World Road Cycling Championships podium history | 2023 edition
Road Race: Elite Men Road Race | Elite Women Road Race
Time Trial: Team Time Trial mixed Relay | Elite Women Time Trial | Elite Men Time Trial
Sunday, September 29: Elite Men World Championship Road Race, 273.9 km
Winterthur - Zurich: 1 Winterthur lap + 7 city circuit laps
Tadej Pogacar is World Road Champion. He is the first rider to win the triple crown of the Giro/Tour/Worlds since Stephen Roche did it in 1987. Photo: Fabrice Coffrin/AFP
Bill and Carol McGann's book The Story of the Tour de France, 2019: A Year of New Faces is available in both Kindle eBook and audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.
Weather at the finish city of Zurich at 2:20 PM, local time: 15C (59F), cloudy, with the wind from the east at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.
The race: Guillaume Boivin (Canada) did not start. After crashing early in the race Julian Alaphilippe (France) abandoned. Mikel Landa (Spain) abadoned soon thereafter.
Here's the UCI's race report:
The 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships concluded in spectacular fashion on Sunday with Tadej Pogačar claiming the final rainbow jersey of the nine-day event in Zurich, Switzerland. The Slovenian won the Men Elite road race with a monumental ride marked by a daring attack with more than 100km remaining. His victory caps off a historic season, including victories at the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France.
Joining a breakaway that emerged earlier on the seven laps of the city circuit - and that included Pogačar’s fellow Slovenian Jan Tratnik - Pogačar dropped the last rival remaining on his wheel, France’s Pavel Sivakov, with 51.5km to go and rode to victory on his own. After 273.9km of racing (with 4,470m of elevation) starting from Winterthur, Australia’s Ben O’Connor took the silver medal (+34’’) with the 2023 UCI World Champion, Dutchman Mathieu Van der Poel (+58’’), winning the sprint for third place.
Into the last hour of the race. Remco Evenepoel and I think Quinn Simmons are here in the third group, 1min 24sec behind an escaped Tadej Pogacar.
“I cannot believe what just happened, after this kind of season,” Pogačar reacted. “I put a lot of pressure on myself for today. The race unfolded pretty quick and there was a dangerous breakaway in the front and I maybe did a stupid attack but luckily Jan was there with me and I never gave up. It’s an incredible day.
“I don’t know what I was thinking, I went with the flow and luckily I made it, but it was super tough,” he added after yet another historic feat.
Everyone knew it was coming. Tadej Pogacar attacks with France's Pavel Sivakov trying to hold his wheel. Pogacar was quickly alone. Photo: Peter Dejong/AP.
A couple of weeks after his most recent win, in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Pogačar’s title is his 23rd victory in a season he began early March with an 81km solo victory in the Strade Bianche.
He delivers the first Elite UCI rainbow jersey for Slovenia, after previous titles for Janez Brajkovič (Men Under 23 individual time trial in 2004) and Matej Mohorič (Men Junior road race 2012 and Men Under 23 road race 2013), and notably claims a ‘Triple Crown’ - Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, UCI World Championships - only achieved previously by Belgium’s Eddy Merckx (1974) and Ireland’s Stephen Roche (1987).
Complete results:
273.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.410 km/hr
1 | Tadej Pogačar | Slovenia | 6hr 27min 30sec |
2 | Ben O'Connor | Australia | @ 34sec |
3 | Mathieu van der Poel | Netherlands | 0:58 |
4 | Toms Skujiņš | Latvia | s.t. |
5 | Remco Evenepoel | Belgium | s.t. |
6 | Marc Hirschi | Switzerland | s.t. |
7 | Ben Healy | Ireland | 1:00 |
8 | Enric Mas | Spain | 1:01 |
9 | Quinn Simmons | United States | 2:18 |
10 | Romain ardet | France | s.t. |
11 | Roger Adrià | Spain | s.t. |
12 | Bauke Mollema | Netherlands | s.t. |
13 | Mads Pedersen | Denmark | 3:52 |
