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1999 UCI Road World Championships – Men's Road Race
These are the results for the 1999 UCI Road World Championships bicycle race road race. The men's elite race was held on Sunday October 10, 1999, in Verona, Italy Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city municipality in the region and in northeastern Italy. The metropoli ..., over a total distance of 260 kilometres (16 laps). There were a total number of 172 starters, with 49 cyclists finishing the race. Final classification ReferencesResults {{DEFAULTSORT:1999 Uci Road World Championships - Men's Road Race Men's Road Race UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race nl:Wereldkampioenschap wielrennen 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow Jersey
The rainbow jersey is the distinctive cycling jersey, jersey worn by the reigning World Cycling Championship, world champion in a cycling discipline, since 1927. The jersey is predominantly white with five horizontal bands in the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI colours around the chest. From the bottom up the colours are: green, yellow, black, red and blue; the same colours that appear in the rings on the Olympic flag. The tradition is applied to all disciplines, including road bicycle racing, road racing, track cycling, track racing, cyclo-cross, BMX, Trials and the disciplines within mountain biking. A world champion must wear the jersey when competing in the same discipline, category and speciality for which the title was won. For example, the World Cycling Championship, world road race champion would wear the garment while competing in stage races (except for time trial stages) and one-day races, but would not be entitled to wear it during time trials. Similarly, on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniele Nardello
Daniele Nardello (born 2 August 1972 in Varese) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist. His career ran from 1994 to 2009, with highlights including winning the 2001 Italian national road race championship, the 2003 Züri-Metzgete, and three straight top-10 finishes and one stage win at the Tour de France. Career achievements Major results ;1990 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships : 4th Road race, UCI Road World Championships ;1994 : 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour ;1995 : 1st Paris–Bourges : 2nd Giro di Lombardia : 5th Overall Tour DuPont : 7th GP Rik Van Steenbergen ;1996 : 1st Milano–Torino : 1st Grand Prix d'Europe (with Fabio Roscioli) : 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a España : 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships : 4th Giro di Lombardia : 5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe ::1st Stage 1 : 5th Trofeo Melinda : 6th Japan Cup : 7th Tre Valli Varesine : 9th Giro del Piemonte ;1997 : 1st Overall Tour of Austria ::1st Stages 1 & 7 : 2nd Trofeo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Moreau
Christophe Moreau (born 12 April 1971 in Vervins) is a French former professional road racing cyclist. For many years Moreau was the primary French contender for the general classification in the Tour de France: he finished in the top 12 in the GC five times and finished the race as best Frenchman in 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005. He also enjoyed success in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, winning the race overall in 2001 and 2007. Early professional career Moreau debuted as a professional in 1995 with . He was a time trialist early in his career which brought him the victory in the Tour de l'Avenir prologue. He finished the 1997 Tour de France in 19th place overall. Festina affair Moreau continued his progression the following year when he won the final time trial and overall of the 1998 Critérium International. He tested positive for anabolic steroids at the 1998 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. Festina Team director Bruno Roussel defended Moreau by saying it was another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niki Aebersold
Niki Aebersold (born 5 July 1972 in Freimettigen) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI ProTeam Phonak Hearing Systems from May 2003 to 2005. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1998. Major results ;1995 : 1st Stage 5 Regio-Tour : 1st Stage 9 Rheinland-Pfalz-Rundfahrt ;1997 : 1st Overall Ostschweizer Rundfahrt ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 : 1st Stausee Rundfahrt : 1st Stage 9 Tour de Suisse : 2nd Overall GP Tell ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;1998 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Milano–Torino : 1st Overall OBV Classic ::1st Points classification : 1st Schynberg Rundfahrt : 1st Stages 7 & 9 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Austria : 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships : 5th Japan Cup : 7th Overall À travers Lausanne ;1999 : 2nd Tour de Berne : 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 7th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Velo
Marco Velo (born 9 March 1974 in Brescia) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer. Professional career Velo, who started his career with Brescialat, is a talented time-trialist, winning the Italian National Time Trial Championship on three occasions—1998, 1999 and 2000. Since 2002, Velo has ridden as a domestique for Alessandro Petacchi, first at Fassa Bortolo. In 2005, Velo wanted to go join Matteo Tosatto at the Quick Step team, but in the end joined Petacchi at the Domina Vacanze team, but when that disbanded at the end of the year, they both moved to Milram at the start of 2006. For the 2008 season, Velo moved to join Tosatto at the Quick Step team. Major results Source: ;1997 : 1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino : 7th Overall Critérium International : 8th Tour du Haut Var ;1998 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ::1st Points classification ::1st Combination classification ::1st Stage 4b (ITT) : 1st Firenze� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Richard
Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race Championships, Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993. Biography Richard was born in Vevey. At the start of his career, he was a successful cyclo-cross cyclist, becoming World Cyclo-cross Championships, world champion in this discipline in 1988. Later on, he switched to bicycle road racing, road-cycling, and showed a considerable talent for climbing. He won the classics Giro di Lombardia in 1993 and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1996. In 1996 he also gained Olympic gold after winning a sprint in a successful three-man breakaway in the Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, men's road race. He won the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia and Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France; he captured the overal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maarten Den Bakker
