The Women's road race of the
2019 UCI Road World Championships
The 2019 UCI Road World Championships was the 92nd edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It took place between 22 and 29 September 2019 in the historic county of Yorkshire, United Ki ...
was a cycling event that took place on 28 September 2019 in
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have ...
, England. It started in
Bradford and finished in
Harrogate
Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa w ...
, after three laps in Harrogate.
Dutch cyclist
Annemiek van Vleuten
Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UC ...
won the race, after a solo breakaway for more than . Defending champion
Anna van der Breggen
Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for Team Flexpoint, , and . She won the gold medal in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics ...
, also of the Netherlands, finished as runner-up, with Australian cyclist
Amanda Spratt
Amanda Spratt (born 17 September 1987) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
Spratt was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2012, 2016 and 2020 she won the Au ...
finishing in third.
Qualification
Participating nations
152 cyclists from 49 nations were entered in the women's road race, however Luxembourg's
Anne-Sophie Harsch did not start the event.
The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.
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Final classification
Of the race's 152 entrants, 88 riders completed the full distance of .
References
External links
Road race page at the Yorkshire 2019 website
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Women's road race
UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race
2019 in women's road cycling