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2013 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Team Time Trial
The Men's team time trial of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 22 September 2013 in the region of Tuscany, Italy. The course of the race was from the town of Montecatini Terme to the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an .... were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title by 0.81 seconds over , with completing the podium in third place. Final classification References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:2013 UCI Road World Championships - Men's team time trial Men's team time trial 2013 UCI World Tour UCI Road World Championships – Men's team time trial 2013 in men's road cycling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 UCI Road World Championships
The 2013 UCI Road World Championships took place in Tuscany, Italy, between 22 and 29 September 2013. The Championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 86th Road World Championships, the 13th in Italy and the first time that the event took place in Tuscany. The different events finished near the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence. Host cities for the starts were Florence, Pistoia, Lucca and Montecatini Terme. Marketing Tickets for crucial points of the course in Florence and Fiesole could be bought in advance. Ticket prices ranged from 20 Euro to 100 Euro for seating near the finish line of the men's road race. Related to the Championships, many events were organized including expositions, exhibitions, a cyclosportive, and the Bicycle Film Festival. Poste italiane made a stamp dedicated to the Championships in 3.290,000 pieces and Chianti Classico produced wine bottles with special Championships labels. Mascot Pinocchio The organizers s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Velits
Peter Velits (born 21 February 1985 in Bratislava) is a Slovakian former professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights included third place overall and a stage win at the 2010 Vuelta a España, the 2007 World Under-23 Road Race Championships gold and the 2012 Tour of Oman overall victory. Velits was also known as strong time-trialist, winning three consecutive team time trials as a part of in 2012 and 2013 and riding on the in 2014 UCI Road World Championships. His twin brother, Martin Velits also competed professionally, having raced on the same teams every year until the end of the 2013 season. After two seasons with the team, Velits left at the end of the 2013 season to join the . He remained with the team until he retired at the end of the 2016 season. Major results ;2003 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st Time trial ;2004 : 7th Overall Tour d'Egypte : 10th Overall UAE Emirates Post Tour : 10th Grand Prix Bradlo ;2005 : 1st Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cummings
Stephen Philip Cummings (born 19 March 1981) is an English former racing cyclist Cycle sport is Competition, competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing ..., who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the , , , , and squads. Biography Cummings won the team pursuit at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles and at the Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He also took bronze in the individual pursuit at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. At the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympics in Athens Cummings and the Great Britain team won the silver medal in the Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's team pursuit, team pursuit and achieved a time of 3:59.866 in the heats. In 1999, riding for Birkenhead North End CC as a junior, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraint Thomas
Geraint Howell Thomas, (; born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam , Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and road rider, with notable victories in the velodrome, in one-day racing and in stage racing. On the track, he has won three World Championships ( 2007, 2008, and 2012), and two Olympic gold medals ( 2008 and 2012), while on the road he won the 2018 Tour de France becoming the first Welshman and British-born rider to win it. His early successes were in track cycling, in which he was a specialist in the team pursuit. He won three World Championships and was Olympic gold medallist twice, in 2008 and 2012. Thomas had an early win on the road at the 2004 Paris–Roubaix Juniors and later had a senior victory at the 2010 British National Road Race Championships. Leaving track cycling to focus solely on the road, he subsequently found su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanstantsin Sivtsov
Kanstantsin Sivtsov (or Siutsou ( be, Канстанцін Віктаравіч Сіўцоў; Łacinka: Kanstancin Viktaravič Siŭcoŭ; born 9 August 1982) is a Belarusian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Itera, Lokomotiv, , , , , , and squads. He retired after provisionally being suspended from the sport following an adverse analytical finding for erythropoietin (EPO). Career Sivtsov was born in the Belarusian city of Gomel in 1982. He won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships. Sivtsov joined for the 2007 season, and rode the Tour de France, finishing 32nd overall. Team High Road (2008–11) Siutsou moved to for 2008, where he took his first stage race overall victory at the Tour de Georgia, and came 16th overall in the Tour de France. In the 2009 Giro d'Italia, Sivtsov won his first two Grand Tour stages, the team time trial on stage one and a successful solo breakaway in stage eight. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Porte
Richard Julian Porte (born 30 January 1985) is an Australian professional Road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His successes include wins at 8 UCI World Tour, World Tour stage races: Paris–Nice in 2013 Paris–Nice, 2013 and 2015 Paris–Nice, 2015, the Volta a Catalunya in 2015 Volta a Catalunya, 2015, the Tour de Romandie in 2017 Tour de Romandie, 2017, the Tour Down Under in 2017 Tour Down Under, 2017 and 2020 Tour Down Under, 2020, the Tour de Suisse in 2018 Tour de Suisse, 2018 and the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2021 Critérium du Dauphiné, 2021. In Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, he won the Young rider classification in the Giro d'Italia, young rider classification at the 2010 Giro d'Italia, his first year at UCI ProTour level, and finished on the podium of the 2020 Tour de France, but was also frequently hit by illnesses and injuries. Personal life Porte was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1985. He was educated at St Patric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasil Kiryienka
Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka ( be, Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka; born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors, , , and squads. He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . Career Early years Born in Rechytsa, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kiryienka won his first national time trial championship in 2002. His early career focused mainly on the track, where he won the Points Race at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Later that season Kiryienka won Stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia, a mountainous affair leading to Presolana, after spending the day on the attack and registering more than 6 hours and a half in the saddle. He attacked his six breakaway companions at the foot of the Monte Para climb and soloed to the finish for the win, by a margin of over four minutes. Caisse d'Epargne (2009–2012) Kiryie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Froome
Christopher Clive Froome [kɹɪs fɹuːm], (born 20 May 1985) is a Kenyan/British Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has won seven Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours: four editions of the Tour de France (in 2013 Tour de France, 2013, 2015 Tour de France, 2015, 2016 Tour de France, 2016 and 2017 Tour de France, 2017), one Giro d'Italia (2018 Giro d'Italia, 2018) and the Vuelta a España twice (2011 Vuelta a España, 2011Awarded in 2019 following the disqualification of original winner Juan José Cobo and 2017 Vuelta a España, 2017). He has also won several other stage races, and the Velo d'Or three times. Froome has also won two Olympic bronze medals in Individual time trial, road time trials, in Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial, 2012 and Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's road time trial, 2016, and took bronze in the 2017 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial, 2017 World Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Edvald Boasson Hagen (born 17 May 1987) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProTeam . He was ranked as no. 3 in the world by UCI as of 31 August 2009, when he was 22 years old. He is known as an all-rounder, having won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships in 2012, 2015 and 2016. He is also a ten-time winner of the Norwegian National Time Trial Championships. Professional career Maxbo–Bianchi (2006–07) Boasson Hagen joined the Norwegian continental team in 2006 and in his first season in the continental circuits he took eight wins including three stages of the Tour de l'Avenir. In 2007 he enjoyed a successful season and scored fifteen wins, ending up second in number of victories behind ProTour sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. But, after the disqualification of the Italian in May 2008 for doping, Alessandro Petacchi lost 5 stage wins in the 2007 Giro resulting in Boasson Hagen having the most victories. Boasson Hagen won the overall c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svein Tuft
Svein Tuft (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the , , , and teams. Tuft was the winner of the 2006–07 UCI America Tour, and was a thirteen-time champion at the Canadian road cycling championships: twice in the road race, and eleven times in the time trial. Personal life He was born in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. His grandfather, Arne Tuft, was an Olympic cross-country skier from Norway. Tuft dropped out of school at 15 to travel and camp with his dog named Bear. He spent the next several years mountain climbing and going on long bike trips, including a 4,000 mile trip to Alaska as a teenager. While racing with , Tuft lived in a trailer behind team owner Kevin Cunningham's house near Langley. In the adjacent trailer was Tuft's teammate Christian Meier. The team referred to the two as the trailer park boys. Racing career Symmetrics (2005–2008) Tuft first raced in 1999, at the British Columb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Mouris
Jens Mouris (born 12 March 1980) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist. Born in Amsterdam, Mouris represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he took part in the team pursuit together with John den Braber, Robert Slippens and Wilco Zuijderwijk. They ended up in seventh position after being lapped by Ukraine in the quarter finals. Four years later Mouris qualified for the same disciplines to participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This time the new team featuring Levi Heimans, Peter Schep and Jeroen Straathof came fifth. Major results ;1998 : 2nd Points race, UCI Junior Track World Championships ;1999 : 1st Ronde van de Haarlemmermeer ;2000 : 1st Westfriese Dorpenomloop : 2nd Time trial, Dutch National Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd Kilo, Dutch National Track Championships ;2001 : 1st Joseph Sunde Memorial : 2nd Time trial, Dutch National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Ronde van Noord-Holland ;2002 : 1st Grote Rivierenprijs : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Lancaster
Brett Lancaster (born 15 November 1979) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016. Born in Shepparton, Victoria, Lancaster started cycle racing at the age of 14 in 1993. He spent four years riding for before moving to in July 2006. In 2009 and 2010 he rode for , and rode for in 2011. His greatest successes as a road cyclist were winning the prologue of the Giro d'Italia, and thus wearing the race general classification leader's pink jersey. He set a time of 1' 20" for the race against the clock, the shortest prologue in the 88-year history of the event. Brett Lancaster is the first member of the Italian registered team, , to ever claim the pink jersey. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team pursuit (with Graeme Brown, Bradley McGee, and Luke Roberts) in world record-breaking time of 3:58.233. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2005 Australia Day Hono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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