Maarten Jan den Bakker (born 26 January 1969) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1990 to 2008. He won the Dutch National Road Race Championships twice and he participated in nine Tours de France, completing each of them. In 2008, Den Bakker ended his career. He also competed in the team time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Career achievements Major results ;1989 : 2nd Overall Olympia's Tour ;1990 : 5th Brussels–Ingooigem ;1991 : 5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ;1993 : 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal ;1994 : 1st Nationale Sluitingprijs : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Brabantse Pijl : 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 10th Giro di Lombardia ;1995 : 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 2nd Overall Tour of Galicia : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 5th Züri Metzgete : 8th Overall Ronde van Nederland : 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th Brabantse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Tonkov
Pavel Sergeyevich Tonkov (; born 9 February 1969) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Russia. His talents were first showcased when winning the world junior title as part of the Soviet Union team in 1987. This alerted the world to his talents, and he turned pro in 1992 with the RUSS-Baïkal team. Professional career His biggest success was the overall win in the 1996 Giro d'Italia. He went on to place 2nd in the following two editions of the Italian race and all total he placed in the top 5 of the Giro on seven occasions. He also had two top 5 performances in the Vuelta and while he entered the Tour de France on three occasions he never completed one. He won the 1995 Tour de Suisse and the 1997 Tour de Romandie. He placed 3rd overall in the 2000 Vuelta a España. Throughout much of his career, he was a client of the controversial Michele Ferrari. He retired in 2005. Personal life He lives in Córdoba, Spain, where he manages a hotel. Career achievements Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Wadecki
Piotr Wadecki (born 11 February 1973) is a Polish former professional road racing cyclist, who last worked as the general manager of UCI WorldTeam . Team membership A professional from 1997, Wadecki has been a member of the following professional teams: Mróz(-Supradyn Witamin) (1997–2000), Domo–Farm Frites/Lotto Domo (now Predictor–Lotto) (2001–2002), Quick-Step–Davitamon (2003), Lotto–Domo (2004), Intel–Action (2005), and CCC Polsat (2006). Biography In 2000, Wadecki won 15 victories in races counted under the Union Cycliste Internationale's points scheme . On 15 March 2002, Wadecki was seriously injured in a final sprint in stage 1 ( Massa Lubrense-Sorrento, 124 km) of the 37th Tirreno–Adriatico. He suffered skull fractures and a broken wrist. When transferring from Lotto–Domo to Intel–Action, in 2005, Wadecki was ranked second place in the world. He had achieved a total of 32 wins thus far. While in the Intel–Action Team, Wadecki competed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Zberg
Beat Zberg (born 10 May 1971 in Altdorf, Uri, Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Uri) is a Switzerland, Swiss former professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Team Gerolsteiner, Gerolsteiner. In 2007 he became the Swiss National champion, winning the road race alone and over 2 minutes ahead of 2nd placed Fabian Cancellara. Later that year, he retired from active competition. Career achievements Major results ;1988 :1st National Junior Mountain Championships :National Junior Track Championships :: 1 km time trial :: Omnium ;1989 :1st Stage 1 Grand Prix Rüebliland :1st Swiss National Road Race Championships, Road race, National Junior Road Championships :1st National Junior Mountain Championships :National Junior Track Championships :: Omnium :: Pursuit :3rd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud ;1990 :2nd Kaistenberg Rundfahrt ;1991 :1st Wartenberg Rundfahrt :2nd Overall GP Tell ::1st Stage 8 :3rd Amateur Road race, 1991 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships ;19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Serpellini
Marco Serpellini (born 4 August 1972) is an Italian former road bicycle racer. Major results ;1989 : 3rd Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland ::1st Stage 4 ;1990 : 1st Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : 1st Trofeo Emilio Paganessi ;1992 : 1st ;1994 : 3rd Overall Hofbrau Cup ;1995 : 4th Chrono des Herbiers : 10th Gent–Wevelgem : 10th Trofeo Laigueglia : 10th Overall Tour Méditerranéen : 10th Firenze–Pistoia ;1996 : 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 4th Overall Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde : 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico : 10th Overall Vuelta a Murcia ;1997 : 3rd Tre Valli Varesine : 8th Trofeo dello Scalatore ;1998 : 1st Overall Volta a Portugal ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Giro del Piemonte : 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 2nd GP d'Europe (with Marco Velo) : 3rd Milano–Torino : 4th Firenze–Pistoia : 5th De Brabantse Pijl : 5th GP de la Ville de Rennes : 6th Giro del Veneto : 7th Giro di Lombardia : 9th Overall Vuelta a España : 10th Overall Driedaagse van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Boogerd
Michael Boogerd (born 28 May 1972) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the leaders of a generation of Dutch cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, together with teammate Erik Dekker and female cyclist Leontien van Moorsel. Career Boogerd was born and grew up in The Hague. In primary school, he was in the same class as later professional tennis player Richard Krajicek. He began his professional career in 1994, joining ''WordPerfect''. In 1995 the team changed name to ''Novell'', before Rabobank in 1996 became main sponsor and name for the team. Boogerd stayed with the team his entire career. His speciality were hilly classics like Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and the Amstel Gold Race in the Ardennes week and the Lombardian races in the Fall, as well as mountain-stages. He has won two stages in Tour de France (1996, 2002) as well as the Amstel Gold Race and Paris–Nice. He has been Dutch Champion three times, in 1997, 1998 and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