14 | Markus Hoelgaard | Norway | s.t. |
15 | Georg Zimmermann | Germany | s.t. |
16 | Oscar Onley | Great Britain | s.t. |
17 | Brandon McNulty | United States | s.t. |
18 | Jai Hindley | Australia | s.t. |
19 | Kevin Vermaerke | United States | s.t. |
20 | Mathias Vacek | Czech Republic | s.t. |
21 | Archie Ryan | Ireland | 6:04 |
22 | Valentin Madouas | France | s.t. |
23 | Frederik Wandahl | Denmark | s.t. |
24 | Magnus Cort | Denmark | 6:36 |
25 | Giulio Ciccone | Italy | s.t. |
26 | Juan Ayuso | Spain | s.t. |
27 | Attila Valter | Hungary | s.t. |
28 | Florian Lipowitz | Germany | s.t. |
29 | Felix Grossschartner | Austria | s.t. |
30 | Adam Yates | Great Britain | s.t. |
31 | Wilco Kelderman | Netherlands | s.t. |
32 | Aleksandr Vlasov | Neutral Athlete | s.t. |
33 | David Gaudu | France | s.t. |
34 | Matteo Jorgenson | United States | s.t. |
35 | Pavel Sivakov | France | 6:40 |
36 | Simon Geschke | Germany | 7:01 |
37 | Stefan Küng | Switzerland | s.t. |
38 | Romain Grégoire | France | s.t. |
39 | Neilson Powless | United States | 12:09 |
40 | Harold Tejada | Colombia | s.t. |
41 | Tobias Halland Johannessen | Norway | s.t. |
42 | Rui Costa | Portugal | s.t. |
43 | Lorenzo Rota | Italy | s.t. |
44 | Pier-André Côté | Canada | s.t. |
45 | Edoardo Zambanini | Italy | s.t. |
46 | Nick Schultz | Australia | s.t. |
47 | Magnus Sheffield | United States | s.t. |
48 | Diego Ulissi | Italy | s.t. |
49 | Sam Oomen | Netherlands | s.t. |
50 | Georg Steinhauser | Germany | s.t. |
51 | Maxim Van Gils | Belgium | s.t. |
52 | Mikkel Frølich Honoré | Denmark | s.t. |
53 | Natnael Tesfatsion | Eritrea | s.t. |
54 | Michael Woods | Canada | s.t. |
55 | Nelson Oliveira | Portugal | s.t. |
56 | Johannes Staune-Mittet | Norway | s.t. |
57 | Thomas Pidcock | Great Britain | s.t. |
58 | Alex Aranburu | Spain | s.t. |
59 | Carlos Rodríguez | Spain | s.t. |
60 | Daniel Felipe Martínez | Colombia | s.t. |
61 | Rudy Molard | France | s.t. |
62 | Pablo Castrillo | Spain | s.t. |
63 | Mattia Cattaneo | Italy | s.t. |
64 | Primož Roglič | Slovenia | s.t. |
65 | Bob Jungels | Luxembourg | s.t. |
66 | Filippo Zana | Italy | s.t. |
67 | Eddie Dunbar | Ireland | s.t. |
68 | Simon Yates | Great Britain | s.t. |
69 | Antonio Tiberi | Italy | 17:39 |
70 | Larry Warbasse | United States | s.t. |
71 | Krists Neilands | Latvia | s.t. |
72 | Lukáš Kubiš | Slovakia | 19:23 |
73 | Reuben Thompson | New Zealand | s.t. |
74 | Edgar David Cadena | Mexico | s.t. |
75 | Andreas Leknessund | Norway | s.t. |
76 | Sebastian Schönberger | Austria | s.t. |
77 | Łukasz Owsian | Poland | s.t. |
78 | Márton Dina | Hungary | s.t. |
79 | Einer Rubio | Colombia | s.t. |
80 | Thomas Silva Guillermo | Uruguay | s.t. |
81 | Eric Antonio Fagúndez | Uruguay | s.t. |
Elite Men Road Race Course Map & Profile:
2024 Men's World Championship Road Race photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Remco Evenepoel gets his bike before the race start.
Pre-race ceremonies. The Italian team is presented.
It's about time to race.
Looks like a nice day for a bike race.
The peloton speeds along.
The fans were out in force.
Jan Tratnik leads fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
Gone. Pogacar and Sivakov have left the pack behind.
Van der Poel leads the chase.
Tadej Pogacar has left the best bicycle racers in the world behind to win the World Championships.
Giro, Tour and Worlds. A rare and special accomplishment for Tadej Pogacar.
Ben O'Connor finished second.
Mathieu van der Poel finishes third, ahead of Toms Skujins.
Right after the race finish, the crowd around Pogacar.
Everyone is wearing jackets and Pogacar has to pour water over himself to cool down.
The podium, from left: Ben O'Connor (2nd), Tadej Pogacar (1st) & Mathieu van der Poel (3rd).
Tadej Pogacar will be easy to spot for a year in his bright rainbow jersey.
Saturday, September 28: Elite Women's World Championship Road Race, 154.1 km
Ustar - Zurich: 1 lap around Greifensee + 4 city Circuit laps.
Lotte Kopecky is Champion of the World.
