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2020 UCI Road World Championships – Women's Time Trial
The Women's time trial of the 2020 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 24 September 2020 in Imola, Italy. Chloé Dygert was the defending champion. The race was won by Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands, with Marlen Reusser finishing second, and Ellen van Dijk finishing third. Dygert had recorded the fastest time to the intermediate timing point, but did not finish the race, after crashing over a guardrail and down an embankment. The event took place on a flat course, starting from the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a motor racing circuit) before turning at Borgo Tossignano Borgo Tossignano () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna. Borgo Tossignano borders the following municipalities: Casalfiumanese, Casola Valsenio, Font ... to return to the finish line at the Autodromo. Final classification 51 cyclists were listed to start t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 UCI Road World Championships
The 2020 UCI Road World Championships is the 93rd edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It took place between 24 and 27 September 2020 in Imola, Italy. The event was originally planned to be held in the Aigle and Martigny area in Switzerland, but this was cancelled on 12 August in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. No under-23 or junior races were contested at the Championships; however, under-23 riders were eligible to compete in the elite races. Courses The road races took place on a course, starting and finishing at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a motor racing circuit). Heading out from the Autodromo into the Emilia-Romagna countryside, the course used two climbs with an average gradient of 10% separated by the town of Riolo Terme, before returning to the Autodromo. The men's road race would lap the course nine times, and the women's road race would lap the course five times. The tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Cecilie Norsgaard
Emma Cecilie Norsgaard Bjerg née Jørgensen (born 26 July 1999) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl-Trek. Her major victories include winning stage six of the 2021 Giro Rosa (now called the Giro Donne) and stage six of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Personal life Her brother Mathias Norsgaard is also a professional cyclist, with the . Norsgaard married cyclist Mikkel Bjerg in 2021. Major results ;2015 : 3rd Overall Rás na mBan ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stage 2 ;2016 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 6th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2017 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships : 2nd Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : UEC European Junior Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd Time trial : 3rd Overall Energiewacht Tour Juniors ;2018 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2020 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 1 Setmana Cic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikayla Harvey
Mikayla Harvey (born 7 September 1998) is a New Zealand road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . During her career, Harvey has taken one professional victory – the third stage individual time trial at the 2019 Tour de Bretagne Féminin – and won the young rider classification at the 2020 Giro Rosa. Career Harvey joined at the start of the 2019 season, having rode for for the previous two seasons. She took her first professional victory when she won the third stage of that year's Tour de Bretagne Féminin, an individual time trial. She finished fifth overall and won the white jersey for best young rider at the 2020 Giro Rosa. In December 2020, Harvey signed a two-year contract with , from the 2021 season. Her best placing over her two seasons with the team was fifth-place finishes at both the Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar, and the Tour de Suisse Women – also winning the young rider classification in Switzerland. She joined for the 2023 season, reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Barnes
Alice Wood (née Barnes) (born 17 July 1995) is an English former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career Barnes enjoyed success at the UK School Games in Sheffield in 2011, where she not only won the individual mountain bike event, but also rode solo in the relay, beating the fastest of the four-rider teams by several seconds. She joined the British Cycling Olympic Academy Programme in 2013. Barnes was selected for the England team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where she finished fifth in the mountain bike race. She also rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. She finished second to Lizzie Armitstead in the elite women's race at the 2015 British National Road Race Championships in Lincoln, becoming national under-23 champion in the process. Later that year she was part of the Great Britain team that helped to deliver Armitstead to the World Championship elite road race title in Richmond, Virginia. On the road Barnes won the opening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Kiesenhofer
Anna Kiesenhofer (; born 14 February 1991) is an Austrian professional cyclist and mathematician, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Kiesenhofer gained fame when she won the gold medal in the women's individual road race at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the first Summer Olympics gold medal for Austria since 2004 and their first cycling Olympic gold medal since 1896. Unfancied for a medal pre-race, she attacked in the first seconds of the event and soloed to victory, her pursuers mistakenly unaware of her position, in a win described as "one of the greatest upsets in Olympics and cycling history". Academic career Kiesenhofer studied mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology (2008–11), completing her Master's degree at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (2011–12). She earned her PhD at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia with her thesis on ''Integrable systems on b-symplectic manifolds'' in 2016. From 2017 to 2021 Kiesenhofer was a postdoctoral researcher at the É ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliette Labous
