women's road race[18]
details
Netherlands Marianne Vos (NED) 3h 44' 00" Sweden Emma Johansson (SWE) + 15" Italy Rossella Ratto (ITA) + 15"
Women's time trial
details
Netherlands Ellen van Dijk (NED) 27' 48.18" New Zealand Linda Villumsen (NZL) + 24.10" United States Carmen Small (USA) + 28.74"
Women's team time trial[19]
details
United States Specialized–lululemon 51' 10.69" Netherlands Rabobank–Liv Giant + 1' 11.09" Australia Orica–AIS + 1' 33.83"
Germany Lisa Brennauer (GER)
United Kingdom Katie Colclough (GBR)
United States Carmen Small (USA)
United States Evelyn Stevens (USA)
Netherlands Ellen van Dijk (NED)
Germany Trixi Worrack (GER)
Netherlands Lucinda Brand (NED)
Netherlands Thalita de Jong (NED)
France Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA)
Netherlands Roxane Knetemann (NED)
Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
Netherlands Marianne Vos (NED)
Australia Annette Edmondson (AUS)
Australia Shara Gillow (AUS)
Netherlands Loes Gunnewijk (NED)
Australia Melissa Hoskins (AUS)
Sweden Emma Johansson (SWE)
Australia Amanda Spratt (AUS)

Under-23 events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Under-23 Events
Men's under-23 road race
details
Slovenia Matej Mohorič (SLO) 4h 20' 18" South Africa Louis Meintjes (RSA) + 3" Norway Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) + 10"
Men's under-23 time trial
details
Australia Damien Howson (AUS) 49' 49.97" France Yoann Paillot (FRA) + 57.11" Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen (DEN) + 1' 10.13"

Junior events

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After winning the women's junior time trial at the European Championships, Séverine Eraud won the women's junior time trial at the Road World Championships. European runner-up Igor Decraene won the gold medal in the men's junior time trial. In the women's junior road race won Amalie Dideriksen the sprint from Alexandria Nicholls and Alexandra Manly. The three riders escaped with one other rider on the first lap. Mathieu van der Poel won the men's junior road race. He attacked in the closing stage and soloed to the finish. It was van der Poel's first road world title, having previously won two junior world titles in cyclo-cross, in 2012 and 2013.[20]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Juniors Events
Men's junior road race
details
Netherlands Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 3h 33' 14" Denmark Mads Pedersen (DEN) + 3" Albania Iltjan Nika (ALB) + 3"
Men's junior time trial
details
Belgium Igor Decraene (BEL) 26' 56.83" Denmark Mathias Krigbaum (DEN) + 8.66" United States Zeke Mostov (USA) + 20.97"
Women's Juniors Events
Women's junior road race
details
Denmark Amalie Dideriksen (DEN) 2h 32' 23" Russia Anastasiia Iakovenko (RUS) s.t. Ukraine Olena Demydova (UKR) + 3"
Women's junior time trial
details
France Séverine Eraud (FRA) 22' 42.63" Australia Alexandria Nicholls (AUS) + 2.69" Australia Alexandra Manly (AUS) + 8.17"

Participating nations

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76 nations participated.[21] Two riders from Uganda were on the start list for the men's and women's time trial but did not start. One rider from Iran was registered for the women's team time trial, but did not start.[22] The number of cyclists per nation (exclusive riders in the team time trials) is shown in parentheses.

Participating national federations
Click on a nation to go to the nations' UCI Road World Championships page

Medal table

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Ellen van Dijk from the Netherlands won two gold medals. She won the women's time trial and with Specialized–lululemon the women's team time trial.
Place Nation 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
1  Netherlands 3 1 0 4
2  Belgium 2 0 0 2
3  Australia 1 2 2 5
4  Denmark 1 2 1 4
5  France 1 1 0 2
6  United States 1 0 2 3
7  Germany 1 0 0 1
 Portugal 1 0 0 1
 Slovenia 1 0 0 1
10  Great Britain 0 1 1 2
 Spain 0 1 1 2
12  New Zealand 0 1 0 1
 Russia 0 1 0 1
 South Africa 0 1 0 1
 Sweden 0 1 0 1
16  Albania 0 0 1 1
 Italy 0 0 1 1
 Norway 0 0 1 1
  Switzerland 0 0 1 1
 Ukraine 0 0 1 1
Total 12 12 12 36

Team time trials are included under the UCI registration country of the team.

Prize money

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2013 UCI Road World Championships

The UCI assigned premiums in all of the twelve events.[23]

Rank Men elites Women elites Men U23 Men juniors Women juniors Total
Road races 1 €7,667 €7,667 €3,833 €1,533 €1,533 €22,233
2 €5,367 €5,367 €2,683 €1,150 €1,150 €15,717
3 €3,067 €3,067 €1,533 €767 €767 €9,201
Total €16,101 €16,101 €8,049 €3,450 €3,450 €47,151
Time trials 1 €3,833 €3,833 €3,067 €767 €767 €12,267
2 €2,300 €2,300 €1,533 €383 €383 €6,899
3 €1,633 €1,633 €767 €230 €230 €4,493
Total €7,766 €7,766 €5,367 €1,380 €1,380 €23,659
Team time trials 1 €33,333 €10,666 N/A €43,999
2 €20,833 €6,666 €27,499
3 €16,666 €4,166 €20,832
4 €8,333 €2,500 €10,833
5 €4,166 €1,666 €5,832
Total €83,331 €25,664 €108,995
Total €107,198 €49,531 €13,416 €4,830 €4,830 €179,805

Broadcasting

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Source[24]

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