The Women's team time trial of the
2016 UCI Road World Championships
The 2016 UCI Road World Championships took place in Doha, Qatar, in October 2016. The championships was moved from the traditional September to October to avoid extreme hot and blustery weather. The event consisted of a road race, a team time tr ...
was a cycling event that took place on 9 October 2016 in
Doha, Qatar.
won the race at an average speed of , 48.24 seconds faster than the German team .
The bronze medal went to from Germany, almost 2 minutes behind .
Amongst the winning riders for ,
Evelyn Stevens won her fourth team time trial world championships (after 2012, 2013 and 2014), while
Ellen van Dijk (after 2012 and 2013) and
Karol-Ann Canuel
Karol-Ann Canuel (born 18 April 1988) is a Canadian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2021 for the , and teams.
Career
In October 2015 it was announced that Canuel would join for 2016 after two seasons with , re ...
(after 2014 and 2015) won their third titles and
Chantal Blaak took her second (after 2014).
Course
The race started at the
Lusail Sports Complex
Lusail ( ar, لوسيل, , ) is the second-largest city in Qatar, located on the coast, in the southern part of the municipality of Al Daayen. Lusail is located about north of the city centre of Doha, just north of the West Bay Lagoon, on over ...
and finished at
The Pearl Island
The Pearl Island ( ar, جزيرة اللؤلؤة, jazirat alluwlua) in Doha, Qatar, is an artificial island with an area of nearly four square kilometers. It is the first land in Qatar to be available for freehold ownership by foreign national ...
, after a flat course of . There were intermediate time checks after and .
Qualification
The following
UCI Women's Teams in the
UCI Team Ranking as of 15 August 2016 were invited to take part.
Teams in bold elected to compete in the race.
Preview
Only eight teams were at the start of the race.
The previous four editions were won by the former team by different riders each year.
Race
The race took place in heat, with not a great atmosphere, criticised by several teams and riders.
, with
Ellen van Dijk as the main engine,
were second at the first intermediate time point, 9.21 seconds behind after . Relative to the other teams, accelerated afterwards; the team was 24 seconds faster in the second part of the race relative to and was 15 seconds faster at the second intermediate time point. Finally was 48.24 seconds faster than at the finish line and almost two minutes faster than .
Final classification
References
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Women's team time trial
UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial
2016 in women's road cycling