2016 UCI Road World Championships – Women's Junior Time Trial
The Women's junior time trial of the 2016 UCI Road World Championships took place in and around in Doha, Qatar on 10 October 2016. The course of the race was . The gold medal was won by Dutch rider Karlijn Swinkels, who became the first Dutch rider to win the gold medal in the event. Swinkels finished 7.35 seconds ahead of her closest competitor, European champion Lisa Morzenti of Italy. The bronze medal went to Juliette Labous from France, 14 seconds down on Morzenti and 21.35 seconds in arrears of Swinkels. Qualification Qualification for the event All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part. Schedule All times are in Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3 UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours later than the ...
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Rainbow Jersey
The rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a cycling discipline, since 1927. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue; the same colours that appear in the rings on the Olympic flag. The tradition is applied to all disciplines, including road racing, track racing, cyclo-cross, BMX, Trials and the disciplines within mountain biking. A world champion must wear the jersey when competing in the same discipline, category and speciality for which the title was won. For example, the world road race champion would wear the garment while competing in stage races (except for time trial stages) and one-day races, but would not be entitled to wear it during time trials. Similarly, on the track, the world individual pursuit champion would only wear the jersey when competing in other individual pursuit events. In team ev ...
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