Les Woodland's book The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories: A Five Ring Circus is available in print, Kindle eBook & audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.
Weather at the finish city of Zurich at 2:30 PM, local time: 12C (53F), rain, with the wind from the west at 5 km/hr (3 mph). There is a 77% chance that the rain will continue, dropping to 41% at 4:00 PM.
The race: Before the start there was a minute's silence in memory of Muriel Furrer, the Swiss cyclist who died yesterday. The championships are continuing with the blessings of Furrer's family.
Rotem Gafinovitz (Israel) did not start.
Here's the UCI's race report:
A rainy day in Zurich, Switzerland, delivered two spectacular rainbows when Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky powered to a second successive title in the Women Elite road race while the Netherlands’ Puck Pieterse took the Women Under 23 title at the UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships.
Kopecky is the first rider to win the event two years in a row since Marianne Vos did so in 2012 and 2013. She’s also won six UCI World Champion titles on the track.
The USA’s Chloé Dygert and Italy’s Elisa Longo Borghini completed the Elite podium. Australia’s Neve Bradbury and Germany’s Antonia Niedermaier took the Women Under 23 silver and bronze medals behind Pieterse.
Kopecky dedicated her first words after the race to Switzerland’s Muriel Furrer, who passed away on Friday after suffering serious injuries in a fall during Thursday’s Women Junior road race: “First of all, I want to bring my condolences to the family of Muriel,” said Kopecky.
She then described the ups and downs she experienced during Saturday’s road race before sprinting to victory.
A rainy day in Zurich. Here the peloton is about halfway into the race. Photo: Chris Auld
“From three laps to go, I was actually freezing,” the Belgian said. “But I tried to keep my head as cool as possible and I didn’t have any troubles but on the longer one (climb), when Demi [Vollering] went, I had some difficulties but I tried to keep my own pace and come back. In the end, it was a lot of mind games. A rider [Elisa Longo Borghini] came from the back with speed and Demi replied immediately, which was perfect for me.”
The 154.1km race opened up early and the relentless pace led to some very intense racing on the four laps of the closing city circuit (26.9km). Oranje jerseys were highly visible, recognisable not only due to their distinctive orange colour, but also the aggressive tactics of the riders wearing them.
Three Dutchwomen - Demi Vollering, Marianne Vos and Riejanne Markus - were among the nine athletes at the front into the last 10 kilometres. Vollering gave it her all to get rid of her rivals, but there were still six riders in the sprint for victory. Kopecky proved to be the strongest.
In the group sprinting for 10th place, Pieterse (13th) was the first Under 23 rider to cross the line, claiming the rainbow jersey ahead of Bradbury (15th) and Niedermaier (18th), also part of the same group.
Complete results:
154.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 37.672 km/hr
1 | Lotte Kopecky | Belgium | 4hr 5min 26sec |
2 | Chloé Dygert | United States | s.t. |
3 | Elisa Longo Borghini | Italy | s.t. |
4 | Liane Lippert | Germany | s.t. |
5 | Demi Vollering | Netherlands | s.t. |
6 | Ruby Roseman-Gannon | Australia | s.t. |
7 | Justine Ghekiere | Belgium | @ 1min 6sec |
8 | Marianne Vos | Netherlands | s.t. |
9 | Riejanne Markus | Netherlands | s.t. |
10 | Blanka Vas | Hungary | 3:00 |
11 | Noemi Rüegg | Switzerland | s.t. |
12 | Juliette Labous | France | s.t. |
13 | Puck Pieterse | Netherlands | s.t. |
14 | Magdeleine Vallieres | Canada | s.t. |
15 | Neve Bradbury | Australia | s.t. |
16 | Caroline Andersson | Sweden | s.t. |
17 | Katarzyna Niewiadoma | Poland | s.t. |
18 | Antonia Niedermaier | Germany | s.t. |
19 | Mischa Bredewold | Netherlands | s.t. |
20 | Sarah Gigante | Australia | 3:21 |
21 | Anna Henderson | Great Britain | 4:19 |
22 | Ava Holmgren | Canada | s.t. |
23 | Elise Chabbey | Switzerland | 4:21 |
