The 2017 UCI Road World Championships were held in 2017 in
Bergen
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,
Norway
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.
It was the 90th UCI Road World Championships and the second to be held in Norway, after the
1993 world championships in
Oslo
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.
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- ...
of the Netherlands won the
women's road race and
Peter Sagan
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of Slovakia won the
men's road race. Sagan became the first man to win three successive world road race championships.
Bidding process
It was announced on 25 September 2014 following a two-day meeting held in conjunction with the
2014 UCI Road World Championships in
Ponferrada
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, Spain, that Bergen was elected to host the Championships in 2017.
The city was chosen over
Innsbruck (Austria),
Melbourne
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(Australia) and
Bogotá (Colombia).
Bergen sent in their application by 1 January 2014. By that time they had put eighteen months of planning into the event. The total budget for the event is said to be 156 million
Norwegian kroner. Of this, 58 million kroner are earmarked to be paid to the UCI as an organising fee. The Norwegian federation president Harald Tiedemann Hansen ruled out paying more than that.
Norway had unsuccessfully bid for the
2016 World Championships.
Schedule
All times are in
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Events summary
Elite events
Under-23 events
Junior events
Medal table
References
External links
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Event pageat ''
UCI.ch''
{{World championships in 2017
UCI Road World Championships by year
World Championships
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International cycle races hosted by Norway
2017 in Norwegian sport
Sports competitions in Bergen
21st century in Bergen
September 2017 sports events in Europe