2020
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 ...
were held throughout the year of 2020, 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 8 January.
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
green and gold
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The go ...
on the jerseys of Australian national champions.
2020 champions
Men's Elite
Champions in
UCI WorldTeam
A UCI WorldTeam (2015–present), previously UCI ProTeam (2005–2014), is the term used by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to name a cycling team of the highest category in professional road cycling, the UCI World Tour or UCI ProTour
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Women's Elite
Champions in UCI Women's teams
References
{{2020 in road cycling
National Cycling Championships, 2020
National road cycling championships by year
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