The 2017

national road cycling championships National road cycling championships are held annually by host nations in each cycle racing discipline. The annual events can take place at any time of the year. European nations usually holds their annual events in June, during a designed break ...

will be held throughout the year and are organised by the UCI member federations. They began in Australia with the

time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

event (both men and women) on 5 January, as is tradition.

Jerseys

The winner of each national championship wears the national jersey in all their races for the next year in the respective discipline, apart from the

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

and the Olympics, or unless they are wearing a category leader's jersey in a stage race. Most national champion jerseys tend to represent a country's flag or use the colours from it. Jerseys may also feature traditional sporting colours of a country that are not derived from a national flag, such as the

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on the jerseys of Australian national champions.

2017 champions

Men's Elite

Champions in UCI WorldTeams

Women's Elite

Champions in UCI Women's World Tour Teams

References

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