The Women's road race of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 29 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the 58th edition of the event, for which Dutch rider Chantal Blaak was the defending champion, having won in 2017. 149 riders from 48 nations entered the competition.
Blaak surrendered the title to her teammate Anna van der Breggen, the reigning Olympic champion, after attacking on the penultimate ascent of the Aldrans–Lans–Igls climb. Having caught the erstwhile leaders a few kilometres later, van der Breggen soloed away from them not long after. Van der Breggen extended her advantage over the remaining and continued on to her first world championship title with a winning margin of three minutes and forty-two seconds. Australia's Amanda Spratt managed to remain clear from the breakaway to take Australia's second consecutive silver medal, while Italy's Tatiana Guderzo – the 2009 world champion – completed the podium, attacking on the final lap from a small group; she finished almost five-and-a-half minutes in arrears of van der Breggen.
Course The race started in Kufstein and headed south-west towards Innsbruck with a primarily rolling route, except for a climb of between Fritzens and Gnadenwald – as had been in the time trial events earlier in the week – with an average 7.1% gradient and maximum of 14% in places. After , the riders crossed the finish line for the first time, before starting three laps of a circuit in length. The circuit contained a climb of , at an average gradient of 5.9% but reaching 10% in places, from the outskirts of Innsbruck through Aldrans and Lans towards Igls. After a short period of flat roads, the race descended through Igls back towards Innsbruck and the finish line in front of the Tyrolean State Theatre. At , the 2018 women's road race was the longest in the championships' history, surpassing the previous record of in 2017.
Qualification Qualification was based mainly on the UCI World Ranking by nations as of 12 August 2018. 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 (for both elite and under-23 riders) were also able to take part.
Continental champions Champion Name Note Outgoing World Champion Competed Asian Champion Pan American Champion African Champion Did not compete Asian Under-23 Champion European Champion European Under-23 Champion Oceanian Champion
UCI World Ranking by Nations Rankings as at 12 August 2018.
Rank Nation Points 1 7123.71 2 3644.91 3 3521.43 4 3069.14 5 2025.60 6 1947.98 7 1747.12 8 1577.81 9 1539.32 10 1262.62 Rank Nation Points 11 1241.74 12 1122.47 13 1110.21 14 1110 15 950 16 910 17 907.57 18 891 19 623.33 20 597.60
Participating nations 149 cyclists from 48 nations were entered in the women's road race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Final classification Of the race's 149 entrants, 81 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Anna van der Breggen 2 Amanda Spratt + 3' 42" 3 Tatiana Guderzo + 5' 26" 4 Emilia Fahlin + 6' 13" 5 Małgorzata Jasińska + 6' 13" 6 Karol-Ann Canuel + 6' 17" 7 Annemiek van Vleuten + 7' 05" 8 Amy Pieters + 7' 05" 9 Lucinda Brand + 7' 17" 10 Ruth Winder + 7' 17" 11 Rasa Leleivytė + 7' 17" 12 Katarzyna Niewiadoma + 7' 17" 13 Elisa Longo Borghini + 7' 17" 14 Sara Poidevin + 7' 17" 15 Anastasiia Iakovenko + 7' 17" 16 Megan Guarnier + 7' 17" 17 Ashleigh Moolman + 7' 17" 18 Clara Koppenburg + 7' 17" 19 Margarita Victoria García + 7' 17" 20 Erica Magnaldi + 7' 17" 21 Katie Hall + 7' 17" 22 Jolanda Neff + 7' 17" 23 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig + 7' 22" 24 Lucy Kennedy + 7' 31" 25 Leah Kirchmann + 8' 18" 26 Dani Rowe + 8' 18" 27 Arlenis Sierra + 8' 18" 28 Sofie De Vuyst + 8' 18" 29 Stine Borgli + 8' 18" 30 Polona Batagelj + 8' 18" 31 Coryn Rivera + 8' 18" 32 Hanna Nilsson + 8' 18" 33 Urša Pintar + 8' 18" 34 Eider Merino Cortazar + 8' 18" 35 Shara Gillow + 8' 18" 36 Sina Frei + 8' 18" 37 Annika Langvad + 8' 18" 38 Edwige Pitel + 8' 18" 39 Yevheniya Vysotska + 8' 18" 40 Julie Van de Velde + 8' 18" 41 Sophie Wright + 8' 36" 42 Kelly Van den Steen + 9' 00" 43 Ingrid Lorvik + 9' 00" 44 Chantal Blaak + 9' 00" 45 Hannah Barnes + 10' 58" 46 Liane Lippert + 10' 58" 47 Georgia Williams + 11' 01" 48 Grace Brown + 11' 01" 49 Omer Shapira + 11' 14" 50 Githa Michiels + 12' 32" 51 Alison Jackson + 12' 48" 52 Liliana Moreno + 13' 01" 53 Ane Santesteban + 13' 01" 54 Brodie Chapman + 13' 01" 55 Maria Novolodskaya + 13' 10" 56 Olga Shekel + 13' 46" 57 Lorena Llamas + 14' 05" 58 Elena Pirrone + 14' 05" 59 Angelika Tazreiter + 14' 26" 60 Ellen van Dijk + 14' 29" 61 Juliette Labous + 14' 29" 62 Anabel Yapura + 14' 29" 63 Sofia Bertizzolo + 14' 29" 64 Dani Christmas + 14' 51" 65 Špela Kern + 14' 51" 66 Grace Anderson + 14' 51" 67 Urška Žigart + 14' 55" 68 Anna Plichta + 16' 05" 69 Janneke Ensing + 16' 05" 70 Diana Klimova + 18' 04" 71 Amalie Dideriksen + 18' 04" 72 Soraya Paladin + 18' 04" 73 Audrey Cordon-Ragot + 18' 04" 74 Sara Bergen + 18' 20" 75 Stephanie Subercaseaux + 18' 44"
Rank Rider Country Time 76 Paula Patiño + 18' 44" 77 Natalya Saifutdinova + 18' 44" 78 Caroline Bohé + 18' 44" 79 Eri Yonamine + 20' 47" 80 Jeanne Korevaar + 22' 33" 81 Sarah Rijkes + 23' 06" Marta Lach Alice Sharpe DNF Tayler Wiles DNF Lisa Brennauer DNF Anna Henderson DNF Annabelle Dreville DNF Sara Penton DNF Ana Maria Covrig DNF Mónika Király DNF Antri Christoforou DNF Pernille Mathiesen DNF Mikayla Harvey DNF Katherine Maine DNF Pu Yixian DNF Amiliya Iskakova DNF Trixi Worrack DNF Elena Cecchini DNF Charlotte Becker DNF Eugénie Duval DNF Aude Biannic DNF Leah Thomas DNF Lotta Lepistö DNF Jelena Erić DNF Eyeru Tesfoam Gebru DNF Kathrin Hammes DNF Varvara Fasoi DNF Anna Potokina DNF Katarzyna Wilkos DNF Alicia González Blanco DNF Nguyễn Thị Thật DNF Aurela Nerlo DNF Emma Cecilie Norsgaard DNF Nicole Hanselmann DNF Hiromi Kaneko DNF Vita Heine DNF Susanne Andersen DNF Tereza Medveďová DNF Claire Faber DNF Teniel Campbell DNF Leung Wing Yee DNF Ana Sanabria DNF Miyoko Karami DNF Faina Potapova DNF Anne-Sophie Harsch DNF Rotem Gafinovitz DNF Alice Cobb DNF Maja Perinović DNF Cristina Martínez DNF Tatiana Jaseková DNF Sarah Roy DNF Tiffany Cromwell DNF Alexis Ryan DNF Tetyana Ryabchenko DNF Katrine Aalerud DNF Martina Ritter DNF Kseniya Dobrynina DNF Tereza Korvasová DNF Viivi Puskala DNF Kaat Hannes DNF Camila Coelho DNF Clemilda Fernandes DNF Valerie Demey DNF Christa Riffel DNF Elne Owen DNF Heidy Bernal DNF Mosana Debesay DNF Leung Hoi-wah DNF Rudina Baku DNF
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