24 | Urška Žigart | Slovenia | s.t. |
25 | Niamh Fisher-Black | New Zealand | 9:01 |
26 | Évita Muzic | France | s.t. |
27 | Ingvild Gåskjenn | Norway | 10:10 |
28 | Carina Schrempf | Austria | s.t. |
29 | Yuliia Biriukova | Ukraine | s.t. |
30 | Grace Brown | Australia | s.t. |
31 | Lauren Stephens | United States | s.t. |
32 | Alice Towers | Great Britain | s.t. |
33 | Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig | Denmark | s.t. |
34 | Paula Patiño | Colombia | s.t. |
35 | Kristen Faulkner | United States | s.t. |
36 | Ashleigh Moolman | South Africa | s.t. |
37 | Mie Bjørndal Ottestad | Norway | s.t. |
38 | Brodie Chapman | Australia | s.t. |
39 | Katrine Aalerud | Norway | s.t. |
40 | Elena Hartmann | Switzerland | s.t. |
41 | Olivia Baril | Canada | s.t. |
42 | Gaia Realini | Italy | 10:16 |
43 | Franziska Koch | Germany | 11:01 |
44 | Christine Majerus | Luxembourg | s.t. |
45 | Dominika Włodarczyk | Poland | s.t. |
46 | Cédrine Kerbaol | France | s.t. |
47 | Teniel Campbell | Trinidad & Tobago | s.t. |
48 | Usoa Ostolaza | Spain | s.t. |
49 | Eneritz Vadillo | Spain | s.t. |
50 | Alice Maria Arzuffi | Italy | s.t. |
51 | Clara Emond | Canada | s.t. |
52 | Lotte Claes | Belgium | s.t. |
53 | Sara Martín | Spain | s.t. |
54 | Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset | Norway | s.t. |
55 | Fariba Hashimi | Afghanistan | s.t. |
56 | Erica Magnaldi | Italy | s.t. |
57 | Marion Bunel | France | s.t. |
58 | Barbara Malcotti | Italy | s.t. |
59 | Olha Kulynych | Ukraine | 11:07 |
60 | Soraya Paladin | Italy | s.t. |
61 | Elinor Barker | Great Britain | 15:17 |
62 | Ruth Edwards | United States | 18:31 |
63 | Mireia Benito | Spain | s.t. |
64 | Alison Jackson | Canada | 21:05 |
65 | Fiona Mangan | Ireland | s.t. |
66 | Yanina Kuskova | Uzbekistan | s.t. |
67 | Ana Vitória Magalhães | Brazil | s.t. |
68 | Paula Blasi | Spain | s.t. |
69 | Edseth Marte Berg | Norway | s.t. |
70 | Anastasia Carbonari | Latvia | s.t. |
71 | Nina Berton | Luxembourg | s.t. |
72 | Jasmin Liechti | Switzerland | s.t. |
73 | Eri Yonamine | Japan | s.t. |
74 | Yurina Kinoshita | Japan | s.t. |
75 | Stina Kagevi | Sweden | s.t. |
76 | Rebecca Koerner | Denmark | s.t. |
77 | Solbjørk Minke Anderson | Denmark | s.t. |
78 | Julia Borgström | Sweden | s.t. |
79 | Julie De Wilde | Belgium | 21:27 |
80 | Margot Vanpachtenbeke | Belgium | s.t. |
81 | Anabel Yapura Fernanda | Argentina | 26:57 |
Elite Women Course Map & Profile:
Course map & profile
Women's World Championship Road Race photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Climbing and descending in the rain. The winner of this race would be a worthy champion.
Rounding a corner in the rain.
One of the French team riders
A Dutch rider
Lotte Kopecky is clearly the day's best rider.
Fourth place Liane Lippert finishes.
Winner Kopecky just after the race.
Dutch rider Marianne Vos (8th place today) warming up after a wet, cold day on the road.
The podium, from left: Chloé Dygert (2nd), Lotte Kopecky (1st) & Elisa Longo Borghini (3rd)
Kopecky's teammates celebrate the Belgian victory.
Wednesday, September 25: Team Time Trial Mixed Relay, Zurich - Zurich, 53.7 km
The Austalian women on their way to first place. Sirotti photo
Les Woodland's book Tour of Flanders: The Inside Story - The rocky roads of the Ronde van Vlaanderen is available in print, Kindle eBook and audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.
The race: Here's the UCI's report:
The team time trial mixed relay, the final time trial event of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships, was dominated by Australia’s Michael Matthews, Ben O’Connor, Jay Vine, Grace Brown, Brodie Chapman and Ruby Roseman-Gannon on Wednesday. With a time of 1h12’52’’ to cover 53.7km around Zurich (Switzerland), they powered to the gold medal in the most thrilling fashion.
Marco Brenner, Miguel Heidemann, Maximilian Schachmann, Franziska Koch, Liane Lippert and Antonia Niedermaier took silver for Germany with a gap of 0.85 seconds. Italy completed the podium with Edoardo Affini, Mattia Cattaneo, Filippo Ganna, Elisa Longo Borghini, Soraya Paladin and Gaia Realini (+8’’).
