The Women's road race of the
2017 UCI Road World Championships
The 2017 UCI Road World Championships were held in 2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was the 90th UCI Road World Championships and the second to be held in Norway, after the 1993 world championships in Oslo. Chantal Blaak of the Netherlands won the wom ...
is a cycling event that took place on 23 September 2017 in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
, Norway.
It was won by
Chantal Blaak
Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (née Blaak; born 22 October 1989) is a Dutch road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2017 she became world road race champion in Bergen, Norway.
Career Junior career
Van den Broek-B ...
of the Netherlands, ahead of Australian
Katrin Garfoot
Katrin Garfoot (born 8 October 1981) is a German-born Australian former cyclist who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the road time trial. She started cycle racing in 2011, three years after moving to Australia, having previou ...
and the defending champion,
Amalie Dideriksen
Amalie Dideriksen (born 24 May 1996) is a Danish road and track cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Career
She won the junior women's road race at the World Championships in 2013 and 2014 as well as a bronze medal in the scratch race ...
of Denmark.
Course
The race started and finished on the
Festplassen in Bergen, with the riders completing eight laps of a circuit in length. The main feature of the circuit was the climb of Salmon Hill, about into the lap; the climb was long at an average gradient of 6.4%. At , the 2017 women's road race was the longest in the championships' history, surpassing the previous record of in
2013
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Qualification
Qualification was based mainly on the
UCI World Ranking
The UCI men's road racing world rankings are a point system which is used to rank men's road cycling riders. Points are accrued over a rolling 52 weeks in three categories (Individual, Nations and Teams).
Also Year-End rankings exist, based on ...
by nations as of 15 August 2017. The first five nations in this classification qualified seven riders to start, the next ten nations qualified six riders to start and the next five nations qualified five riders to start. All other nations had the possibility to send three riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.
Continental champions
UCI World Ranking by Nations
Rankings as at 15 August 2017.
Participating nations
153 cyclists from 47 nations were entered in the women's road race, however Cuba's sole representative
Marlies Mejías
Marlies Mejías García (born 29 December 1992) is a Cuban road and track cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's Team . At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's Omnium, finishing in 8th place overall.
Major results Road
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Final classification
Of the race's 153 entrants, 77 riders completed the full distance of .
References
External links
Road race page at Bergen 2017 website
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Women's road race
UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race
2017 in women's road cycling