Juliette Labous (born 4 November 1998) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode in the women's road race event at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2015 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::5th Road race : 2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda Juniors : UEC European Junior Road Championships ::4th Road race ::5th Time trial : 5th Time trial, UCI Road World Junior Championships ;2016 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::1st Road race : 1st Overall Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen ::1st Stage 2b : 3rd Time trial, UCI Road World Junior Championships : 3rd Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships ;2017 : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska : 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : UEC European Under-23 Road Championships ::6th Road race ::10th Time trial : 9th Overall Tour of Norway : 9th La Classique Morbihan ;2018 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro Rosa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alena Amialiusik
Alena Vasileŭna Amialiusik (; born 6 February 1989) is a Belarusian road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 15th. She was announced as a member of the squad for the 2015 season. She also competed in the 2015 European Games for Belarus, in cycling, more specifically, the women's road race and earned a gold medal. At the World Championships in Richmond, she also won a gold medal on the team time trial with her team . In November 2015 she was announced as part of the team's inaugural squad for the 2016 season. At the 2016 Olympics, she competed in both the road race and the time trial. Amialiusik spent seven seasons with the team, before signing a two-year contract to ride for from the 2023 season. Major results Source: ;2006 : 7th Road race, UCI Junior World Championships ;2007 : UEC European Junior Road Championships ::3rd Time trial ::9th Road race : National Road Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Banks
Elizabeth Mary Lydia Banks (née Stedman; born 7 November 1990) is an English former professional racing cyclist, who rode for UCI Women's Continental Team until 2023. Banks took up cycle racing in 2015 after participating in bicycle touring and cycling to clinical placements as a medical student. She left her medical studies shortly before she was due to graduate in order to pursue her cycling career. Among her career highlights, Banks won two stages of the Women's Giro D'Italia in 2019 and 2020. In July 2023, Banks was suspended from cycling after returning an adverse analytical finding in a UK Anti-Doping test, testing positive for asthma medication Formoterol and diuretic Chlortalidone. Banks contested the suspension on the grounds that the positives were a result of contamination for which she was not responsible. In May 2024, UK Anti-Doping accepted her position, removed her suspension from sport, and stated they would take no further action. However, Banks announced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Plichta
Anna Plichta (born 10 February 1992) is a Polish former bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for five different teams. She rode at the UCI Road World Championships every year between 2014 UCI Road World Championships, 2014 and 2020 UCI Road World Championships, 2020, and also represented Poland at the 2015 European Games in the Cycling at the 2015 European Games – Women's road race, women's road race and Cycling at the 2015 European Games – Women's time trial, women's time trial. Career In September 2016 she was announced as part of the squad for 2017. Plichta was meant to join Belgian team in 2018, but the team was disbanded in late October 2017 when their title sponsor Lensworld's new parent company, LensOnline decided to not continue sponsorship of the cycling team. After it was announced that Nikki Brammeier would leave at the end of 2017 to concentrate on cyclo-cross, Plichta was offered the position on in early November 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenia Bujak
Eugenia Bujak (born 25 June 1989) is a racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's ProTeam . She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence for Poland, and has represented Slovenia in competition since 2018. Since turning professional, Bujak has taken thirteen victories, including the GP de Plouay in 2016 and nine national road titles – three in Poland and six in Slovenia. Major results Source: ;2012 : 3rd Time trial, Polish National Road Championships ;2013 : Polish National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial : Grand Prix Vienna ::1st Individual pursuit ::1st Points race ::1st Scratch ::2nd Sprint ::2nd Team sprint (with Natalia Rutkowska) ::2nd 500m time trial ;2014 : 1st Points race, UEC European Track Championships : 1st Time trial, Polish National Road Championships : Panevėžys ::1st Individual pursuit ::2nd Scratch : 2nd GP du Canton d'Argovie : 3rd Overall Gracia-Orlová : 3rd Winston-Salem Cycling Classic : Grand Prix Galichyna ::3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Williams
Georgia Williams (born 25 August 1993) is a New Zealand professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career She took up cycling whilst attending Albany Junior High School, where testing at the school's sports academy suggested that she was suited to the sport, having previously competed in netball and water polo. She took two silver medals at the UCI Juniors Track World Championships: one in the team pursuit in 2010 and another in the individual pursuit in 2011. Williams joined the team in 2013. She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2016, she was part of the New Zealand team pursuit squads that finished fourth at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In February 2017 it was announced that Williams would join for the 2017 season. She won New Zealand's second ever medal in the women's road race at a Commonwealth Games, a silver medal in 2018, after Susy Pryde at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Major re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Cordon-Ragot
Audrey Cordon-Ragot (née Cordon; born 22 September 1989) is a French former road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, but finished over the time limit. In the Women's time trial she finished 15th. In 2013, Cordon won the general classification of the five-day Tour de Bretagne Féminin. In October 2014, it was announced that Cordon-Ragot would join the team in 2015 as a super-domestique, following her fellow rider Elisa Longo Borghini to the British-based squad. In 2015 and 2016 she won the French National Time Trial Championships. She also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the Women's road race she finished 37th, in the Women's time trial she finished 24th. In 2017 she won the mountains classification jersey of the Women's Tour. In September 2022, Cordon-Ragot announced via Twitter that she would not compete with the French national team at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