Each national team took on two laps (one for the three men, then one for the three women) on the 26.9km city circuit that will see the peloton battle for the rainbow jersey in the road races from Thursday until Sunday.
The Germans took the strongest start, but the Australians led the way after the first loop. Italians got in the mix and all three teams were within 5’’ after 38km… Brown and her teammates eventually sealed the deal with the closest margin, delivering a new UCI world title for Sunday’s women’s individual time trial (ITT) winner just before retiring.
Here's the complete podium: Sirotti photo
“I think I’m feeling a little bit greedy, I need a few more rainbow jerseys in my closet,” Grace Brown said with a smile. She is the first rider to win both the ITT and the team time trial mixed relay in the same edition of the UCI Road Worlds. “This one is really nice, doing it with the whole Aussie crew,” she added.
“It was a hard one,” Michael Matthews said. “Jay [Vine] put me to the sword straight away: on that first climb, I think we averaged 650 watts from bottom to the top… There wasn’t much recovery so we just tried to stay together as much as possible as a team. We came through with the fastest time and then we knew we had a strong women’s team to finish it off.”
Complete results: 53.7 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.218 km/hr
1 | Australia | 1hr 12min 52sec |
Grace Brown | ||
Brodie Chapman | ||
Ben O'Connor | ||
Ruby Roseman-Gannon | ||
Jay Vine | ||
Michael Matthews | ||
2 | Germany | @1sec |
Marco Brenner | ||
Miguel Heidemann | ||
Franziska Koch | ||
Liane Lippert | ||
Antonia Niedermaier | ||
Maximilian Schachmann | ||
3 | Italy | 0:08 |
Edoardo Affini | ||
Mattia Cattaneo | ||
Filippo Ganna | ||
Elisa Longo Borghini | ||
Soraya Paladin | ||
Gaia Realini | ||
4 | France | 0:24 |
Audrey Cordon-Ragot | ||
Cédrine Kerbaol | ||
Juliette Labous | ||
Bruno Armirail | ||
Thibault Guernalec | ||
Benjamin Thomas | ||
5 | Denmark | 2:06 |
Mikkel Bjerg | ||
Magnus Cort | ||
Emma Norsgaard | ||
Uttrup Ludwig Cecilie | ||
Rebecca Koerner | ||
Mikkel Frølich Honoré | ||
6 | United States | 2:17 |
Emily Ehrlich | ||
Brandon McNulty | ||
Amber Neben | ||
Neilson Powless | ||
Lauren Stephens | ||
Kevin Vermaerke | ||
7 | Canada | 2:42 |
Olivia Baril | ||
Pier-André Côté | ||
Ava Holmgren | ||
Mara Roldan | ||
Jonas Walton | ||
Derek Gee | ||
8 | Switzerland | 2:52 |
Elise Chabbey | ||
Noemi Rüegg | ||
Stefan Bissegger | ||
Johan Jacobs | ||
Fabian Weiss | ||
Jasmin Liechti | ||
Spain | 3:50 | |
9 | Markel Beloki | |
Mireia Benito | ||
Paula Blasi | ||
David De La Cruz | ||
Raúl García Pierna | ||
Eneritz Vadillo | ||
10 | Austria | 4:51 |
Christina Schweinberger | ||
Kathrin Schweinberger | ||
Carina Schrempf | ||
Philipp Hofbauer | ||
Felix Ritzinger | ||
Adrian Stieger | ||
11 | Ukraine | 7:00 |
Yuliia Biriukova | ||
Vitaliy Gryniv | ||
Olha Kulynych | ||
Olga Shekel | ||
Semen Simon | ||
Daniil Yakovlev | ||
12 | Estonia | 8:29 |
Rait Ärm | ||
Madis Mihkels | ||
Laura Lizette Sander | ||
Aidi Gerde Tuisk | ||
Norman Vahtra | ||
Elina Tasane | ||
13 | World Cycling Centre | 10:39 |
Awet Aman | ||
Yafiet Mulugeta | ||
Amir Arsalan Ansari | ||
Tesfoam Gebru | ||
Lize-Ann Louw | ||
Nika Bobnar | ||
14 | China | 10:47 |
Zhen Li | ||
Xianjing Lyu | ||
Chengshuo Miao | ||
Xin Tang | ||
Luyao Zeng | ||
Qiuying Zhou | ||
15 | Mongolia | 12:29 |
Tegsh-Bayar Batsaikhan | ||
Enkhmaa Enkhtur | ||
Anujin Jinjiibadam | ||
Temuulen Khadbaatar | ||
Jambaljamts Sainbayar | ||
Tserenlkham Solongo | ||
16 | Bulgaria | 12:36 |
