The 2013 UCI Road World Championships was the 86th edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It was held from 22 to 29 September 2013 in Tuscany, Italy.Cyclingnews.comUCI confirms 2013 WorldTour calendar, VeloNation (20 September 2012) It was the first time the event took place in Tuscany, and the 13th time the event took place in Italy overall.
The Championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. 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:
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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. Related to the Championships, many events were organized including expositions, exhibitions, a cyclosportive, and the Bicycle Film Festival. Poste italiane made a stamp dedicated to the Championships in 3.290,000 pieces and Chianti Classico produced wine bottles with special Championships labels.
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. 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.Pinokkio wordt mascotte van WK wielrennen 2013, hln.be (26 October 2012)
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. For safety reasons, all schools in Fiesole were closed on 27 and 28 September, because reaching schools was complicated.
Schedule
Date Timings Event Distance Start Finish Team time trial events 22 September 10:00 11:35 Women's teams Pistoia Florence (Nelson Mandela Forum) 14:00 17:10 Men's teams Montecatini Individual time trial events 23 September 10:00 11:25 Junior women Florence (Parco delle Cascine) Florence (Nelson Mandela Forum) 14:00 16:35 Under-23 men Pistoia 24 September 10:00 12:15 Junior men Florence (Parco delle Cascine) 14:30 16:30 Elite women 25 September 13:15 16:40 Elite men Montecatini Road race events 27 September 08:30 10:50 Junior women Florence (Nelson Mandela Forum) Florence (Nelson Mandela Forum) 13:00 17:20 Under-23 men Montecatini 28 September 08:30 12:05 Junior men 14:10 17:50 Elite women 29 September 10:00 16:45 Elite men Lucca
Events summary Elite events
On the first day, the team time trial events were for the second consecutive year won by (women) and (men). The men's squad's victory in the men's team time trial came by 0.81 seconds over . 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. 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 long Via Salviati – with around to go – and soloed to a 15-second victory over Emma Johansson and Rossella Ratto. 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.
Men's eventsMen's road race 7h 25' 44" s.t. + 15"Men's time trial 1h 05' 36.65" + 46.09" + 48.34" 1h 04' 16.81" + 0.81" + 22.55" Women's eventsWomen's road race 3h 44' 00" + 15" + 15"Women's time trial 27' 48.18" + 24.10" + 28.74" 51' 10.69" + 1' 11.09" Orica–AIS + 1' 33.83"
Under-23 events Men's Under-23 EventsMen's under-23 road race 4h 20' 18" + 3" + 10"Men's under-23 time trial 49' 49.97" + 57.11" + 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.
Men's Juniors Events 3h 33' 14" + 3" + 3" 26' 56.83" + 8.66" + 20.97" Women's Juniors Events 2h 32' 23" s.t. + 3" 22' 42.63" + 2.69" + 8.17"
Participating nations 76 nations participated. 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. The number of cyclists per nation (exclusive riders in the team time trials) is shown in parentheses. Participating national federationsClick 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
Place Nation Total 1 3 1 0 4 2 2 0 0 2 3 1 2 2 5 4 1 2 1 4 5 1 1 0 2 6 1 0 2 3 7 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 10 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 12 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 16 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 Total 12 12 12 36
Team time trials are included under the UCI registration country of the team.
Prize money
The UCI assigned premiums in all of the twelve events.
RankMen elitesWomen elitesMen U23Men juniorsWomen juniorsTotalRoad 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 €47,151Time 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 €23,659Team 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
References
External links
Event information and results at the UCI website.