2019 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Time Trial
The Men's time trial of the 2019 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 25 September 2019 in Harrogate, England. It was the 26th edition of the championship, for which Rohan Dennis of Australia was the defending champion, having won in 2018. 57 riders from 38 nations entered the competition. Dennis successfully defended his title, becoming the first rider since Tony Martin ( 2011–2013) to retain the rainbow jersey for the time trial. Dennis finished 1 minute, 8.93 seconds ahead of the European champion Remco Evenepoel from Belgium. The bronze medal was won by Filippo Ganna of Italy, finishing 2.16 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Patrick Bevin from New Zealand; Ganna finished 1 minute, 55 seconds down on Dennis. Course The race consisted of a route in length, starting from Northallerton and ending in Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historically ...
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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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