Petya Minkova | ||
Martin Papanov | ||
Yordan Petrov | ||
Gergana Stoyanova | ||
Emil Stoynev | ||
Ivana Nikolaeva Tonkova | ||
17 | Ecuador | 13:54 |
Jonathan Klever Caicedo | ||
Jhoffre Polivio Imbaquingo | ||
Miryam Maritza Nuñez | ||
Marcela Itzae Peñafiel | ||
Natalia Vasquez | ||
David Palma Anderson | ||
18 | Rwanda | 14:27 |
Diane Ingabire | ||
Vainqueur Masengesho | ||
Xaverine Nirere | ||
Samuel Niyonkuru | ||
Valentine Nzayisenga | ||
Etienne Tuyizere | ||
19 | Afghanistan | 16:26 |
Qais Haidari | ||
Fariba Hashimi | ||
Yulduz Hashimi | ||
Mohamad Islam Jorat | ||
Ahmad Mirzaye | ||
Marwa Dnf Karimi | ||
20 | Algeria | 30:25 |
Slimane Badlis | ||
Yasmine El Meddah | ||
Nasrallah Mohamed Aissa Essemiani | ||
Nesrine Houili | ||
Imene Maldji | ||
Hamza Mansouri |
Sunday, September 22: Elite Women Individual Time Trial, Gossau - Zurich, 29.9 km
Course map & profile: | Photos
Grace Brown doing what she does best, going faster than any other woman in the world.
Complete results:
29.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.688 km/hr
1 | Grace Brown | Australia | 39min 16.04sec |
2 | Demi Vollering | Netherlands | @ 16.79sec |
3 | Chloé Dygert | United States | 56.42" |
4 | Antonia Niedermaier | Germany | 1min 05.10sec |
5 | Lotte Kopecky | Belgium | 1' 39.44" |
6 | Christina Schweinberger | Austria | 1' 44.14" |
7 | Anna Henderson | Great Britain | 1' 44.39" |
8 | Ellen van Dijk | Netherlands | 1' 47.38" |
9 | Juliette Labous | France | 1' 51.68" |
10 | Amber Neben | United States | 2' 20.33" |
11 | Brodie Chapman | Australia | 2' 26.81" |
12 | Mie Bjørndal Ottestad | Norway | 2' 46.93" |
13 | Elena Hartmann | Switzerland | 2' 49.14" |
14 | Cédrine Kerbaol | France | 2' 49.41" |
15 | Franziska Koch | Germany | 3' 04.53" |
15 | Yuliia Biriukova | Ukraine | 3' 04.53" |
17 | Urška Žigart | Slovenia | 3' 06.43" |
18 | Paula Findlay | Canada | 3' 09.25" |
19 | Vittoria Guazzini | Italy | 3' 11.82" |
20 | Jasmin Liechti | Switzerland | 3' 16.79" |
21 | Emily Ehrlich | United States | 3' 21.70" |
22 | Julie De Wilde | Belgium | 3' 21.85" |
23 | Rebecca Koerner | Denmark | 3' 26.86" |
24 | Teniel Campbell | Trinidad and Tobago | 3' 29.11" |
25 | Marie Schreiber | Luxembourg | 3' 32.13" |
26 | Anniina Ahtosalo | Finland | 3' 41.68" |
27 | Tabea Huys | Austria | 3' 43.67" |
28 | Mireia Benito | Spain | 3' 43.77" |
29 | Stina Kagevi | Sweden | 3' 45.54" |
30 | Olivia Baril | Canada | 3' 45.67" |
31 | Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka | Poland | 3' 47.40" |
32 | Eugenia Bujak | Slovenia | 3' 50.66" |
33 | Nora Jenčušová | Slovakia | 4' 03.93" |
34 | Alberte Greve | Denmark | 4' 26.83" |
35 | Dana Rožlapa | Latvia | 4' 32.72" |
36 | Laura Lizette Sander | Estonia | 4' 53.67" |
37 | Lauren Stephens | United States | 4' 54.64" |
38 | Estefania Herrera Marin | Colombia | 5' 00.27" |
39 | Diana Peñuela | Colombia | 5' 08.43" |
40 | Gaia Masetti | Italy | 5' 29.26" |
41 | Paula Blasi Cairol | Spain | 5' 35.21" |
42 | Fernanda Yapura | Argentina | 5' 37.30" |
43 | Isabelle Carnes | Australia | 5' 39.67" |
44 | Wilma Aintila | Finland | 5' 41.86" |
45 | Floren Scrafton | Bolivia | 5' 43.00" |
46 | Rotem Gafinovitz | Israel | 5' 50.74" |
47 | Leung Wing Yee | Hong Kong | 5' 51.74" |
48 | Agua Marina Espínola | Paraguay | 6' 13.92" |
49 | Yulduz Hashimi | Afghanistan | 6' 32.67" |
50 | Fariba Hashimi | Afghanistan | 6' 37.62" |
51 | Maho Kakita | Japan | 6' 42.27" |
52 | Tang Xin | China | 7' 17.54" |
53 | Zhou Qiuying | China | 7' 24.47" |
54 | Olga Shekel | Ukraine | 7' 32.13" |
55 | Miryam Núñez | Ecuador | 7' 42.44" |
