The Women's road race of the 2016 UCI Road World Championships took place in and around Doha, Qatar on 15 October 2016. The course of the race was with the start and finish in Doha. Lizzie Deignan was the defending champion, having won the world title in 2015. Deignan was unable to defend her title, as she finished fourth in the bunch sprint finish.
The gold medal and rainbow jersey went to 20-year-old Danish rider Amalie Dideriksen, who became the youngest rider in a decade to win the title, and only the fifth rider to win both the junior and elite world titles, having won the junior title in 2013 and 2014. She finished ahead of Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands, while the bronze medal went to Finland's Lotta Lepistö.
Course The race started at the Qatar Foundation in Education City before the race made its way towards The Pearl Island, with being completed before the first passage of the finish line. Thereafter, seven laps of were completed before the race's conclusion.
Schedule All times are in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00). Date Time Event15 October 2016 12:45–16:20 Women's road race
Participating nations 146 cyclists from 46 nations were entered in the women's road race, with 142 riders taking the start. The numbers of cyclists per nation are shown in parentheses.
Final classification Of the race's 146 entrants, 103 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Amalie Dideriksen 2 Kirsten Wild 3 Lotta Lepistö s.t. 4 Lizzie Deignan s.t. 5 Marta Bastianelli s.t. 6 Roxane Fournier s.t. 7 Chloe Hosking s.t. 8 Sheyla Gutiérrez s.t. 9 Joëlle Numainville s.t. 10 Jolien D'Hoore s.t. 11 Emilie Moberg s.t. 12 Lisa Brennauer s.t. 13 Katarzyna Pawłowska s.t. 14 Leah Kirchmann s.t. 15 Christine Majerus s.t. 16 Coryn Rivera s.t. 17 Sara Mustonen s.t. 18 Mia Radotić s.t. 19 Rasa Leleivytė s.t. 20 Barbara Guarischi + 4" 21 Miho Yoshikawa + 4" 22 Marianne Vos + 4" 23 Alison Jackson + 4" 24 Jelena Erić + 4" 25 Barbora Průdková + 4" 26 Ashleigh Moolman + 4" 27 Megan Guarnier + 4" 28 Christina Perchtold + 4" 29 Carmen Small + 4" 30 Alexis Ryan + 4" 31 Eugenia Bujak + 4" 32 Amy Pieters + 4" 33 Polona Batagelj + 4" 34 Alena Amialiusik + 4" 35 Katarzyna Niewiadoma + 4" 36 Maria Giulia Confalonieri + 10" 37 Aude Biannic + 12" 38 Nicolle Bruderer + 12" 39 Katrine Aalerud + 12" 40 Olena Pavlukhina + 12" 41 Samantha Sanders + 12" 42 Diana Peñuela + 12" 43 Hanna Solovey + 12" 44 Yusseli Mendivil + 12" 45 Urša Pintar + 12" 46 Alice Barnes + 12" 47 Julie Leth + 12" 48 Tiffany Cromwell + 12" 49 Emma Johansson + 12" 50 Chantal Blaak + 12" 51 Katrin Garfoot + 12" 52 Stephanie Pohl + 12" 53 Annemiek van Vleuten + 12" 54 Natalya Saifutdinova + 16" 55 Sara Penton + 18" 56 Dani King + 18" 57 Eileen Roe + 18" 58 Heidi Dalton + 18" 59 Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen + 18" 60 Huang Ting-ying + 18" 61 Emilia Fahlin + 18" 62 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig + 18" 63 Sarah Rijkes + 18" 64 Yumi Kajihara + 18" 65 Alicia González Blanco + 18" 66 Kaat Van der Meulen + 18" 67 Chantal Hoffmann + 18" 68 Valerie Demey + 18" 69 Lauren Kitchen + 22" 70 Romy Kasper + 22" 71 Karol-Ann Canuel + 22" 72 Mieke Kröger + 22" 73 Trixi Worrack + 27"
Rank Rider Country Time 74 Tatiana Guderzo + 27" 75 Lotte Kopecky + 30" 76 Hannah Barnes + 39" 77 Olga Shekel + 39" 78 Rosa Törmänen + 39" 79 Abby-Mae Parkinson + 39" 80 Lisa Klein + 39" 81 Elise Maes + 39" 82 Annasley Park + 42" 83 Lauren Stephens + 42" 84 Anna Plichta + 42" 85 Ellen van Dijk + 45" 86 Eri Yonamine + 45" 87 Anna van der Breggen + 1' 00" 88 Audrey Cordon + 1' 00" 89 Elisa Longo Borghini + 1' 00" 90 Elena Cecchini + 1' 00" 91 Sara Bergen + 1' 00" 92 Gracie Elvin + 1' 00" 93 Roxane Knetemann + 1' 43" 94 Sofie De Vuyst + 1' 43" 95 Anisha Vekemans + 2' 30" 96 Wahazit Kidane + 3' 42" 97 Meng Zhaojuan + 3' 42" 98 Amber Neben + 6' 46" 99 Sarah Roy + 6' 46" 100 Eugénie Duval + 6' 46" 101 Nicole Hanselmann + 10' 31" 102 Alba Teruel Ribes + 10' 31" 103 Paz Bash + 11' 48" Annie Foreman-Mackey Loren Rowney DNF Rotem Gafinovitz DNF Alexandra Nessmar DNF Varvara Fasoi DNF Allie Dragoo DNF Marta Lach DNF Laura Vainionpää DNF Alexandra Chekina DNF Guo Hong DNF Phetdarin Somrat DNF Anriette Schoeman DNF Nguyễn Thị Thật DNF Coralie Demay DNF Laura Massey DNF Valeriya Kononenko DNF Nikola Nosková DNF Anastasiia Iakovenko DNF Svetlana Vasilieva DNF Pascale Jeuland DNF Margarita Syrodoeva DNF Antonia Gröndahl DNF Makhabbat Umutzhanova DNF Wogahta Gebrehiwet DNF Ebtissam Mohamed DNF Mossana Debesai DNF Sofía Arreola DNF Silvija Latožaitė DNF Kelly Kalm DNF Alicja Ratajczak DNF Eden Bekele DNF Carla Oberholzer DNF Tsega Gebre Beyene DNF Najla Aljeraiwi DNF Zanele Tshoko DNF Sun Jiajun DNF Noura Alameeri DNF Nada Aljeraiwi DNF Olga Zabelinskaya Giorgia Bronzini Yang Qianyu DNS Beatha Ingabire DNS Eyeru Tesfoam DNS
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