2016 UCI Road World Championships – Women's Road Race
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The Women's road race 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 ...
took place in and around
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, Qatar on 15 October 2016. The course of the race was with the start and finish in Doha.
Lizzie Deignan Elizabeth Mary Deignan (née Armitstead; born 18 December 1988) is an English professional world champion track and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was the 2015 World road race champion. Deignan is ...
was the defending champion, having won the world title in
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. Deignan was unable to defend her title, as she finished fourth in the bunch sprint finish. The gold medal and rainbow jersey went to 20-year-old Danish rider Amalie Dideriksen, who became the youngest rider in a decade to win the title, and only the fifth rider to win both the junior and elite world titles, having won the junior title in
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and
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. She finished ahead of
Kirsten Wild Kirsten Carlijn Wild (born 15 October 1982) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2021, for eight professional teams. During her track cycling career, Wild rode at the Summer Olympic Games in 2012 ...
of the Netherlands, while the bronze medal went to Finland's
Lotta Lepistö Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who rides for Finnish amateur team Henttala Development Team. She has won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times, consecutively between 201 ...
.


Course

The race started at the
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in Education City before the race made its way towards
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, with being completed before the first passage of the finish line. Thereafter, seven laps of were completed before the race's conclusion.


Schedule

All times are in Arabia Standard Time ( UTC+03:00).


Participating nations

146 cyclists from 46 nations were entered in the women's road race, with 142 riders taking the start. The numbers of cyclists per nation are shown in parentheses. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


Final classification

Of the race's 146 entrants, 103 riders completed the full distance of .


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2016 UCI Road World Championships - Women's road race Women's road race UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race 2016 in women's road cycling