56 | Eyeru Tesfoam Gebru | Ethiopia | 8' 05.34" |
57 | Dewika Mulya Sova | Indonesia | 8' 20.42" |
58 | Neyran Neriman Elden Kosker | Turkey | 8' 38.48" |
59 | Jess Pratt | Malta | 8' 41.99" |
60 | Diane Ingabire | Rwanda | 9' 13.47" |
61 | Ayustina Delia Priatna | Indonesia | 9' 15.77" |
62 | Gergana Stoyanova | Bulgaria | 10' 26.69" |
63 | Anujin Jinjiibadam | Mongolia | 10' 37.00" |
64 | Solongo Tserenlkham | Mongolia | 10' 39.13" |
65 | Iuliana-Alexandra Cioclu | Romania | 12' 04.92" |
66 | Petya Minkova | Bulgaria | 12' 51.12" |
67 | Viktoriya Sidorenko | Azerbaijan | 13' 02.31" |
68 | Hermionne Ahouissou | Benin | 13' 27.48" |
69 | Cătălina Andreea Cătineanu | Romania | 13' 46.09" |
70 | Gissel Andino | Honduras | 13' 57.20" |
Women's time trial course map & profile
Map of the 2024 Women's Time Trial Course.
Profile of the Women's Time Trial Course.
Elite Women's Time Trial photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Chloé Dygert riding to third place.
Second-place Demi Vollering
Winner Grace Brown
Grace Brown after her winning ride.
The podium, from left: Demi Vollering (2nd), Grace Brown (1st) & Chloé Dygert (3rd)
New World Champion Grace Brown
Sunday, September 22: Elite Men Individual Time Trial, Oerlikon - Zurich, 46.1 km
Remco Evenepoel on his way to earning back-to back World Time Trial Championships. Getty Sport photo
Weather at the race city of Zurich at 2:40 PM, local time: 22C (71F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the south at 5 km/hr (3 mph). There is a 1% chance of rain.
The race: Winner Remco Evenepoel has had an impressive run at the World Championships:
2022 Road World Champion
2023 ITT World Champion
2024 ITT Olympic Champion
2024 Road Olympic Champion
2024 ITT World Champion
Here's the report from winner Remco Evenepoel's Team Soudal Quick-Step:
Remco Evenepoel took his third gold medal of the season, this time in Zurich, where he produced a superb ride that confirmed he is one of the finest time trialists in the history of the sport. Last year, Remco became World Champion of the discipline for the first time in his career, and now he repeated that success, less than two months after triumphing at the Olympic Games in Paris, where he signed off an incredible road race – time trial double.
The Soudal Quick-Step rider came at the start on the famous Oerlikon Velodrome – where the Züri-Metzgete used to finish – as the red-hot favourite and didn’t need too much time to show there was a reason of that, setting an early benchmark after a strong first leg of the 46.1km race. Evenepoel kept the power also at the next two intermediate splits, padding his advantage over closest rival Filippo Ganna (Italy) before the fast final segment of the day.
Already victorious in four individual time trials this season, Remco dominated the hilly race around Zurich and concluded with a time of 53:01 thanks to a remarkable 52.15km/h average speed, writing history as he became the first male rider to win the Olympics and Worlds ITT in the same year.
“I’m incredibly happy with the fact I successfully defended my time trial World title! It was a pretty tough day for me, I would go as far as saying it was the hardest time trial of my career, but I was motivated to do my best and I’m proud with the way I rode. I pushed quite hard on the second small climb of the day and I went all-out on the downhill as well. As I said, it wasn’t easy, but now I am so happy that I could pull it off and take gold at the Worlds after doing the same at the Olympics”, said Evenepoel after his great day on Swiss soil.
