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. It was won by Chantal Blaak of the Netherlands, ahead of Australian Katrin Garfoot and the defending champion, Amalie Dideriksen of Denmark.
Course The race started and finished on the Festplassen in Bergen, with the riders completing eight laps of a circuit in length. The main feature of the circuit was the climb of Salmon Hill, about into the lap; the climb was long at an average gradient of 6.4%. At , the 2017 women's road race was the longest in the championships' history, surpassing the previous record of in 2013.
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. 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.
Continental champions Champion Name Note Outgoing World Champion Competed African Champion Asian Champion European Champion Pan American Champion Oceanian Champion Did not compete
UCI World Ranking by Nations Rankings as at 15 August 2017.
Rank Nation Points 1 4629.5 2 2655 3 2300.25 4 2093 5 1759.5 6 1714.5 7 1600.5 8 1238 9 1202.5 10 1195.25 Rank Nation Points 11 992 12 959 13 879.5 14 638.5 15 580.75 16 578.75 17 522 18 467 19 431 20 408
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.
(did not start)
Final classification Of the race's 153 entrants, 77 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Chantal Blaak 4h 06' 30" 2 Katrin Garfoot + 28" 3 Amalie Dideriksen + 28" 4 Annemiek van Vleuten + 28" 5 Katarzyna Niewiadoma + 28" 6 Christine Majerus + 28" 7 Susanne Andersen + 28" 8 Anna van der Breggen + 28" 9 Emilia Fahlin + 28" 10 Elena Cecchini + 28" 11 Pauline Ferrand-Prévot + 28" 12 Leah Kirchmann + 28" 13 Lucinda Brand + 28" 14 Hannah Barnes + 28" 15 Ellen van Dijk + 28" 16 Rasa Leleivytė + 28" 17 Sheyla Gutiérrez + 28" 18 Coryn Rivera + 28" 19 Sarah Roy + 28" 20 Dani King + 28" 21 Linda Villumsen + 28" 22 Urša Pintar + 28" 23 Gracie Elvin + 28" 24 Shara Gillow + 28" 25 Martina Ritter + 28" 26 Janneke Ensing + 28" 27 Polona Batagelj + 28" 28 Olga Zabelinskaya + 28" 29 Vita Heine + 28" 30 Ann-Sophie Duyck + 28" 31 Paula Patiño + 28" 32 Margarita Victoria García + 28" 33 Karol-Ann Canuel + 28" 34 Íngrid Drexel + 28" 35 Eugenia Bujak + 28" 36 Hanna Nilsson + 28" 37 Élise Delzenne + 28" 38 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig + 36" 39 Tatiana Guderzo + 36" 40 Audrey Cordon + 37" 41 Amanda Spratt + 38" 42 Lizzie Deignan + 38" 43 Lisa Brennauer + 1' 19" 44 Ramona Forchini + 1' 19" 45 Amy Pieters + 1' 19" 46 Giorgia Bronzini + 1' 19" 47 Rossella Ratto + 1' 34" 48 Marianne Vos + 1' 50" 49 Hayley Simmonds + 2' 31" 50 Lisa Klein + 2' 31" 51 Eri Yonamine + 2' 31" 52 Trixi Worrack + 2' 31" 53 Diana Peñuela + 3' 53" 54 Rachel Neylan + 4' 01" 55 Romy Kasper + 4' 01" 56 Eider Merino Cortazar + 4' 18" 57 Anastasiia Iakovenko + 4' 43" 58 Alison Jackson + 4' 43" 59 Chloe Hosking + 4' 43" 60 Georgia Williams + 4' 43" 61 Lauren Stephens + 4' 43" 62 Nikola Nosková + 4' 43" 63 Stine Borgli + 5' 51" 64 Camilla Møllebro + 5' 51" 65 Olga Shekel + 5' 51" 66 Pernille Mathiesen + 5' 57" 67 Elinor Barker + 6' 36" 68 Lex Albrecht + 8' 38" 69 Sara Bergen + 9' 37" 70 Omer Shapira + 9' 37" 71 Ruth Winder + 9' 37" 72 Sofia Bertizzolo + 9' 37" 73 Amber Neben + 13' 06" 74 Kirsti Lay + 14' 02" 75 Kseniya Dobrynina + 14' 02" 76 Eugénie Duval + 14' 52" 77 Aude Biannic + 14' 52"
Rider Country Time Charlotte Becker Katie Hall DNF Claudia Lichtenberg DNF Emilie Moberg DNF Makhabbat Umutzhanova DNF Tayler Wiles DNF Julie Leth DNF Alba Teruel Ribes DNF Špela Kern DNF Barbara Benkó DNF Linda Indergand DNF Ashleigh Moolman DNF Juliette Labous DNF Anna Plichta DNF Ewelina Szybiak DNF Katrine Aalerud DNF Antri Christoforou DNF Alice Barnes DNF Melissa Lowther DNF Jolien D'Hoore DNF Elisa Balsamo DNF Elisa Longo Borghini DNF Mónika Király DNF Ana Sanabria DNF Agua Marina Espínola DNF Jelena Erić DNF Małgorzata Jasińska DNF Nicole Hanselmann DNF Marta Lach DNF Wing Yee Leung DNF Anna Potokina DNF Maria Yapura Plaza DNF Olena Pavlukhina DNF Varvara Fasoi DNF Christina Perchtold DNF Natalya Saifutdinova DNF Elise Maes DNF Lydia Boylan DNF Lourdes Oyarbide DNF Alicia González Blanco DNF Yumi Kajihara DNF Kelly Van den Steen DNF Megan Guarnier DNF Lotta Lepistö DNF Ingrid Moe DNF Claire Faber DNF Sara Penton DNF Eyeru Tesfoam Gebru DNF Daiva Tušlaitė DNF Christina Siggaard DNF Trine Schmidt DNF Amiliya Iskakova DNF Estefania Pilz DNF Chantal Hoffmann DNF Alexandra Nessmar DNF Aurelie Halbwachs DNF Alžbeta Pavlendová DNF Brenda Santoyo DNF Ana Maria Covrig DNF Rotem Gafinovitz DNF Kathrin Schweinberger DNF Justina Jovaišytė DNF Serene Lee DNF Svetlana Kuznetsova DNF Aranza Villalón DNF Pang Yao DNF Chane Jonker DNF Yang Qianyu DNF Nicolle Borges DNF Paola Muñoz DNF Laura Vainionpää DNF Jessy Druyts DNF Hilla Yizhaq DNF Selam Amha DNF Julia Karlsson DNF Marlies Mejías
References
External links Road race page at Bergen 2017 website