The Women's road race of the 2020 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 26 September 2020 in Imola, Italy. Annemiek van Vleuten was the defending champion.
Anna van der Breggen from the Netherlands became the first rider in 25 years to win both the road race and time trial titles at a single World Championships, after a solo attack. She finished 80 seconds clear of her closest competitors, to win her second world title in three years. The silver medal went to compatriot van Vleuten, who was riding the race with a brace on a fractured wrist – having completed a U-turn on competing in the race – following a crash the week prior at the Giro Rosa. The bronze medal was taken by Italy's Elisa Longo Borghini, losing out to van Vleuten in a two-up sprint.
The race took place on a course, starting and finishing at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a motor racing circuit). Heading out from the Autodromo into the Emilia-Romagna countryside, the course used two climbs with an average gradient of 10% separated by the town of Riolo Terme, before returning to the Autodromo. The women's road race lapped the course five times, making a total of .
Qualification
Participating nations Following the withdrawals of Chloé Dygert and Rotem Gafinovitz after the time trial two days prior to the race, 143 cyclists from 41 nations were listed to start the -long course. Three further riders did not start the race. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
Final classification Of the race's 140 entrants, 105 riders completed the full distance of .
Rank Rider Country Time 1 Anna van der Breggen 4h 09' 57" 2 Annemiek van Vleuten + 1' 20" 3 Elisa Longo Borghini + 1' 20" 4 Marianne Vos + 2' 01" 5 Liane Lippert + 2' 01" 6 Lizzie Deignan + 2' 01" 7 Katarzyna Niewiadoma + 2' 01" 8 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig + 2' 41" 9 Lisa Brennauer + 3' 08" 10 Marlen Reusser + 3' 08" 11 Lauren Stephens + 3' 08" 12 Chantal van den Broek-Blaak + 3' 08" 13 Audrey Cordon-Ragot + 3' 08" 14 Eugenia Bujak + 3' 08" 15 Niamh Fisher-Black + 3' 08" 16 Rasa Leleivytė + 3' 08" 17 Urša Pintar + 3' 08" 18 Margarita Victoria García + 3' 08" 19 Ellen van Dijk + 3' 08" 20 Évita Muzic + 3' 08" 21 Eri Yonamine + 3' 08" 22 Mikayla Harvey + 3' 08" 23 Ane Santesteban + 3' 08" 24 Katrine Aalerud + 3' 08" 25 Anna Shackley + 3' 08" 26 Tayler Wiles + 3' 08" 27 Sandra Levenez + 3' 08" 28 Lucy Kennedy + 3' 08" 29 Kristabel Doebel-Hickok + 3' 08" 30 Alison Jackson + 4' 49" 31 Katia Ragusa + 4' 51" 32 Brodie Chapman + 5' 50" 33 Marta Cavalli + 7' 25" 34 Amy Pieters + 9' 29" 35 Demi Vollering + 9' 29" 36 Hannah Barnes + 9' 29" 37 Coryn Rivera + 10' 16" 38 Špela Kern + 10' 16" 39 Arlenis Sierra + 10' 16" 40 Omer Shapira + 10' 16" 41 Juliette Labous + 10' 16" 42 Sara Poidevin + 10' 16" 43 Aigul Gareeva + 11' 50" 44 Anna Kiesenhofer + 11' 53" 45 Tatiana Guderzo + 12' 56" 46 Georgia Williams + 14' 01" 47 Teniel Campbell + 14' 01" 48 Marta Lach + 14' 01" 49 Maria Novolodskaya + 14' 01" 50 Valerie Demey + 14' 01" 51 Rachel Neylan + 14' 01" 52 Hanna Nilsson + 14' 01" 53 Jesse Vandenbulcke + 14' 01" 54 Kata Blanka Vas + 14' 01" 55 Paula Patiño + 14' 01" 56 Ashleigh Moolman + 14' 01" 57 Yevheniya Vysotska + 14' 01" 58 Elise Chabbey + 14' 01" 59 Leah Kirchmann + 14' 01" 60 Anna Henderson + 14' 01" 61 Emma Cecilie Norsgaard + 14' 01" 62 Christine Majerus + 14' 01" 63 Lizzy Banks + 14' 01" 64 Nikola Nosková + 14' 01" 65 Erica Magnaldi + 14' 01" 66 Karol-Ann Canuel + 14' 01" 67 Soraya Paladin + 14' 01" 68 Sarah Roy + 14' 43" 69 Amber Neben + 15' 08" 70 Susanne Andersen + 15' 13" 71 Stine Borgli + 15' 13" 72 Victorie Guilman + 15' 13"
Rank Rider Country Time 73 Melanie Maurer + 15' 13" 74 Tereza Neumanová + 18' 03" 75 Franziska Koch + 20' 08" 76 Jarmila Machačová + 21' 12" 77 Diana Klimova + 21' 18" 78 Julia Biryukova + 21' 20" 79 Sara Martín + 21' 20" 80 Małgorzata Jasińska + 21' 22" 81 Ariadna Gutiérrez + 22' 57" 82 Lija Laizāne + 22' 57" 83 Carolina Upegui + 22' 57" 84 Anastasiya Kolesava + 23' 42" 85 Karolina Kumięga + 23' 42" 86 Sarah Rijkes + 23' 42" 87 Noemi Rüegg + 23' 42" 88 Eyeru Tesfoam Gebru + 26' 47" 89 Ingrid Lorvik + 26' 47" 90 Amalie Dideriksen + 26' 47" 91 Grace Brown + 26' 47" 92 Floortje Mackaij + 26' 47" 93 Julie Leth + 26' 47" 94 Lone Meertens + 26' 47" 95 Tereza Medveďová + 26' 47" 96 Catalina Soto + 26' 47" 97 Alicia González Blanco + 26' 47" 98 Sandra Alonso + 26' 47" 99 Mieke Kröger + 27' 47" 100 Fien van Eynde + 27' 47" 101 Kathrin Hammes + 27' 47" 102 Mieke Docx + 27' 47" 103 Olivija Baleišytė + 29' 24" 104 Julia Borgström + 30' 06" 105 Urška Žigart + 33' 33" Ruth Winder Gloria Rodríguez DNF Tiffany Cromwell DNF Lisa Nordén DNF Alice Barnes DNF Elena Cecchini DNF Romy Kasper DNF Trixi Worrack DNF Angelika Tazreiter DNF Fernanda Yapura DNF Brenda Santoyo DNF Andrea Ramírez DNF Katarzyna Wilkos DNF Urška Bravec DNF Ann-Sophie Duyck DNF Valeriya Kononenko DNF Shara Gillow DNF Pernille Mathiesen DNF Anna Plichta DNF Birgitte Krogsgaard DNF Daniela Atehortua DNF Magdeleine Vallieres DNF Fatima El Hayani DNF Maria Gaxiola DNF Akvilė Gedraitytė DNF Kerry Jonker DNF Nina Berton DNF Marie-Soleil Blais DNF Mae Lang DNF Bríet Kristý Gunnarsdóttir DNF Agusta Edda Bjornsdóttir DNF Hafdís Sigurðardóttir DNF Claire Faber DNF Martine Gjøs DNF Siham Es Sad DNF Mie Bjørndal Ottestad Alena Amialiusik DNS Olga Zabelinskaya DNS
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