2013 UCI Road World Championships

2013 UCI Road World Championships

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Venue	Tuscany, Italy
Date(s)	22–29 September 2013
Coordinates	43°46′17″N 11°15′15″E
Nations participating	76
Events	12

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

Sponsors of the Championships
Main partners of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships: Mapei Generali
Other partners: Tissot Tacx BMW Limar helmets Conad La Nazione Shimano Aquasilva Ricoh Lilly Terra Group Santini SMS Skoda Corriere dello Sport Enel Sebach Stylgrafix Chianti Classico Giorgio Tesi Gassexpress Prestigio Golden View

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

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

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

Firenze

Pistoia

Montecatini

Lucca

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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

Elite events

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

Under-23 events

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

Junior events

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

Participating nations

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

Albania Algeria Andorra Argentina Australia (31) Austria Azerbaijan (4) Belarus Belgium (36) Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic (18) Denmark Ecuador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia (1) Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hong Kong Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan (2) Kazakhstan Latvia Lebanon (1) Liechtenstein (1) Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malaysia Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Morocco Netherlands (35) Norway New Zealand (13) Panama Paraguay (2) Poland Portugal (9) Qatar (1) Romania Russia Saint Kitts and Nevis (1) San Marino Serbia Slovakia (15) Slovenia Spain South Africa South Korea (2) Sweden Switzerland Syria (1) Thailand (4) Tunisia Turkmenistan Turkey Ukraine United States (29) Uzbekistan (4) Venezuela (9)

Medal table

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				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

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

• Australia: SBS 2 (Internet Broadcast)
• Belgium: Canvas, Eén, La Deux
• Brazil: SporTV
• Canada: Rogers Sportsnet, RDS
• China: CCTV
• Colombia: RCN, Win Sports
• Czech Republic: ČT Sport
• Denmark: TV3+, TV3 Sport 1 (Internet Broadcast)
• France: France 3, beIN Sport
• Hungary: Sport 1
• Israel: Sport 1
• Italy: Rai Sport 2, Rai 3
• Middle East: Al Jazeera
• Japan: NHK BS 1, NHK
• Netherlands: NOS
• Norway: Viasat 4, Viasat Sport
• Pan Asia: Eurosport Asia/Pacific
• Poland: Polsat Sport
• Slovakia: Dvojka
• Slovenia: RTV Slovenia
• South Africa: SuperSport
• South America: Direct TV, TDN
• Sweden: TV10 / Viasat Sport, Viasat 14 HD
• Switzerland: RSI, RTS, SRF
• United Kingdom: BBC Television (Internet Broadcast)
• United States: Universal Sports (Internet Broadcast)
• Worldwide: UCI YouTube channel (Internet Broadcast)

Source^[24]

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External links

• Official website
• Event information and results at the UCI website.