The UCI B World Championships were the
world championship for Level B
bicycle road racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and ...
and bicycle
time trials organized by the
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for nations with developing competitive cycling. The UCI B World Championships included events for both men and women in
road cycling and
track cycling. The first “B” World Championships were held in late 1997 in
Ipoh
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,
Malaysia. The event also served as a means of qualification for the
2008 Olympic Games
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
.
Both the road race and individual time trial events are competed by riders organized by national
cycling team
A cycling team is a group of cycle sport, cyclists who join a team or are acquired and train together to compete in bicycle racing, bicycle races whether amateur or professional – and the supporting personnel. Cycling teams are most important i ...
s as opposed to commercially sponsored or ''trade teams'', which is the standard in professional cycling.
The B World Championships were discontinued after the 2007 championships, with the Olympic places previously allocated through this event assigned instead through the
UCI Continental Championships and the
UCI Continental Circuits.
2007 Results
References
External links
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Results of 2007 UCI B World Championships
UCI Road World Championships
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