Complete results:
46.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 52.172 km/hr
1 | Remco Evenepoel | Belgium | 53min 1.98sec |
2 | Filippo Ganna | Italy | @ 6.43sec |
3 | Edoardo Affini | Italy | 54.44" |
4 | Josh Tarling | Great Britain | @ 1min 17.63sec |
5 | Jay Vine | Australia | 1' 24.18" |
6 | Kasper Asgreen | Denmark | 1' 30.11" |
7 | Tobias Foss | Norway | 1' 44.50" |
8 | Stefan Küng | Switzerland | 1' 48.34" |
9 | Victor Campenaerts | Belgium | 1' 55.16" |
10 | Brandon McNulty | United States | 1' 58.03" |
11 | Bruno Armirail | France | 2' 04.17" |
12 | Primož Roglič | Slovenia | 2' 06.52" |
13 | Magnus Sheffield | United States | 2' 08.44" |
14 | Mikkel Bjerg | Denmark | 2' 13.59" |
15 | Nelson Oliveira | Portugal | 2' 35.88" |
16 | Søren Wærenskjold | Norway | 2' 40.29" |
17 | Daan Hoole | Netherlands | 2' 43.83" |
18 | Walter Vargas | Colombia | 2' 55.75" |
19 | Pier-André Côté | Canada | 2' 58.32" |
20 | Miguel Heidemann | Germany | 3' 04.68" |
21 | Thibault Guernalec | France | 3' 13.19" |
22 | Derek Gee | Canada | 3' 16.02" |
23 | Max Schachmann | Germany | 3' 19.09" |
24 | João Almeida | Portugal | 3' 19.15" |
25 | David de la Cruz | Spain | 3' 26.31" |
26 | Raúl García Pierna | Spain | 3' 36.45" |
27 | Mathias Vacek | Czech Republic | 3' 45.98" |
28 | Filip Maciejuk | Poland | 3' 47.00" |
29 | Stefan Bissegger | Switzerland | 4' 04.97" |
30 | Yevgeniy Fedorov | Kazakhstan | 4' 15.99" |
31 | Andreas Miltiadis | Cyprus | 4' 33.19" |
32 | Kaden Hopkins | Bermuda | 4' 37.42" |
33 | Barnabás Peák | Hungary | 5' 17.50" |
34 | Carlos Oyarzún | Chile | 5' 24.38" |
35 | Vitaliy Hryniv | Ukraine | 5' 50.51" |
36 | János Pelikán | Hungary | 5' 59.17" |
37 | Batsaikhany Tegshbayar | Mongolia | 6' 19.97" |
38 | Charles Kagimu | Uganda | 6' 27.00" |
39 | Conor White | Bermuda | 6' 30.25" |
40 | Ognjen Ilić | Serbia | 7' 32.84" |
41 | Sergio Chumil | Guatemala | 7' 43.32" |
42 | Amir Ansari | Refugee Olympic Team | 7' 58.69" |
43 | Igor Chzhan | Kazakhstan | 8' 27.07" |
44 | Miao Chengshuo | China | 8' 30.75" |
45 | Taavi Kannimäe | Estonia | 9' 20.15" |
46 | Martin Papanov | Bulgaria | 9' 54.95" |
47 | Ahmad Wais | Refugee Olympic Team | 9' 55.64" |
48 | Diego de Jesus Mendes | Brazil | 10' 09.29" |
49 | Cory Williams | Belize | 10' 49.50" |
50 | Emil Stoynev | Bulgaria | 11' 36.42" |
51 | Richard Laizer | Tanzania | 14' 10.05" |
52 | Fadhel Al-Khater | Qatar | 14' 53.52" |
53 | Tamin Al-Kuwari | Qatar | 16' 24.49" |
54 | Fred Matute | Honduras | 16' 36.69" |
55 | Francisco Daniel Riveros | Paraguay | 17' 05.26" |
56 | Qais Haidari | Afghanistan | 17' 30.77" |
57 | Ahmad Mirzaee | Afghanistan | 18' 06.77" |
58 | Edward Oingerang | Guam | 20' 53.91 |
59 | Christopher Symonds | Ghana | 23' 24.20" |
Course map & profile:
Map of the Men's Time Trial Course
Profile of the Men's Time Trial Course
Elite Men's Time Trial photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
A rider out on the course next to the Zurichsee
Jay Vine riding to fifth place
Fourth place Joshua Tarling
Third-place Edoardo Affini
Filippo Ganna riding to second place.
Remco Evenepoel properly riding a gold bike and wearing a gold helmet.
A happy podium and another Rainbow Jersey for Remco Evenepoel